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***Magenta*** · 02-14-2025, 07:30 PM

Option 1:

Going into this season, Jett Labyrinth has a lot of changes going on that forced him to train extra hard. It’s his first year in the big leagues so adding strength was a big focus this summer, as he’s going against the big boys now. Also, he’s making a position switch to defense which means he needs to focus on different skill sets he’s never trained before. Jett met up with his former defensive teammates in Newfoundland, Leo Finnegan and Weston Windsor as they taught him new techniques and approaches to help him with this transition. Heavy focus was played on shot blocking, positioning skills, and how to better read the game as a defensemen. He then met up with some of his fellow Aurora teammates as they tried to bond and form a little bit of chemistry over the summer. Overall, Jett didn’t get a ton of rest this offseason but he hopes all the work he put in will be for good use this season.

Z-Whiz · 02-14-2025, 08:15 PM

Puddles O'Duckling has a very rigorous offseason training program that he follows. It was started by his father, Puddles O'Duck, and he credits his future Hall of Fame career to the regiment he set forth for himself. It originally started in O'Duck's early years as just individual personal training, but it quickly spread into a camp for non-humanoid individuals who want to break into the humanoid realms of sports playing. So every offseason, Mr O'Duck invites all non-humanoid players to this special offseason program. Obviously O'Duckling was invited. It's full of drills and studying and tape review, but there are secrets that cannot be shared on this forum. Just let it be known, that any successful non-humanoid player in the league was probably at these training camps. Unfortunately, due to a very strict NDA, the exact drills and such from the camp cannot be commented on. Just know it's the bomb and watch out for O'Duckling when he gets called up to the big leagues (if @hotdog ever gets his head out of his ass)

***Reno*** · 02-14-2025, 09:05 PM

Option 2
Similar to how Nikola Jokic immediately goes home to his farm in Serbia after the NBA season ends, Willow does a similar thing and goes back home to Sweden for a few months to just catch up with her friends and family there. Willow is in a relationship with a retired Icelandic soccer player named Alexandra Gunnarsson who moved to Sweden after her career ended and now shares a nice little condo with Willow and their two cats. The best part about dating a former athlete is they know not to ask about “how work is going” after a series of rough games so its nice and peaceful. Willow still talks to her parents but they still don’t like the fact she left San Francisco for Los Angeles because when they visited her in the United States they liked the city more. Willow also likes to kick back and hang out with the local Counter Strike scene where she still runs some games and reminds everyone she could have gone pro there if she wanted as well.

***Valpix*** · 02-15-2025, 12:57 AM

During the offseason, Dejana Kaptina usually only trains with one or two close friends back home in Switzerland. She's not the most social person in the world, and she also feels like she would be training on someone else's terms instead of her own in a group setting. The elevation being an Alpine country is naturally very good for her endurance, and her being a junior player right now she's mostly working on getting stronger so that she's not dead on arrival when she makes the jump to the Buffalo Stampede next season. The hockey skills are better worked on in a team setting - it's much easier to work on passing and positioning when you're playing with your team and your coaches than it is when you're playing with a bunch of randos at a local rink. Her effort level really depends on her mood, somedays she'll be ready to run through a brick wall, others....

*NorwegianDemon* · 02-15-2025, 03:19 AM

Option 1: When it comes to training with other people, Nor likes to take a different approach based on what kind of training he is doing. When he hits the gym to lift weights, Nor likes to be alone with his training who will run him through all the exercises he planned from that day. When it comes to doing cardio, Nor usually likes to be with someone else. Nor does most of his cardio outside which usually consist of going for a run, riding a bike or running up a mountain. He likes to have someone else with him doing the same activity, because they can both push each other. Of course, when he is on the ice, Nor like to have a couple other players with him so they can run drills that involve passing the puck around and he wants to have at least one goalie. Nor will usually pay for the rink they rent and getting people to join for free icetime is easy.

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Raven · 02-15-2025, 04:07 AM

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Offseason is the prime time for your player to spend time with their family and other important people in their lives. Does your player have a spouse? Kids? Pets? How about parents and siblings? Other important people that are part of their daily lives? How is your players relations to them?

