Rick Tocchet: 'It's always going to be hard.'
As the Vancouver Canucks head into the 2024-25 season, head coach Rick Tocchet wants them to not just be prepared for pain but to welcome it.That’s the slogan that Tocchet is considering for the Canucks this season, a follow-up from his constant refrain of, “Meet pressure with pressure” from last season. “Embrace hard” was a central message of the Canucks’ coaches summit during the summer and he broke down the reasoning behind it to Sportsnet’s Iain MacIntyre.
In other words, the hard times and the struggle are inevitable, so the best thing to do is treat that adversity as a friend rather than an enemy. The hard times aren’t something to get through but something to accept as part of the process of becoming a champion. Perhaps “Embrace the hard” isn’t quite the right slogan for those with peurile minds, ie. most of us. Maybe there’s a different slogan they could use that would convey the same or similar message without sounding quite so lascivious.Embrace the suck Tocchet’s “Embrace the hard” motto might be inspired by the very similar military motto, used by everyone from the Marines to Navy Seals to the U.S. Army: “Embrace the suck.” It’s the same concept, meaning https://en.wiktionary.
But maybe that courage isn’t always on call throughout a long, hard season. There are times when you just don’t have the guts to do the hard things on the ice. Maybe you’re in a slump and haven’t been getting the results from executing difficult details, so the motivation isn’t there. Maybe you’re nursing an injury and are hesitating to block a shot or battle through traffic in front of the net.
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