"Well, you have your regular classes, like three hours every other day, three times a week. You get twice a week to have an ice practice. Once a week you have weight lifting. It was great"
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Forsberg’s “It was great” lands with the deadpan force of someone who’s lived inside a system that sells discipline as privilege. On the surface, he’s just listing a schedule: classes, ice time, weights. Underneath, the bland arithmetic is the point. This is hockey development described not as some cinematic montage of glory, but as a controlled rationing of opportunities - a life broken into allotted hours where progress is measured in access.
The phrasing is tellingly casual, almost bureaucratic: “three hours every other day, three times a week,” “twice a week,” “once a week.” It reads like a training plan recited from memory, the way athletes internalize routines until they become identity. The comedy - and the cultural bite - is that the routine sounds modest by modern standards, yet it’s framed as idyllic. That gap hints at context: an earlier era of development (and a Swedish pipeline Forsberg came through) where structure, balance, and scarcity were features, not bugs. You weren’t training 12 months a year under a private skills coach; you were fitting sport into life, not the other way around.
His final verdict, “It was great,” works because it refuses to perform inspiration. No grand lesson, no brand-friendly grit speech. Just a quiet endorsement of a system that kept him hungry, kept him sane, and maybe, by not overcooking the athlete, helped produce one.
The phrasing is tellingly casual, almost bureaucratic: “three hours every other day, three times a week,” “twice a week,” “once a week.” It reads like a training plan recited from memory, the way athletes internalize routines until they become identity. The comedy - and the cultural bite - is that the routine sounds modest by modern standards, yet it’s framed as idyllic. That gap hints at context: an earlier era of development (and a Swedish pipeline Forsberg came through) where structure, balance, and scarcity were features, not bugs. You weren’t training 12 months a year under a private skills coach; you were fitting sport into life, not the other way around.
His final verdict, “It was great,” works because it refuses to perform inspiration. No grand lesson, no brand-friendly grit speech. Just a quiet endorsement of a system that kept him hungry, kept him sane, and maybe, by not overcooking the athlete, helped produce one.
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