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The TRUTH about life in the NHL...

20 Sept 2023 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (created/uploaded by James Laughlin) in which two speakers discuss the pressures of playing in the NHL. The speakers describe fear and anxiety around performance, the slim odds of making the league, personal moments of intense nervousness (“shitting my pants for this game”), and a remark that this is one of the first times such experiences have been shared on a podcast. A brief mention is made of someone named RJ.

Been playing the NHL for year after year after year. The odds of making it are slim. There's so many people struggling. Hey, I'm shitting my pants for this game. It was crazy. He's just like, I can't believe it. You wanted to be the hero. You know, you don't have to blow up somebody's candle. Yours isn't going to shine brighter. Right? You have to face your fear.
RJ comes in and went after it.
It's an anxiety. It's causing you anxiety. There's a lot of millionaires and billionaires that aren't happy. The fans didn't know was this is probably the first one of the first podcasts that this has ever been shared on.