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Brent Gilchrist

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“No, they don't need. I always said if I knew where the stock market was going or where gold was going, I'd be on a beach with my computer. I wouldn't need any of you people.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We do, and that's basically, I don't think you can actually, we always have a contingency in models, but it's about the margin. If the margin is so good that you know that there's going to be ups and downs, and then we haven't even talked about the price of the commodity, which Out of everybody's control, 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'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 people a lot of money to tell us where gold is going or where interest. It's unknowable.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can understand all the risks because some risk is invisible, otherwise it wouldn't be a risk. You'd know about it. And so you deal with it. And things get broken and things go wrong. But, you know, we think we're pretty resilient and we'll just fix it. It's going to cost more money. Sure, it is. We're going to fix it.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can you involve them in this project? And then permitting, you know, you can't build a mine on the mountain next to Kelowna, next to Okanagan Lake. The government and the community is not going to let you do that. Could be the best resource in the world. It's not going to happen. So those decisions, there's political, there's access decisions, or it could be at the 66th parallel in the Arctic, and that provides other challenges that are going to be more costly. It doesn't mean it doesn't work, but those all have to go into the model. And then you have to take some risk on that decision making, and there's no question that the business carries risks. Our analysis, we feel like we can't control the risk, but we hope to understand it. And then there's no place where you don't in any business that”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of times we feel like we know more about the asset than the seller, or we know more about how the asset should be developed. That's what we think we're really good at. What other decisions, many? So we have what we would call an investment criteria. And it's become for my team, they know it. It's second nature. We know what we have to look at the first five or six things. And then sort of thumbs up, well, this looks good. Now, what else is there? Jurisdiction. Is it in Africa or is it at 10,000 feet on the side of a glacier in northern British Columbia? You can look at many of the technical factors that go into making money on that resource, but how do you get there? Oh, you know, the First Nations community, are they favorable to mining? Can you...”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The way there would be inefficiencies along the way that we would struggle with raising all the capital that we needed, but the margin was so great that at the end of the day, there was going to be a good profit.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything you do, drilling blasting, everybody who's moving, hauling, and then processing, and then you also have this corporate office, the GNA. And every time something doesn't quite go right, those costs just rise. So when we look at something, we know that's a reality until you really get a mine operating efficiently, which takes a long time, and you typically takes more capital to get really efficient. 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 dig into the devil's in the details. And with our project that we bought in Northern British Columbia, we saw a massive margin in the extraction of that ore because it was a very, very high-grade silver lead zinc. And so we knew that there would be mistakes along.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I'll start with this comment. As I said before, like capital allocation or investment is just a real passion. I just love it. I love reviewing it, looking at it, trying to understand it. And I would say this, that the mindsight is one of the most incredible economic models that you can ever analyze. And I'm not a mine engineer or geologist, but I have an incredible team around me that has taught me so much about this. I am well versed on how the capital is going to go in, how it's going to be financed. So the economic study of a mine is incredibly because the minute somebody moves, it costs money. The minute you don't hit your extracted ton rate, it costs money. So you're always trying to say, okay, the tons are X and the amount of metal that's in those tons is Y. And when you're extracting it, you have costs on it.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the fees is sort of the granddaddy to say, hey, this is really reliable. But from a development standpoint, things change quickly. 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 and you put a construction plan together. Well, that's a construction plan, a constrained construction plan. But for a company to get to the construction even it's it could cost a lot of money whether it's permitting. So this is not always captured in the end result of starting construction, building it and then starting up a mine and having enough working capital to get it to cash flow. There's a whole bunch in between that.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So we don't have a good sample size for what we've done because I think you need a big sample size from what I call a feasibility study. So typically we start with a preliminary economic analysis. Pre fees. Then a fees”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To a glorious return. And it has to really look good when we first jawed out the economics because it's going to change. We're taking some assumptions in that point that we don't have all those answers to and our people have to go back in and start to do a deeper dive on On the Capitol and on the resource.