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The Bloodline

Philosophy

For players to reach their full potential, they must make mental conditioning an integral part of their training regimen. By increasing awareness, harnessing your instincts, developing the right habits, and conditioning your mind, you will reach peak performance as an athlete and a person.

The Bloodline

Mission

Our mission is to enable good hockey players to become great players by unleashing their true potential through mental conditioning training.

Our Team

Vinny Malts

Founder / Coach

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Our Services

mindSET Method ™

Private Coaching

Keynote Speaking

Team/Organization Consulting 

Testimonials

I have been dialed in.

Jared S. | Athlete

I Know

Remmy M. | Athlete

It has translated onto the ice.

Ian D. | Athlete

My self awareness has completely changed.

Bryce H. | Athlete

I have a conscious mind.

Nick S. | Athlete

More confident and focused

Steve N. | Director of Yale Jr Bulldogs

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The system is built for comparison. That’s not The system is built for comparison. That’s not the problem. Every contract negotiation. Every roster decision. Every stat line posted online. Comparison is baked into the life of a professional athlete. That’s nature. You can’t fight nature. But mindset? That’s nurture. That’s where the work lives. Language is my offense #iykyk And the language I had to build for myself was simple: I am who I am. But here’s who I choose to be. Do I still get angry? Yeah. All the time. Do I still feel the pull to look sideways at what somebody else is thinking? Absolutely. The difference isn’t that I stopped feeling it — The difference is I catch it now. I hear myself mid-spiral and I pump the brakes. “Hold up. I’m in that mode.” Then I come back to what I actually know. What I’ve done over the last six months. What I’ve built over the last two years. I stop comparing me to someone else’s highlight reel and start comparing me to me. That takes real work. Because it’s so easy to go the other way. One thing to sit with right now: Do you actually know your nature? Not the version you perform — your real default #DYOR Because until you fully accept it, you can’t make a real choice about who you want to be👀 You don’t have to be different than your nature. But if you’re in a leadership role — as a player, a parent, a coach, a professional — the choices you make under pressure come back to you. Every. Time. So build your language #languageismyoffense Fight for your perspective. Because when the comparison comes — and it will — who you choose to be is the only thing that’s truly yours. #play4THATfeeling 🎥: @torrimedia
I think it’s important we pay attention to what I think it’s important we pay attention to what Jack Hughes shared here on the @patmcafeeshow I mean carefully pay attention to the #wisdom he shares here👀 He didn’t talk about the system Team USA played to win gold. He didn’t talk about the strategy they used to beat their opponent. He talked about the spiritual power of belief. What the leadership in the room believed — no matter what #THIS When you have a group of people with that kind of conviction and confidence in their hearts — that’s not the mind operating — that’s the human spirit #collectiveenergy The coach believed in “American swagger.” The GM believed “whatever it takes.” The messages were repeated over and over and over and over again #simplicity Because when you believe, no matter how challenging the conditions become, you are still operating from a place so deep inside of you, it overrides the thought process. It’s not contingent on the scoreboard. It’s a knowing. It’s… belief. Aka “the human spirit.” What do you believe in that much? Who you care for? Who you are? Who you can become? As Coach Lasso always says… Believe. It’s as simple as that. #play4THATfeeling
Building character requires stress. When you’re Building character requires stress. When you’re younger, as a high performer, character is easy. You’re dominating. You’re the best on your team. You’re a good kid. Of course you are…you’re kicking ass. Then you get to the pros. And suddenly you’re not the best anymore. Now everybody’s good. Now the stress goes up. Now you get squeezed. And that’s where we find out. What do you do when you get squeezed? That’s character. The squeeze looks different for everyone. A coach who doesn’t see your value. A veteran teammate who makes the room harder. Hearing someone talk about you behind your back. An injury that takes everything you built and puts it on pause. The squeeze comes in a lot of forms - and how you interpret it is what makes this so complex. What’s a non-issue for one person is a trigger for another. Same situation, completely different responses. That’s why mindset performance work matters. Because the squeeze isn’t going away. So the question becomes - are you developing the mental skills to handle it? Are you learning how to clearly communicate what you’re trying to make happen versus what you don’t want to happen or what you know is not healthy for you to happen? Are you developing this as a professional skill? Or are you learning how to down regulate your emotions and develop the ability to control them? This one has been massive for me over the years because in my younger years it was easy for me to lose control of my emotions #iykyk Or are you learning how to clearly identify what role you are choosing to play within the team and how to consistently show up as someone committed to that role you chose? This one alone reduces so much cognitive tension when you simply commit to who you’ve chosen to be for the benefit of others. Character isn’t about being a good person. Most of us are. It’s about recognizing who you are when you get squeezed - and whether you’re committed to doing the work to be ready for when the challenges arrive. #play4THATfeeling 🎥: @torrimedia
