Option 2

The Diehm documentary is far from a complete story, but so far it is story of adapting and never giving up. It begins by discussing Marton's early attempts to succeed in non-hockey sports like soccer and handball, ones more traditionally held in esteem by Germans. Interviews with some of his early coaches reveal how he was guided towards hockey and his youth hockey coach, now getting quite old, details the work ethic that was instilled in Marton when he first stated. Having begun hockey at an older age than the other boys, his skills were at first a shadow of what others his age, what even younger kids, were able to do. He had to put in significantly more time and effort to catch up physically. But he had a mental advantage carried over from those other sports: he simply saw the game differently. The codified approaches and understandings of hockey had not been ingrained yet in his young brain, so Marton interpreted hockey movements as if they were handball or soccer plays, leading to often unconventional ways of interacting. The old coach is proud to say that he himself had to learn to let little Marton Diehm make his own choices here, that it would have been wrong to try to impose too much of the "right" way to do things on the boy. And though doing it his own way has not often brought the acclaim and recognition, it has clearly developed into an impactful and unique hockey professional.