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And once we dig into it, we have, like I said, we have a great team and we're really minor engineering focused. They will see, they'll look at the resource and say, can we make something economic of this? Can we actually build a minable plan here to extract enough of the metal, or as we say, we extract cash, not metal. We don't really care about the metal. And based on how much it's going to cost us to design and permit and build and then start up, can it pay back its capital pretty fast? And can there be enough life there to have a reserve tail that a financier in New York or London or wherever is going to be interested in? And we pride ourselves we don't do anything without a model, an economic model being built, and we take assumptions up front that say this is going to be economic.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mean all those things. You know, a lot of people call it distressed, but we're not so enamored with the word distress. We like stranded because sure the company that holds it could be distressed, but that has nothing to do with the asset and the value that we see or potentially see. But you're right. The public market tends to ignore things that don't 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 cent stock to $2. And that means a massive increase in the resource. We sort of come after where the resource has been somewhat defined and we think it's economic. Yes.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So well funded is the key. Nothing junior minor is well funded, whether it's expiration or we're not expiration guys, 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. They explore for a while, find something, but it's likely never going to be large or economic enough metal in a concentrated area to become a mine. So we look through a lot of stuff and we work for a lot of people. So we see a lot of the projects that are out there that could be what we call stranded.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And started at this company that Jeff and I said, This is what we're going to do, JDS Resources. And again, our strategy was it didn't exist. We just knew that we had a team at JDS that could evaluate, could design, could build. We could do any of them from cradle to grave in the right project. And something that was probably unloved and uncared about by the public market because we were going to stay private. And there is lots of opportunities out there. They're tough to transact on. They're tough to get aligned with whoever owns them. And, you know, I didn't know, and neither did Jeff how this was going to morph. And within six months, we were sort of flat out on trying to buy an asset. And it's been sort of hair back ever since.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And starting what we call today JDS resources, which is really just a company that doesn't hold a lot, but we look for our own opportunities. And that's sort of how we, you know, he approached. Yeah, pretty much. I mean, in natural resources, I mean, we'll look at other investments that we don't have something to do with if it looks attractive. We look at everything. But from a standpoint of us starting something, it really has to fall within our expertise. And it really is mining at this point. So we didn't know how we were going to do this or what we were going to do. So at the end of 2011, I sold my investment business.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so I obviously had a very good friend, Jeff Stibbert, who has built an incredible business called JDS Energy and Mining. And we were, you know, we ended up sort of in Cologne at the same time. He'd retired from running a big oil sands project, mining engineer and really good leader. And we ended up there and we became friends through, I think, our kids playing hockey together. And so we did some business together from an investment standpoint. And basically the businesses that I started and he started were sort of kicked off at the same time. His business grew really fast and he was interested in just more and he's always interested more. He's a serial entrepreneur and just a guy who just wants to do a lot. He approached me about, you know, leaving my investment business.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't know. I mean, some of the ones I hung out with for sure, but not probably not as many. So it was, I mean, I don't think you ever really understand or think you can get good at something that you don't love. And I have a great passion for it, the history of the capital markets. And that's the view I take, the actual management from a day-to-day basis because I still do quite a bit of that. It's not day-to-day. It's more big picture thinking. And I don't know how I got here, but it's where I want to be and it's what I'm passionate about.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's all about reading. Today I'm less of an avid reader because it's easier to get information quickly. So I read less books than I want to right now, but I do get sort of the gist of books by your podcast, you know, by freakingomics, by revisionist history, whatever it is. I was so passionate and still am about capital allocation, you know, how the history of the stock market, you know, what Buffett writes or says what Munger has written in the almanac, Malbashan.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So the decision was to move back to Canada. We had a summer home in my hometown or close to my hometown. We had a summer home in Kelowna, but really the same thing, same community. That I grew up in and played junior around there. And it was a bit of a natural to just say, okay, the kids are pretty comfortable here. The decision would go back to Detroit, which was sort of reestablished. We had sold our home. And so we said, let's give this a try. And, you know, I had friends in the business, in the investment business who said, hey, your office is ready when you're ready. So it was a natural, I had a good friend running a DS office in the Okanagan, and he said, yeah, let's RBC. And so I started an investment practice at Dominion Securities.