Imagine a world where these three things were non- Imagine a world where these three things were non-negotiable. Where clear #communication meant I’m going to make sure you understand exactly what I’m seeing, why I’m seeing it, and how I’m seeing it. And I’m going to work just as hard to understand yours. Not so one of us wins. So we find the best answer together. Where #emotional control didn’t mean suppressing everything. It meant I trust you enough to know that when I get heated, I’m not trying to hurt you. And you trust me enough to know the same. We’re allowed to have emotions. It’s an intense game. But we work at understanding how they land on the people around us. And we don’t destroy each other over a moment. Where #consistency meant I know what I bring to this team, and you can trust that I’m going to bring it. Not perfectly. Not every single shift. But the vast majority of the time, you know who’s showing up. And that’s enough to build real #trust on. Now ask yourself. How many teams have you been on where one of these three things was the root of what went wrong? Not skill. Not systems. Not effort. Communication. Emotions. Consistency. We can do all the work in the gym, on the ice, in video sessions. But if we’re not building the skill sets of trust, we’re skipping the foundation and wondering why the house won’t stand. That’s the deeper layer. That’s the game inside the game. That’s the root of human performance. #play4THATfeeling
First travel season with buhh and his teammates in First travel season with buhh and his teammates in the books😍 So proud of these boys and the effort they put in this season. To go from getting smoked by teams in the beginning of the season, to giving those same teams a competitive game by the end of the season, tells us all we need to know about their commitment to one another❤️ In a world where I hear many complaints about parents today, we were blessed to have an incredible group of families this year💯 Supportive, easy going, and fun is all any team could ask for. If any of the boys look back on this pic one day, I hope you know how special your parents were this season #family And when you have a bunch of beauty coaches and an amazing team manager to support the kids, nothing makes a season go smoother. Grateful for all the time and energy put into the kids this season from our leaders🙏 Without their loving and caring energy for the kids development, we don’t grow as much as we did this season #facts New season is around the corner already. It’s funny how this only feels like the beginning… Create. Effort. Force. Move. 67. The chain makes our memories unbreakable #iykyk #play4THATfeeling
He just shared the secret to unlocking mental spee He just shared the secret to unlocking mental speed through team thinking. Michael Phelps didn’t just train his body. He trained his mind to see everything before it happened. Three questions. A month before every major competition. What could happen? What do I want to happen? What don’t I want to happen? That’s not just visualization. That’s preparation at the deepest level of self awareness. Knowing yourself so well that nothing can surprise you. Nothing can shake you when you learn to know what could shake you #iykyk Now here’s the question I love thinking about… What happens when five players on the same team commit to this thought process together? Not just one mind preparing. Five minds. Reflecting on the same challenges. Anticipating the same moments. Building trust in a shared thought process. The questions don’t disappear. They evolve…and…WE get mentally faster. What could we face together? What do we want to happen? What don’t we want to happen? Suddenly it’s no longer five individuals preparing separately. It’s one unit thinking together. The communication changes. The trust deepens. The decisions get faster. Not because they practiced more… Because they prepared differently. Internally. Collectively. And what if everyone doesn’t buy in? What if only 80% do? In my experience, that’s still enough to change everything. Because 80% of a team operating from that depth of shared awareness creates a gravity. It pulls the rest in. That’s what most teams never find. And it can start with three simple questions that grow from I…into WE. You vs. you becomes we vs. we. That’s where team mastery lives. #play4THATfeeling 🎥: Visualization The Secret 8023
I’ve been running this #mindset exercise with pr I’ve been running this #mindset exercise with professional athletes for almost 20 years. It works every. single. time. Here’s why. Eyes closed. Arms back. A ball or a puck in the air somewhere in the room. About 80% of the group is nervous. Not because anything bad has happened, but because their imagination filled in every blank. Am I the one getting hit? How hard? When? Then I tell them to open their eyes. Suddenly they feel fine. They can see everything. They feel like they’re back in control. Then I throw the ball. And they still flinch, even with their eyes wide open, because they had no idea it was a softball or a soft puck. Different color. Completely different weight. And none of that mattered, because in their mind, they already decided what it was. That’s not a failure. That’s just how the mind works #DYOR Einstein said imagination is more important than knowledge, and he was right #iykyk But here’s the part nobody talks about: your imagination doesn’t care whether what it’s creating is real or not. It will build a story out of whatever information it has, and then hand it to you like it’s the truth. We do this constantly. We imagine what Coach is thinking. We imagine how the scout sees us. We imagine what our teammate meant by that comment, what the future looks like, what someone’s silence means. And we respond to those imaginings like they’re #facts The high performer’s edge isn’t eliminating this. You can’t. Your brain is always going to fill in the blanks. The edge is in knowing your own patterns well enough that you spend less time reacting to what you think is coming and more time responding to what you actually know. Reflection builds that. Preparation builds that. Thinking about your thinking builds that. Because here’s what I know after two decades of this work: The more you know what you’re actually going to face, the less power the things you imagined have over you. People who know their process think a lot less about their process. It’s as simple as that💯 #play4THATfeeling 🎥: @torrimedia
Happy birthday, my queen😍🥳😘 no amount o Happy birthday, my queen😍🥳😘 no amount of mindset techniques in the world can replicate the love that you create for me and our babies💯 #iykyk Have an awesome day, baby❤️

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