Started the day off today at the Men’s game rink, we were fairly busy from the get go Jagr was in getting his skates sharpened he is a great guy and had all of us laughing. He decided to give the FBV a shot and loved it. He had one goal and an assist to lead the team to a victory.
I did an interview with Eurosport which is European sports channel (Canadian TSN) It was an interesting interview as I spoke English and they did no, should make for a great segment. They wanted to know about the new technology and what we were doing to help out the player’s it was actually pretty fun to do the interview and they had fun because we had some pretty high profile players in the room while they were shooting. We have most of Latvia and Belarus on the new cut so the equipment manager’s were down trying to find out what all the player’s were talking about. It was a lot of fun because we had to speak through an interpreter in order to get the point across. They were really impressed and said that the player’s wanted to buy a machine for the team. It’s funny how it works in other countries.
Mike from Team USA made a decision to use our machine to sharpen all of the USA player’s skates, so he was in the room for a while and we really enjoyed his company. It was nice to have him there talking up the FBV he says that half his team is on it which validated it for a lot of the players. I got to see how much respect he has with the players.
It really is exciting to see the athletes and to see the passion they have for their sport. The care that they take in their equipment and the level of intensity they have to learn about new things to improve their game. The days are long but the time is going by very quickly. Talk to you tomorrow, thanks for reading.
3 comments:
well it sounds like someone had an great day..Good for you steve,and by the way glad you got a picture of sid,i heard he is swamped everywhere he goes,the sistahs are happy...Sue.
Not Sid. I will work on one for you. When he is down here he is not swamped with people. Sorry for the late day 3 I was swamped and had no internet.
It's great to hear more and more elite players are embracing the FBV. I'm curious to know what cut most of them are using with perhaps a few examples like Jagr. 90/75, 90/50?
The behind the scenes blog is interesting. It's great you're taking the time to post. Hopefully you'll get a chance to see some more of the great games live as opposed to mainly on TV.
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