“Culture” is an odd word to use about hockey; everyone says it, but no one can explain what it means. All organizations like to boast that they’re building a culture, but when it comes down to it everyone really only cares about one sort: the culture of winning. Sune is well aware that the same thing applies the world over, but perhaps it’s more noticeable in a small community. We love winners, even though they’re rarely particularly likeable people. They’re almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn’t matter. We forgive them. We like them while they’re winning.

Beartown

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles; or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”

Theodore Roosevelt

pour ceux qui errant

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

“We should be learning something always, no matter how long we live, or how long we play the game.”

- Frederick Russell Burnham