At age 8, at the family’s outdoor rink in Calgary, Logan O’Connor applied weights to his skates. The added resistance helped intensify his morning workouts before school. He liked it so much he often used the weights during team practices later in the day.
From an early age, O’Connor was determined to work harder than anyone else around him, according to his father, Myles.
And sometimes that meant pulling members of his own family into the training regimen, with his mother, Cathy, donning goaltender pads after little brother Owen decided he’d had enough.
“Hockey was on his brain his whole youth,” Myles said.