Who Is Shayne Stevenson Anyways?

December 6, 2011

Who Is Shayne Stevenson Anyways?

As a young boy growing up in Canada, l can still remember watching Hockey Night in Canada every Saturday night.  Like most other children, l wanted to one day play for Toronto Maple Leafs.  At the age of nineteen, my dream became a reality. I had to be the luckiest kid in the world, or so l though at the time.

My hockey background went as follows; London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League draft.  Drafted in the first round, seventeenth overall to the Boston Bruins organization, at the NHL draft. To my surprise, l suddenly became a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning organization, when they used one of their draft picks to select me as their ninth forward in the 1993 expansion draft.

As you can see already from reading my resume, l was drafted in the first round at every possible hockey draft in North America.  Not bad for a kid who grew up in a small town of Aurora, Ontario at the time with a population of 10,000 people playing single “A” hockey.  Even after being a first-round draft choice and playing in the NHL.  I can honestly say, l didn’t make enough money to retire when l was finished playing professional hockey.

As a family, ask yourself this question: How could a first round draft choice of the NHL not make enough money to retire on?  I can only say one thing looking back now on my professional hockey career.  If only l knew the business sides of professional hockey like l know it now, l would be worth close to $20 million dollars today. I want you as a parent, player to always keep this in mind at all times when reading this hockey manual that l personally wrote, so players and parents have a concept of what they will face and all of the decision you will need to make.This manual is published and has been sold by me at many cold and lonely hockey arenas but the ones who did buy my manual had a much brighter direction on what to expect from all the different angles of professional hockey; Lawyers, General Managers, Coaches and  Agents.  One of the biggest decisions you will ever have to make is who you pick as your sons agent.  The agent will have one really important goal and that is to get as much money out of your son’s pocket. True but also very sad, happens all the time at this level of the business side of professional hockey and all other sports.

I wrote this manual with the desire that l could prevent many players from making the mistakes l made as a Professional Hockey Player, as a player our careers are short due to injuries, politics and many other reasons that happen on a daily base in all professional sports.  So as l player you need to be able to avoid the mistakes l made, review my track record of draft picks.  No matter how high you go in the draft, you still need to know what l did not know as a player.

More information on the manual itself on how you will be able to own your copy, the manual is written has been sold at many local arenas and now, we will be publishing it on the internet with the next few weeks.  Why because this blog is new, still under construction and most of all, we want to provide you with logical information that will enhance your knowledge of the hockey business side at all different levels.

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Shayne Stevenson and Joseph Botelho 

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Jean DAndrea   Retired There's a lot of sharks out there, for sure! Dec 5th 2011 22:17

Joseph Botelho   Investing One Gram at a Time Yea the whole key is you will be getting advise from a former player who learned it the hard way....the whole concept here is to provide information that will provide the parents with animation of how to negotiate the best deal for your son. Realty says we all make the wrong decisions when we do not have a game plan or any knowledge that is sound and accurate.....more to come... Dec 5th 2011 22:23

Lonnie Niver   Niver's Art Well, It has been a long time since I have been on here so, Here I am. Good job you two, we need more people give good advice for the young people who are our future. Dec 6th 2011 08:48

Joseph Botelho   Investing One Gram at a Time What we have created was a bible that will help the parents prepare them self before they actually commit to a binding contract...so far we have been doing a pretty good job selling it at local arenas...Now the key is creating an E-Book and getting it on line should be fun a good project to work on.. Dec 9th 2011 07:35

freelily   I think canada is a good place ,i like it very much! Dec 10th 2011 00:11

Ken Miami-Water.com    *** i would not mind living in Canada free health care though supposedly you may wait a long time to get seen. The Canadian Olympics was awesome and maple syrup dipped in snow looks good too! Dec 12th 2011 18:48

Joseph Botelho   Investing One Gram at a Time Trust me Andrew, Canada is a beautiful country but free health care, hmmmm a thing of the past as far as l am concern. But we do produce great hockey players, it's a Canadian tradition during the holidays to watch the World Juniors, this is the most exciting hockey in the world. The best under 20's get to showcase them self's to all the scouts, teams and perhaps make hockey a living. Not many do but this is the best tournament, we as a family watched during holidays..Now my dad is not around we sort still watch but not as a family we use to once watch it....Miss that a lot.... Dec 12th 2011 18:57