(Patrick Roy). Players will find their own ways to relax; parents and coaches need to plan times for them away from our game so they actually can relax. Just an aside: Many parents connect re-energizing with sleeping. The amount of sleep that your players get (more often an indicator of their commitment to the game than how tired they are) is critical to re-energizing, but not the sole factor. Time away to do other things, to take their minds off the game, is the real key. In a future article we will discuss the difference between the "Practice Mindset" and the "Playing Mindset." The difference is primarily found in the way that the players process information. It is the difference between concentrating on developing their skills and deliberately not concentrating (we call it "flow"). Here's the correlation: In order for players to re-energize, they need mental time away from the game, some time to put their brains on autopilot. Famous author Mark Twain said, "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." As I look back over my own hockey seasons, I am reminded of how amazing my parents were. Mom and Dad intuitively understood the cycle of the hockey season and the need for me to re-energize. I now realize that during the season my folks