This offseason, Kiwi got to go house shopping in Norway with her cousin Viktoria and her son! Kiwi wanted to find a permanent home somewhere between North America and Sweden so she can quickly report to training camp for IIHF after a long SHL season. Norway was absolutely gorgeous. Kiwi ended up with a small cottage in a fjord and the sites are incredible. Viktoria and her (yet to be named) son were very helpful setting up her home and by the end of the off season she was able to have her 3 sisters Astrid, Ulysses, and Willow all came over for a house warming party. It was during the party than Kiwi got word she had been traded to Newfoundland. I guess the house in Norway was a good idea. Its a shorter flight from NL to Norway than anywhere else in America. Now Kiwi is buckling down and getting ready. This season its time to win it all.
Blade Hunter don’t mess around in the offseason. Rest? Yeah, maybe a little, but he’s all about getting better. He does a bit of solo training, working on his puckhandling and shootin’, just repeating the same drills over and over until it feels right. But when he really wants to push himself, he gets with the boys. He rents some ice with teammates and old buddies from juniors, just grinding out drills, chirping each other, but working hard too. This offseason, Blade got invited to some fancy bootcamp run by some ex-pro who’s all about hard work and it's like, real brutal stuff. Early morning sprints, nonstop drills, no breaks. Blade’s like, “Yep, sign me up.” ‘Cause that’s how you get better, right? You suffer now so you can dominate later. Ain’t just about skating fast or shooting harder—it’s about putting in the work. Blade treats the offseason like a battle. He’s coming back next season meaner, tougher, and ready to tear it up.
With international play and his first season in the SMJHL behind him, Matti has a lot to think on and a lot to get done. He didn't give nearly the performance he'd hoped for in either the WJC or in the minors, and to him that means one thing: time to train. He wraps up a short two-week stint at home in Iceland and bundles himself right back on a plane to the Americas.
His first stop is right back to his current home-away-from-home, Great Falls. While most of the rest of his teammates are finishing up business at home, Matti dedicates himself to the gym and to recruiting whoever's around to set up firing squads on ice to work on stamina and reflexes. Meanwhile, he's making some very earnest phone calls out east.
He hears back before long, and then he's right back in an airplane, this time trundling along to Toronto. His heartfelt requests for some ice time with the SHL goalie coach had paid off, and soon he's at the North Stars practice rink, aching and sore but hopefully a better goalie for all the hard work.
During the offseason, Ju-gong generally flies back to South Korea the moment he can, pending the IIHF schedule. For as much as he’s become Canadian and loves the country, his home will always be on the sunny shores of Busan. There he spends at least a few days with his parents, no training or fitness, just enjoying their company and catching up in person over some of his favorite home-cooked meals. After that, he’ll slowly start working in his training alongside seeing friends and family. With his friends, he will almost always include them in his training, letting his buddies from his amateur hockey leagues days take shots on him like they used to all those years ago. It’s always a fun occasion, and mostly joking more than real practice, given how rare it is that any shots go by him. Still, the mental reset is just as important for Ju-gong as the technical practice. In the months leading up to the season, he will of course return to Canada, and dial training back up to 11 for the season to come.
for my player offseason is all about retooling the mind. my player often spends his days studying philosphy and trying to understand his broader place in the universe. he debates the philosphy of mind with readings from descartes. he tries to understand the perspective of skepticists such as descartes but realizes that it is a boring and cyclical way to think. he tries to decipher the meaning of life but he comes to terms with the fact that it is a circular question and generally impossible to answer. after giving himself numerous existential crises, he is ready to forget about it all and go back to some hockey. now he is in the right headspace and does not want to think about anything but hockey. sure the thought of the size of the universe makes him seemingly unimportant, but right now he is having fun playing hockey and that is all that matters. he is living in the moment
Deth Klaw is a pretty solitary creature as far as relationships go. He does not have a significant other or any children. Will there be a Mrs. Klaw one day? Perhaps but for now Deth is content to live the single life. Klaw does love dogs, but he is simply gone too much to give a furry friend the loving home they deserve. Klaw is more than willing to dog sit for friends if he is able though and really enjoys getting to spoil someone elses pooch for a few days from time to time. And he will always pet your dog if he comes over to hang out. Deth is not super close to his parents, but he does visit home from time to time and at holidays. Klaw does enjoy hanging out with teammates away from hockey from time to time. In his free time he does love to hike and experience nature and he has a few buddies that he often hikes and camps with as well. (170 words)
“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. ... There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.”
It is best to always be surrounded by others and this off-season Cutter has been very social. After being drafted by the Baltimore Platoon in the SHL draft, it was nice to see that several other of his Kelowna team mates will be sticking with him a little longer. This along with meeting the much more experienced players on Baltimore have embraced Cutter and are guiding him in the ways of making it in the big league. While Cutter will spend another year in the J, having the support system will show improvements in his game. As always, Cutter is looking to improve upon his breakout season and is being looked at being a guiding voice in the Kelowna locker room as this off season. With this new sense of responsibility, Cutter is going harder than ever in the gym. He is the first to be in and the last to leave. Kelowna is expecting a lot more this season, and hopefully Cutter will be able to rise to the occasion.
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dieter frühstück is relatively young and chooses to focus most of his time on hockey, but he enjoys the offseason because it gives him a chance to go home and relax. he's single and spends his time back home in rostock with his family. he's always had a good relationship with his parents, who were very encouraging when it came to sports. they supported him no matter what sport he played, whether it be ski jumping, football, or hockey, and always provided for him even if money was tight. they also made sure to encourage him to focus on the academic aspect of life before he became a full-time hockey player. if his grades were poor, he couldn't practice, and while dieter was mad at first, he understood that good grades would give him the chance to succeed outside of the rink, so he stuck with it. he's thankful for all of this support, as it's made him into the player and person he is today.
My player, Leonard Wood of the Philadelphia Forge, spent all off-season with his family. During the season, he lives with his wife and son at his house in suburban Philadelphia. But during the off-season, he returns to Madison, Wisconsin where all of his folks live. Wood has a house there too. His parents live in Madison too but they also own a cabin in northern Wisconsin. Wood's summers are also spent up there on the lake fishing, boating, drinking, and generally soaking up the sun. He has an uncle too who owns a bar in Madison called Wood's Tavern. This location has been mentioned in media posts before. The locals watch all of Leonard Wood's games there. Generally, Leonard Wood has a pretty good relationship with his family and extended family. It's nice to have people in your corner supporting you every step of the way on your professional hockey journey.
02-10-2025, 03:05 PM(This post was last modified: 02-10-2025, 10:39 PM by ocho. Edited 1 time in total.)
The offseason is a great time for Greyson Willis to really slow down, take a step back, and look at the big picture. He's locked in during the regular season and focused on hockey, but once he has a little downtime he likes to remind himself that there's more to life than the game. There is still plenty of time for training and working out during the offseason, of course, and Greyson knows that. During the offseason he'll go back home and call up his brother Jared Willis, a professional football player, and train with him while they both have some free time. They definitely have two very different training methods though, as Jared is training to run through tackles while Greyson trains to glide across ice, but the brothers have fun and get a chance to see each other and hang out before they get caught up in the busy schedules of their respective seasons.
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