Steve Mullin

For the first time since 2004‼️ @MaineIceHockey are Hockey East champs 🏆

@hockey_samurai This would have to be the legendary @MaineWHockey player @mmully88

Name a former University of Maine Black Bears hockey player.

Paul Maurice hoists the Stanley Cup and swears

3 rounds of playoffs. 9 total games. 6 elimination games Back to back championships! Congratulations to the Morden Thunder… doing things the hard way but getting it done! #theThunderrolls

As parents, we are raising a child not an athlete. If we focus on making our child accountable for being the best person on the team, not just the best player, he/she will get much more out of sports.

First home game of 2024 is on Saturday, January 6th against Notre Dame. Rumour has it there will be $5 beers available... Happy freaking New Year! #GoBombers

Coaching requires holding your most talented players accountable when their actions negatively affect the team. In preparation for the 2008 Olympics, Kobe Bryant, the Captain of the USA Basketball Team, started to play in a manner that was hurting the group. LeBron James and Dwayne Wade looked at their Head Coach, Coach K, and asked him what he would do about it. Coach K said, “I’ll take care of it.” He didn’t want to confront the legendary superstar, but he knew it was necessary. This is how he handled it…

sunday, we reclaim 𝐨𝐮𝐫 throne. #ForTheW | #ReclaimTheThrone

In Flanders Fields In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. - John McCrae, May 3, 1915.

I have a theory: When you conceptualize a team game as an individual game, you penalize your players. The player pathways for soccer, basketball, American football (and increasingly ice hockey) treat the player and their individual skill as central to the team process. We socialize players into believing the entire game revolves around them as an individual. They cannot perceive team success as advantageous unless they’ve hit their IPD goals. When players see themselves this way, the penalty becomes that’s it’s near impossible for them to fathom what great teamship might look like. (They end up having to learn this on their own as their bodies slow down towards the end of their careers). There are sports, however, which conceptualize the team as central to the game. Rugby and Aussie rules are two examples that come to mind. These pathways do individualize to an extent, but generally the players are socialized into believing cohesive team play is central to success. They learn this even throughout junior rep team selection and into the professional realm. It may be that the number of players on the field (15 in rugby, 18 in Aussie rules) means you can only take individualism so far, but it may also be down to how we’ve chosen to teach those games. This phenomenon also mirrors current Western society, where we’ve individualized so much that many of us can’t see that there are team needs all around us. Our cities don’t work unless we live as a team. Drivers change lanes without indicating because it suits them personally. Diners get upset when their personal food needs aren’t met immediately and with a smile. We’re losing our ability to form strong, cohesive groups, which is actually the super strength of human beings. Forming teams is what sets us apart as a species. Despite all this, the coaches who have created sustained success in the ‘individualized’ sports that I named have all done so by building selfless teams. They are a team first, not a collection of individuals trying to figure out how to team. Jackson’s triangle, Belichick’s weekly changing gameplan, and Guardiola’s total football are all conceptualizations of how a team plays. This gives me hope that even in an era of mass individualization, we’re not completely losing our super power as human beings. It is my belief that the best way to coach team sports is as a team sport. If we conceptualize the team as central to navigating the team trying to invade our space, we are best suited to being able to adapt and respond and problem solve. That is when any strong, cohesive group is at its best.

Time to activate the alerts for when @Paulsy_Tweets posts!!

Game 1 at the nest tonight! 7pm kicks off the battle of the birds! See you tonight @CarmanCardinals

Last Call!!!!

All Star weekend is here! The battle of East vs. West heads to Cartwright Game time is 2:00 pm Sunday Check out the link below for rosters ⬇️ ballcharts.com/teams/custom.p…

Joe Wiwchar, one of five Manitobans inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, threw out a ceremonial pitch at the Access Event Centre in Morden this weekend. Learn more about the event here! ⬇️ 🔗: pembinavalleyonline.com/articles/seven…

Get to todays game early as both teams will celebrate Joe Wiwchars induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame with a pregame ceremony

Join us July 1st at the annual ball tournament! We are accepting entries for all ages, more information below 👇

@mmully88 putting in another winter of coaching 2 teams, organizing a Provincial tournament and volunteering for other Morden Minor Hockey programs. Now serving as baseball registrar. If you see her, let her know that we still own a house she’s welcome to live at if she has time.