A Hockey Player’s Notebook

From the Minnesota Star Tribune, a profile of a college hockey player who is also a dedicated journaler:

Before and after every practice, every game, the Gophers goaltender hunches over a Moleskine not much bigger than his palm and writes.

Jack LaFontaine has five journals in all, each to collect different thoughts — practice focuses, video review notes, postgame critiques. Pages upon pages stained with blue ink, neatly slanted cursive that his teammates tab “English major-type handwriting.”

Jack LaFontaine had a breakthrough season for the Gophers and tracked each step of his progress in a series of journals. “If you write it, you do it,” he says.

Read more: Gophers’ Jack LaFontaine is a goalie by day, meticulous journal keeper by night

One thought on “A Hockey Player’s Notebook”

  1. It would have been nice to see some of his notes. I’m not a hockey player, but seeing how he recorded things and kept track of them would be interesting.

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