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Season? Well, so I think I was very conscious of where I was and I was very conscious that I didn't want to hate my last season. I wasn't physically that healthy. And so it was a grind. It was grueling even only playing 41 games. And I also didn't want to hate what I was doing. I was trying to be conscious of where I was, how great a life I'd led in the National League. And I was still playing with NHL. And so I did not want to regret one minute of it. And so I was conscious to be careful of that. So I didn't, I just, I enjoyed, I accepted the role, not every day. Maybe they're all frustrated me a few times that, you know, barry trouts would come and say, Brent, you're not playing. I really respected Barry. You know, he'd come to me every day and say, you're not going to play today. But he had, you know, I felt like he had a real respect for me as a player. And he was a real good guy to play for. So I think your question back to what was that September like, I think the transition.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I don't think so. I think I hadn't a good season. Like I played really well, but I think I was a useful player for the Predators in terms of some experience and filled in when they needed. We didn't make the playoffs that year, and I think we could have. They made the playoffs the next year. So I don't think it was one year too many, but I think it was that was it. I was done. I knew it, and it was time to move on.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not really because I really didn't seek out that direction because I knew that, well, two things. I knew that there wasn't a team out there that was looking for a 36-year-old 178-pound slowing forward. Yeah, that scored one goal the previous season. And secondly, I knew I was done. I knew that the speed and the size of the players was starting to look like I wasn't feeling out of place. So there was a total reality to that. I was not kidding myself.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's still in Detroit at that time. I did, and that was a decision. So, my last season we played in Nashville, and we left Detroit, and it probably broke us away from the city of Detroit, which was a great place to live. And we enjoyed it there. And we could have stayed and lived. We had lots of friends there, lots of contacts, and we really liked the community, believe it or not. And for a lot of Canadians, that's like, really? Detroit? Yes, a really good place to live, real good community, good schools, and where we lived anyway. Obviously, the city of Detroit has its own challenges, which is getting better. But so the decision was we were in Nashville, which was not a place that we really had any attachment to. And it was a very nice city. We really enjoyed the season we played there. And I obviously wasn't going to play. I retired, but I was going to be told I was going to retire too. I maybe could have went to Europe, but I was not going to get another contract in the NHL, and I was 36.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Focus that I want her to start on an investment practice right away when I retired. So immediately I went into all the licensing from the securities exams to options trading everything I was getting all the licenses behind me”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was feeling pretty good. You know, obviously there was some anxiousness, but it was, you know, I'm not that anxious certainly on the outside. But, you know, you're second guessing yourself. I think one of the things that helped me transition is I had a real focus. I knew exactly what I wanted to do probably five or ten years before I retired. And I wanted to be in the investment business. I've always been, was always fascinated with capital allocation. I was learning, self-taught is maybe the wrong word, but in terms of, you know, formal education, self-taught, but would hang around a lot of people that did that for a living, that allocated capital, that managed money. And doing it with my own money. And so I had a”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. That's one thing I look at all the time because people ask me Because we were paid a lot more than the generation before us. And that's just what it is. And 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 couriers. Yeah, a guy loses a step, boy. He's not long for the NHL. It happens faster now. They train harder. They're in better shape. They're bigger and faster. And when you stumble a little bit, I think your career ends faster. But anyway, I was in a, I think every era was a great era. And I certainly wouldn't change the era I played and things did change a lot from 1988 to 2003. Maybe one of the biggest changes from start to finish in terms of money and business that the game has seen.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Career that it mattered, that he could make any decision. I remember him sitting out Sergey 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 scary decision for most coaches. And of course, it worked because everybody stood up and went, wow, like he can get back. Exactly. So of course, you know, the team reacted very well and Sergei came back in the lineup the next game or whatever. But those are things that most coaches and certainly a young coach, I doubt, would sit on a superstar.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thought was right, and you might think that was crazy, you know, like he would do things that other coaches I don't think would do. I think part of that was his success where he was in his career because I played for him when he was in his 60s or even his mid-60s and he could make a decision and never worry once about his job if it was the wrong decision. That's a hard thing for any leader, coaches, you know, business managers is when you make a decision, I've got this decision nailed, but it's going to be viewed in the public like a bit off the wall. And if it goes wrong, you're risking, and we see that every day, whether it's the prime minister or the country or the leader of the royal bank, they make decisions and sometimes we know their decisions are affected by what the public is going to see. And I don't think Scotty was at a point.