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Anyone care to share their opinion on this?
Are D1 and/or Pro players born or made?
Your 2 cents.........

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Discuss.

So far as I know they have all been born, however HAL is working on this!

Can't Never Tried wrote:So far as I know they have all been born, however HAL is working on this!

Figured that was coming

You have to be born with talent like mine. You can't develop my kind of skill...










Nor would you want to.

Can't Never Tried wrote:So far as I know they have all been born, however HAL is working on this!

Are you sure? Some of them may have been Hatched. And some D1 players come from Canada, who knows about them.

Ok I'll give you a real answer. Since you handle humor well!

I don't believe any players are born to greatness, they may be blessed with great athletic ability, but ultimately it is the hard work and the extra effort they put in because of their love of the game, their passion is what drives them to succeed.

If it were any other way they could just put on the skates one day and go!

The difference to me is the player that heads to the weight room, or trains in the off season, and does the extra things..these players have vision and picture themselves succeeding.

Self Made.............not born..that's my 2¢

God's gift is the talent. What you make of the talent is your gift to God!

if you're born with talent you can go somewhere.
you can also get somewhere because of so much hard work.
but the best players are born with it, and they work extremely hard to be the best.

Everybody is born with a ceiling. The best athletes are the ones who reach those ceilings or have high enough ceilings that they can get most of the way there and succeed. It's all about fulfilling "potential".

No one goes pro with out steping foot inside of a rink and weight room

The Best 4th Liner wrote:No one goes pro with out steping foot inside of a rink and weight room

Yeah ! and he's a 4th liner!

from my personal experience the D1 and pro caliber players are made. Size and cordination are a big part (and are born), but every player I have seen reach that level has tended to be the hardest worker on the team since mites. Those players push themselves harder, mostly behind the scenes, than the rest of us really understand.

It has to be a mix. You can just make a pro from scratch, but un-fostered talent will not prevail. You need a nice mesh of coaching and talent.

Ex: Not me

I think hockey leans more towards the "made" side than other sports primarily due to the fact that to become a great skater takes hours of practice.

Some players are born with talent, but i dont think players can excel without working hard. Example....Scott Foyt-2000 Blaine HS Grad.....he played on the 'B' team all the way up, JV as a sophomore, Varsity as a Junior and a Senior, and went on to play for the North Dakota Fighting Sioux

Brian Bochenski of the Anaheim Ducks also played "B" hockey in Blaine. Must be something in the water up there or else they have one heck of a B bantam coach.

Charliedog wrote:Brian Bochenski of the Anaheim Ducks also played "B" hockey in Blaine. Must be something in the water up there or else they have one heck of a B bantam coach.

Brandon.

MNsGreatest#2 wrote:It has to be a mix. You can just make a pro from scratch, but un-fostered talent will not prevail. You need a nice mesh of coaching and talent.

Ex: Not me

Don't listen to him, he's from Champlin...

Btw, Dan Hinote of the St. Louis Blues also played B Bantams I believe.

I would for sure say MADE..

I remember when we were younger, it would be all of my age kids in one end of the North Rink playin some Tennis Ball Shinny or whatever.. and down in the far end of the ice would be Aaron Ness and Jay Ness (father) and Jay would be teachin' Aaron things.

At the time (being 9-10 years old) we would have the "well if he doesn't want to play, then whatever then" but now we know what all those 1-on-1 lessons have done for him.

I want to say nice job to Jay for the hours and hours and years and years of work he has put in to help Aaron.

Made!