Honza Havran comes from a small family in the Czech Republic. His parents and younger sister all still live back home in Liberec and Honza mises them dearly. He has a fantastic relationship with his slightly younger sister Petra who is currently a student in Prague studying civil engineering. Despite some rough patches during his puberty, he now has a great relationship with both of his parents. His father Petr Havran is a baker and his mother Katka works as a guidance counselor for a local high school. While his younger sister Petra is still in school studying to be a lawyer.

Fun fact about Honza is that his grandfather on his father side is the brother of ISFL Hall of Fame quarterback Corvo Havran. Having a family member who has also been in the world of professional sports has been a great help for Honza, who will reach out to Corvo whenever he needs advice, guidance or just wants to chat.

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***Vandy*** · 02-15-2025, 04:08 AM

My player is still single but not in any rush to find "the one". As far as friends, when you grow up the son of a hockey player who plays for Buffalo then you have many, many friends including friends you didn't know you had. My player has like 4 close friends and 1000 "friends". My player's parents are still active and engaged with the league, with their dad as the General Manager of the Buffalo Stampede and their mom acting as the "team mom". I mean every team has a team mom right? Like I never played hockey growing up but doing little league we had at least two team moms who were always the "cool" moms. They brought the best snacks, cheered for kids whose parents didn't show up, etc. That's what I mean by team mom fwiw. My player's relations with all of the people mentioned aside from the "friends" is exceptional.

Gaia Mormont · 02-15-2025, 07:43 AM

Written Option 1:

Elvar Gil-Galad has always tended to train alone. The offseason is a time for reflection and thinking about what went wrong and trying to eliminate those mistakes the next season. The best way Elvar finds to do this to run. A cross between Rocky Balboa’s training regiment and Forrest Gump. Sometimes he runs stairs, and sometimes he just feels like runn-ing.

At the end of each day, Elvar will take some meditation time to find the head space that will allow him to be a superstar goalie in the seasons yet to come. If you can find inner peace while Altlanta is firing ten shots in a row at you, you can find inner peace anywhere.

Much of the boot camp offered by the Chicago Syndicate execs is aimed at power skating and stick handling, which Elvar has little need of. Maybe someday he will have the skills to play the puck, but for now, he’s happy to stay in the net and just stop the pucks.

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*bobdigi9* · 02-15-2025, 08:26 AM

Written Prompt 1:

How do they do it? Maybe they're born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline.
All kidding aside, the guys you see at the top of the stats page year after year have an inherent ability to take their game to the next level and keep it there.
The true greats, the generational talents like Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky, make it look easy. They slow the game down and make it look like they're not even trying. If only it were that simple for the rest of us mere mortals.

So what does that exactly mean for the regular folk? Making it to the SHL or any professional sports league is only part of the puzzle. For some, that might be enough. For others, the work is only starting. You can count Matviy Cajabi in that latter group.
And yet, for all of the hard work that he puts in year after year, grinding through the season and training during the offseason, he still hasn't come close to reaching the goals that he's set for himself and reaching the potential he and others believe he is capable of.

A turn at the most recent IIHF, despite the result, proved to be an invaluable lesson. Playing with a player like Dominik Winters, among others, gave him insight on what it means to be a true pro on and off the ice.
As for who he trains with, well, Cajabi has a wish list of players he'd love to get together and train with. Guys like Logan Webb, Jiggle E Puff, Tony Soprano and other beastly two-way players would surely be a benefit to be around and see what areas they target specifically to work on to enhance their defensive prowess. Get a group of like-minded players who strive to be at the top of their game and maybe bring in someone of Gary Roberts ilk to run an intense offseason training camp. Better get started planning and sending out invitations.

Until then, he'll continue with his regular training around the Blizzard facilities with the usual cast of his amazing Edmonton teammates.