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's probably harder to describe. So I'll just go through those two. But Pat was a great coach, but he was, I think Pat and I had a good relationship because he coached me when I was playing in the American League. And he definitely was, you know, I had more rapport with him. I could speak to him more than a lot of the other coaches I didn't know as well. And he was a real fiery guy, real passionate, loses temper a lot, but you knew his bark was way worse than his bite. So the players trusted him. And I think that was Pat. And he wore everything on his sleeve, right? So you knew where you stood with him and you knew when he was probably going overboard because he was just such an emotional guy, but really, really great person. Scotty, so I'll skip right to Scotty because he fascinates everybody. One thing I think I recognize with Scotty is he would make any decision that he...”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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 about the 20 guys in the locker room that you'll go to bat for, you'll go to war for, you'll fight for, all those things, that's what maintains the team. The logo has to mean less today with 31 teams and probably 32 shortly versus six and then 12. And then when I came in the league, it was probably 21, but there was still those franchises that were the original six. And I was fortunate to play for two original six teams and have lots of success, obviously Montreal and in Detroit. And I think the logo, the Jersey meant something more because there was so much history to it. But at the end of the day, it's your teammates.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think so plain for Montreal in those days and I don't know the modern day. You know, it was the New York Yankees, it was all those things and you believed in everything that was happening here. And you just didn't think there was another place to play. Like this was the place. And I'm sure there was other players feeling about that about their own team. As my career, as you get more experienced, what I think great teams become is, and in today's modern game where you have a team in Las Vegas that has no history but lots of success, all these different teams. So I do believe this, that the front of the jersey, the logo does mean less. And I think what means the same is your teammates.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“French Canadian girl born and raised here in Montreal. So I went to her office and she knew something was wrong because I'd never been to her office before. So yeah, that was a tough one to tell her that I'd been traded. And in effect, we've been traded.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was actually at the forum in the gym working out. And I want to say that the Rolling Stones were in town, and Carolyn and I were on our way with friends to see the Rolling Stones at Olympic Stadium I'm pretty sure it was the same night. And so I was working out having an afternoon workout. The forum was always open to us and I spent the summer here. So I was working out and Sir Savarda apparently was trying to call me and Jacques Demaire said, just taken over from Pat Burns as our coach and I hadn't played for Jacques yet. And he walked into the gym because somebody told them upstairs that I was in the gym. He walked in and he said, Brent, I got to talk and he pulled me in his office. He says, this is very difficult for me because we don't know each other well and you haven't played for me yet, but you've been traded to the Edmonton Oilers for Vincent Damfus. He says, you and Shane Corson. And yeah, it was a tough one. And one of the toughest things was my wife working. She just finished her law degree and she was working downtown here articling at a law firm. And that was going to be a tough one. Born and raised.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I was here in Montreal. I spent the summer in Montreal with my soon-to-be wife at the time, Carolyn. And that was devastating, to say the least. I'd never been traded as a junior or as a pro. And I don't have any tattoos, but if I did have one at that time, it would have been the CH, was drafted by them and loved living in the city, loved playing for the team. We're a good team. And, you know, my teammates, we were so close. And to get traded was really difficult. Never thought I'd leave Montreal. Of course, that's a young player that doesn't quite have a reality on the business. And once it happened, you sort through it and you pick yourself up.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure, and I don't think it mattered to me. Like, I don't think I, you know, if somebody said, because I think not just small players, but, you know, a big player, you know, they're probably saying, well, he's too slow to play in the National League. And so it wasn't something I was worried about. But when I hear somebody sees too small to play, he's not. Nobody is. Everybody has skills and then they have, you know, they have things that are going to hold them back. There's just not perfect players out there typically. Maybe, you know, maybe there's a few. But you're too slow. You're not tough enough. Everybody's fighting against something that's their weaknesses. And you're small or you're big or you're slow or you're, you know, or you're not that tough. So they say you either can play and help a team win or you can't. There's no attribute that's going to say.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Appreciate the wear and care that it's harder for them. I think Sydney, I mean, those players are so strong. Physically, they're just very gifted not only in their talent, but they're very, very strong athletes. No, it's a bit harder, but it doesn't mean, you know, people, I remember I was too small to play in the NHL. It was told, you know, I heard that many, many times.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think we have to respect them more because they're smaller, they're just so good. I mean, definitely they're amazing.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm small for a pro. I played at about 180 pounds, maybe a little less. A little heavier now, unfortunately. And so that's, you know, the strength and the size that you're up against is it can be grueling or it is grueling. And I think it's harder for smaller players when they do get hurt to withstand continue to play injured. And the bigger guys are just stronger. They're more able, in my opinion, to accept more punishment. And that's just a simple fact.