Great documentary. It offers lots of insight into Alex's hockey life but for me it was a beautiful reminder of how important it is not to judge people. We never know the shoes a person walks. A dark side to early success is the pressure, expectation and critic that follows it. Congratulations to Alex for working through all this and for achieving happiness!
100% agree. He was 18 and the press was all over him. He ended up focusing on what really mattered to him. He enjoyed life in Switzerland, has a gorgeous wife, children, and spends time with them. At the NHL's highest levels, you sacrifice a lot of that. I'm happy he found peace.
He's actually a pretty likeable guy! And no you don't owe anybody to follow through with any talent you may have. You owe yourself happiness and doing what you want to do with your life.
Great inside look at hockey cultural differences, impact on young player drafts, expectations from media, fans, organizational pressures & constant competition in NHL market.
He's right. Nobody remembers who second is. Especially who was drafted second back in 93. That's a trivia question. But every casual hockey fan remembers Chris Pronger and knows who he is.
Alex we are all only human beings and we each have to go with what we feel in life. We will not always be right but that is how we learn and improve our life. If you are doing something you love and getting paid to do it then you are not working. Hating it is work.
@@TpsTerminator... LMAO... and you believed him... Lindros did not play for us because his mom did not want him to come... for a reason that everybody should know by now : culture. So to not come to Quebec because of Aubut is a total lie.
Daigle still had good stats with the Sens, before he left the team. Some people didn't remember how bad this team was before 1996, while the goals per team in the league was under 2 per game, in the mid 1990's comparing to over 3 right now. The actual Sens team is also way better despite the ranking.
It has to be pretty hard to carry the weight that was placed on his shoulders. In my opinion the biggest "what if" has to be "what if" an actual NHL organization would have chose and developed him properly. What if? Well no-one will NEVER know!
Alexandre Daigle (C) selected 1# overall by the Ottawa Senators.... And what tallents did the Senators miss out on in 1993? - Here are 30 players from the same Draft that had great to fine to respectable NHL careers and/or International sucsess. Arguably: the team "Winners"; 1. Whalers (3), 2. Nordiques (2), 3. Mighty Ducks (2), 4. Oilers (2), 5. Islanders (2) - The "Losers"; 1. Sabres (0), Jets (0), Flames (0), Lightning (0) 2# Chris Pronger (D) - Hartford Whalers. 4# Paul Kariya (LW) - Anaheim Mighty Ducks 10# Jocelyn Thibault (G) - Quebec Nordiques 14# Adam Deadmarsh (RW) - Quebec Nordiques 21# Saku Koivu (C) - Montreal Canadiens 7# Jason Arnott (C) - Edmonton Oilers 23# Todd Bertuzzi (RW) - New York Islanders 36# Janne Niinimaa (D) - Philadelphia Flyers 111# Miroslav Satan (RW) - Edmonton Oilers 118# Tommy Salo (G) - New York Islanders 39# Brendan Morrison (C) - New Jersey Devils 12# Kenny Jonsson (D) (underrated tallent that got career cut short due to many concussions) - Toronto Maple Leafs 5# Rob Niedermayer (C) - Florida Panthers 227# Pavol Demitra (RW) - Ottawa Senators 17# Jason Allison (C) - Washington Capitals 35# Jamie Langenbrunner (RW) - Dallas Stars 40# Bryan McCabe (D) - New York Islanders 164# Todd Marchant (C) - New York Rangers 71# Vaclav Prospal (LW) - Philadelphia Flyers 108# Mikhail Shtalenkov (G) - Anaheim Mighty Ducks 188# Manny Legace (G) - Hartford Whalers 156# Patrick Lalime (G) - Pittsburgh Penguins 41# Kevin Weekes (G) - Florida Panthers 174# Andrew Brunette (LW) - Washington Capitals 250# Kimmo Timonen (D) - Los Angeles Kings 58# Ville Peltonen (LW) - San Jose Sharks 72# Marek Malik (D) - Hartford Whalers 124# Scott Walker (RW) - Vancouver Canucks 24# Anders Eriksson (D) - Detroit Red Wings 28# Shean Donovan (RW) - San Jose Sharks
It's not the Market the problem... We're losing our reputation of National Sport... The development in America and outside are getting so much better while we're stagnant... The expectations and the medias are the final nails in the coffin.
These talented athletes shoot themselves in their foot. I worked hard at 5'10 but knew that I wasn't going to have a career in this game. So I focused on my education.
Goes to show you nothing Is a sure thing..except chris pronger was #2 in that draft and Scott neidermeyer #5 and kariya #6. Poor Ottawa, missing out on 3 franchise players including 2 stud dmen inc pronger who was an absolute game changer at the pro level including an MVP as a defenseman! And obviously smoothe skating neidermeyer who ended up being equally impressive
Lol. These sob stories from incredibly privledged people are always so cringy. They have exactly zero understanding how fortunate they were to live a sportsman's life, and to be compensated thusly.
He wasn’t privileged. His parents couldn’t afford to buy him new skates. No one going to turn down the money they were giving. Also I don’t think it’s sob story. What is a sob story are the hockey inforcers who complain in having to fight. If they didn’t do that they wouldn’t be making NHL momey
I didn't see this as a sob story, just a man looking back on his career while being completely honest about how he felt at the time and how he remembers it.
