Gilchrist: Physical Limitations Do Not Disqualify Players If They Drive Wins
Brent Gilchrist · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · Jan 8, 2019 · at 22:06
Former NHL player Brent Gilchrist reflects on career skepticism regarding his small stature and how professional teams evaluate roster value.
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“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, whether you can score, whether you can stop a team from scoring, whatever it is, do you help the team win or not? And if you're five feet tall, but you help your team win, you're gonna be in the lineup.”
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