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“82 now it's been through my career had it had it been 80 and then 82 and then 84 and then back to 82 so it's you know for a player my size it was always a challenge to to maintain your health and if you”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, again, I don't think I rationalized it or really gave many thoughts about it. Maybe early on. Yeah, just like, okay, I'm in the lineup tonight. That's number one. And I'm playing left wing. And on that team, there wasn't a bad... Position to be in. If you got in the lineup, every player around you, for me at that point, certainly was wow, this player is fantastic. That player's fantastic. And we had a very deep team. So all our lines were very good. We may have lines that were scoring or more defensive, but all the players could, they were great players.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My career, more penalty killing, lots of times in a defensive role, but other times, you know, I got the opportunity to play on a more offensive line. And being able to play those three positions without really any difference to my game helped me a lot. So that was a blessing.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On the right wing. And I would bounce back and forth between center, right wing, and left wing. And what I didn't realize it was going to be such a blessing for me that we had four incredible centers in Montreal in the late 80s and that it was going to be tough for me to play center regular. But when somebody was hurt, I typically got the chance to play center. So the blessing was is I became a player that could play in could play all three positions. I'm not saying that guys can't, but maybe in those days it was a little more structured and almost had a utility to my game that helped me play a long career. Playing 15 years is not easy at my size and, you know, my offensive output was not always stellar. So you're right. You find the role and my role actually was not singular. And I was able to play power play through.”
2019-01-08 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't know that it was tough. I think it was a progression. And I don't know if acceptance is the right word, but I came up in Montreal. I was not a regular player. My rookie season, I think I played 49 games. And you're always trying to get in the lineup. I don't think it was difficult. I think you're fighting so hard to find that position and find that role. I think that's more what it is. Pat Burns was my coach and he coached me the year before in the American League. And all of a sudden, what I realized that I was, I might not be a centerman in the NHL, and I was always a centerman. I never played anything else as a kid. When I was really, really young, you played other positions, but always played center. So all of a sudden, I found myself on the left wing. I thought, well, this is interesting. And then I found myself.”
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“As well as you can, yeah, and you just can't maintain it. I think that's a lot of times the difference between the great, great players is they maintain their highest level at a very consistent basis and the rest of us struggle to do that. So, you know, we all grew up being the best players on our team or in our community. And the air gets thinner up there. But it's great. It's such a great life. And you look back and I don't think about the things that were really hard, the injuries and sometimes the stress of being a player and trying to maintain your position in the travel. I really don't think of back like that. I think of how great it was to live that life and play the game.”
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“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 in circumstances. Sure, they may be faster, better shots, better pop handlers. But I think it's their ability to make, to achieve the highest level of their abilities consistently. And that's the hardest thing to do. The competitiveness of playing your back.”
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“Fighting for your job every day, maybe not the superstars, or maybe not in sort of the prime of your career, you're not thinking about that as much, but when you're younger and older, you're trying to keep your job. And that is a daily exercise that you have to work very hard at. And you're always trying to play your best. And we all, you know, as players, I think that we all think of ourselves as the best game we ever played or the best season we ever played. That was how good we are. That's the standard. That's how good we were, or I was. But you don't sort of couple it all up with the bad season and the bad games. And so it's always a struggle to play at your best. And I think the best players in the game.”
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“Yeah, so I don't have the secret, and I don't think any of us do. As a kid, all I wanted to do was play hockey. And I think, you know, my teammates and my colleagues were probably very similar to me. More Canadians when I came up in the league and now as my career progressed, obviously lots of Europeans, lots of Russians, all the best players in the world, the league just kept getting better. So what fans don't see, I think it's you can be fairly typical on what they don't see, the travel's tough, the work, you know, the toile on your body, how hard it is every day. And probably what one doesn't think about as much is just the stress and the emotional toll. And so it's very, very competitive. The league's competitive, but also your team is very competitive. So you're...”
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“You know, I think everybody's competitive and the goalies are super competitive, but I just saw their goalies preparing if they were practicing, they were practicing some things, and they weren't going to kill themselves to stop a fucking practice. I don't say that it's right or wrong. You know, a practice is practice. I just remember that when Patrick was in the net during warm-up of practice, he really was focused on stopping the puck and he was real competitive. It was a lot of fun, but not to a, he wasn't overdone or nasty about it. He was really competitive.”
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