Everything Brent Gilchrist said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gilchrist: Montreal Media Favored French-Canadian Players Over Equal English Counterparts
“There's no question, amongst the players, there was no rivalry between French and English players, but certainly in, in the Montreal media, There was always a rivalry, and if a French player, I think, the way we felt as English players, anyway, if a French pla…”
Gilchrist: NHL Captains Function as Emotional Leaders, Not Executive Decision-Makers
“But in hockey, like, the captain's not making decisions, so he's not the leader of the team. He's the, he may be the emotional leader or the best player leader on the ice and in the locker room, but he's beyond the leader, the leadership of decision making, wh…”
Gilchrist: Elite Players Differentiate Through Peak Consistency, Not Superior Raw Skill
“I think the best players in the game, the best players in the world, and the, historically, the Hall of Famers, I don't think their skills are that much better than everybody else. They are better, and Circumstances, sure, they may be faster, better shots, bet…”
Gilchrist: Physical Limitations Do Not Disqualify Players If They Drive Wins
“You either can play and help a team win, or you can't. There's no attribute that's gonna say you can't do this. If you're small and you can't play, it means you're not good enough to play, and so everybody's judged on whether you help a team win or not, whethe…”
Gilchrist: Great Sports Teams Play for Teammates Over Organizational Branding
“That the front of the jersey the logo does mean less, and I think what means the same is your teammates. I think the great teams play for each other. They play for their team. Sure, they play for their fans. They want to make their fans proud, but if it's not …”
Gilchrist: Job Security and Public Optics Constrain Most Corporate Leadership Decisions
“He could make a decision and never worry once about his job if it was the wrong decision, and that's a hard thing for any leader, coaches, you know, business managers, is when you make a decision, it's I've got this decision nailed, but it's going to be viewed…”
Gilchrist: Scotty Bowman Benched Superstar Sergei Fedorov to Motivate the Red Wings
“I remember him sitting out Sergei Fedorov, like, one of the best players in the world, and Sergei had probably had a couple bad games which is not uncommon for anybody in the league, and I think Scotty decided to sit him out, and that was like, well, that's a …”
Gilchrist: Very Few Junior Mining Exploration Projects Ever Become Operational Mines
“Whether it's exploration, and we're not exploration guys, we're not, we look for assets that are ready to, or close to being developed as mines, and when you look at that whole sphere, that whole world, there's very few projects that are ever going to be mines…”
Gilchrist: Public Markets Ignore Mining Assets Lacking Massive Speculative Upside
“The market, the public market tends to ignore things that don't, you know, that, that they can't really promote to be something massive, right? When somebody puts their money into a junior exploration project, they want to see the potential to take your 10 cen…”
Gilchrist: Mining Development Always Requires More Time and Capital Than Planned
“Things change in the north, or change in Africa, or change wherever, and it always takes more time. So, it's very difficult when you do a feasibility, you put a construction plan together. Well, that's a construction plan, a constrained construction plan, but …”
Gilchrist: Commodity Prices and Macro Interest Rates Are Fundamentally Unknowable
“And there's not one person out there that I will ever believe when they tell me what the price of a commodity is going to do. It just, it's not knowable. And it's funny how the world is so fascinated by predicting and telling us, you know, we pay a lot of peop…”
Gilchrist: Patrick Roy Treated Every Practice Shot as an Intense Competition
“You just, you know, just even shooting on Patrick in practice. It was a competition. You didn't come down and just shoot. You really tried to score because you knew he would not want you to score a goal in practice.”
Gilchrist: Modern NHL Players Face Shorter Careers Due to Increased Pace
“The players today, they deserve the money they're making, and they're probably not going to make it as long as we did, because I see that the careers yeah, a guy loses a step, boy, he's not long for the NHL, it happens faster now they train harder, they're in …”
Gilchrist: Mining Projects Demand Extraordinary Initial Return Projections to Absorb Friction
“So when we look at things, we know that we're looking at extraordinarily high returns from the first view, because we know that those are going to be hampered as you get, as you dig into the, and the devil's in the details.”