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***JBeckQuest*** · 02-15-2025, 09:34 AM

Quazon Brosonchi would love to train all by himself. Seclusion and stoicism are part and parcel of a high quality off season in Quazon's eyes. The off season is a time to reflect, dig deep into the inner self, and come out the other side as an upgraded and battle-tested man in every way. This would be the ideal. The reality, however, is that his teammate and fellow draft class alum Twinkle Toes simply does not let that happen. He is all over Quazon, "Hey! Where are we training this off season? What are we doing? When are we going? Are we going yet? Wanna do some push ups? How about now?" Quazon may not come out of this off season as a mystical, stoic, chiseled, hockey playing beast, but at least he will come out of it a little stronger and with the ability to drown out all the noise and distraction around him. (155)

*JURT* · 02-15-2025, 10:26 AM

One very fun thing about being from a family full of hockey players is that we can all train together during the summer and then spend quality time together. The whole Söderberg-Tremblay family just gets to hang around in Sweden and Finland, with equally shared time because that is very important to avoid a divorce between the dads. The three triplets take turns in rotation training with one of their dads and their adopted older brother Matsmith. Gunnar makes them work hard on physical drills, improving strength and speed and endurance. Matsmith works the offensive skills, shooting and passing and puckhandling, while Jean-Uhtred is more focused on the defensive qualities like Checking, Positionning, and shot blocking (which he takes great pleasure in). Then, sticks in the middle to divide teams and it's a fun little game of 3 VS 3. Sometimes uncle RART comes around and helps them work their shots against a real goalie too, it's a fun family reunion.

Dextaria · 02-15-2025, 11:01 AM

Written Option 2:

Ville Sato-Maki had an early off-season this season as he worked his way through the first year of the SHL and got eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the eventual Challenge Cup champions in a four game sweep. Not the exit Ville Sato-Maki hoped for but this means he gets to spend time in the off-season with his parents in Vancouver, specifically his dad Ryosuke Sato, the former Winnipeg Aurora defenseman himself who won a cup on that team. The father-son bonding time is always a nice one for Ville Sato-Maki as he still trains hard in the off-season but can now hear more stories from his dad about his time in the SHL and how to grow mentally in the game entering Ville's second season. And as always, the father-son duo always grabs a good hearty meal together after the off-season training session! With that, Ville is recharged and ready for his sophomore season in the SHL.

Ragnar · 02-15-2025, 11:28 AM

Ongo Gablogian is not invited to any practice facilities in the Boston area, ever since “the incident”. With that said, he is also banned from any Applebees in the tri county area as well. So he has to make do with what he has access to. Since he hasn’t been banned from any gyms (yet), he puts a heavy off season focus on weight lifting and getting stronger. He pretty much reached his peak skating ability when he was twelve anyway, so he doesn’t really need to practice skating as it wouldn’t help. He can rip shots in his parents basement so he’s not too worried about perfecting his patented 35 mph clapper into the glass five feet above the goalies head. So he just slams Taco Bell and does tons of curls in the gym until he has a crazy bicep pump then he calls it a day. And he always skips leg day. He looks like an orange with two toothpicks coming out of the bottom.

Sigs by Me, Merica, High Stick King, Rum_Ham, Jess, vulfzilla, enigmatic, and Carpy

❤!! RIP to the big homies 701 and Mac !!❤

sulovilen · 02-15-2025, 01:37 PM

Written option 1

Jaromir Jagrbomb spends the whole offseasons back home in Finland, where he mostly trains alone in the guidance of this personal coaching team. His coaching team includes a dedicated skill coach and power/fitness coach. He has a home gym for all the physical exercises, and he rents a small rink near his summer house for the skill drills. He also takes part in some group practices on ice with some of his national team teammates from Finland.

Jagrbomb typically takes first a couple weeks off to recover from the season, and then starts working super hard until he has to leave for the training camp. Jagrbomb has two different training programs that he follows religiously. Typically from monday to friday it's fitness training in the morning and then skill training in the afternoon. Saturdays are for the on-ice group sessions, where they to some drills and play different kinds of mini games to maintain their game fitness. And sundays are purely for recovery. So far this has been working well.

Takk806 · 02-15-2025, 02:56 PM

Quote:Graphic Option 2: Create a family portrait for your player.

While Xavier Beausoleil doesn't have a traditional family per say yet, he sees his 3 dogs as his children.
(from left to right)
Nina, Chrono and Lubi

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