Does the Czech hockey enclave maintain collectively within the NHL, or is there competitors there too?
We had been fortunate that the boys from Kladno, with whom I grew up and performed from a younger age – Jirka Tlustý, Ondra Pavelec, Michael Frolík or perhaps Radek Smoleňák – actually performed there. We preserve it with us on a regular basis.
And did you truly expertise Jarda Jágra there?
I performed with Jarda Jágr when he got here again to Philadelphia, so we met there. We had been neighbors.
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Is it true that his girlfriend on the time cooked for you?
Additionally, Ina cooked and helped me. I’ve such a shaggy dog story. We performed the match from one o’clock, Jagr was injured and went to coaching early within the morning. Ina says: come at half previous ten, I am going to prepare dinner you some spaghetti, as a result of this system is so damaged at that one o’clock. I say, yeah. So I got here upstairs, Ina was cooking spaghetti in a bathrobe, I am sitting on the desk, out of the blue Jágr is available in and says: you, what is going on on right here?
However we loved it. It additionally occurred to me as soon as that I got here with a teammate from such a celebration, we performed songs at about half previous three within the morning. And Jagr got here to our home, carrying a beanie, jacket and sneakers. I got here from the bar and he was simply going for a run. I believed I should be making a mistake someplace.
Numerous gamers succumb to the strain
Jakub, there are dad and mom who ship a boy to hockey with the concept that he’ll play within the NHL, that he’ll earn cash and safe it for the remainder of his life…
And that is fallacious when dad and mom are filled with goals for his or her kids. Youngsters ought to be kids and develop as kids, whether or not in crew or particular person sports activities. Then, after all, if attainable, give him the very best circumstances.
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As soon as the dad and mom go into it with the clear purpose of him incomes a residing from the game, it not often works out so far as I can keep in mind.
These days, I believe dad and mom stick to at least one sport and do it for 12 months straight, however the youngster would not develop in any respect. A toddler ought to be a toddler, transfer as a lot as attainable, within the best attainable vary of sports activities, in my view. Then, when it begins to mature at 12-14 years previous, then it may be chosen. But it surely’s a disgrace that oldsters typically go loopy about it.
You had a crush in your dad and mom.
Huge, I preserve saying that. My father saved me, you may say, all the time on the identical line, he by no means pushed me utterly anyplace, he all the time gave me recommendation when he might.
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However when issues went nicely – I used to be by no means a slob, however after I had indicators that I used to be doing nicely and I used to be so sovereign – he saved me grounded. Then again, when it did not work, he all the time supported me that it might work once more.
This is essential in life. Then within the NHL, the strain is admittedly massive. If you’re making sufficient cash, when issues aren’t going nicely, loads of gamers succumb to that strain. And I all the time knew it might work, I by no means thought it would not work. That is the results of the upbringing of my dad and mom, for which I’m grateful to them. I believe I’ve realized to make use of it in regular life as nicely, that retaining the center line is essential.
You have not earned somewhat cash, but you do not splurge on some flamboyance. A boy is sitting right here in a T-shirt, shorts and slippers. Did you by some means study monetary literacy so that you would not find yourself like some hockey gamers who did not fairly succeed?
Simply because I am sitting right here in a t-shirt and shorts does not imply I have never accomplished shit in my life, it is simply that nobody is aware of about it. You study from errors all of your life, there have been errors in adolescence even after I used to be earning money. Thank God, the cash was a lot that I am nonetheless doing nicely.
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