Returning to his high school which he recently graduated from before being drafted and heading to America to play professional hockey. Adrik Baranov gives a passionate speech is about never assuming that you’re entitled to anything and to always try your hardest, even if you don’t think you really need too. “Hard work is always key” He tells the kids how arrogant and entitled he was growing up and playing hockey. How because he comes from one of Russia’s ‘hockey families’ that he never had to try very hard. That he was always entitled to being the best of everything regardless of if someone else on the team worked harder for it and how this high opinion of what he was entitled too changed as he watched player after player being promoted a head of him on the teams he was on. He says all eloquently, happy to be speaking in his native Russian rather than stumbling through English words like he does when he’s back with his team in America.

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