He\u2019s also learned from his uncle, Pascal Rheaume, Manon\u2019s younger brother. Pascal was an undrafted forward who played 318 NHL games with six teams through nine seasons from 1996-2006 and won a Stanley Cup with the New Jersey Devils in 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that sticks with me is, everyone does a lot, especially when you get to older levels, and it’s about who’s going to do more,\u201d Rheaume-Mullen said. \u201cHow are you going to get that extra advantage when there’s a day you feel like (garbage) or your legs are heavy. How are you still going to dominate and be the best player on the ice? So just all those little habits add up, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rheaume-Mullen started skating when he was around 18 months old. His mother took him on the ice in his skates and helmet, with a pacifier in his mouth and his blankie in his hand. He began taking full skating lessons at the age of 3.<\/p>\n
\u201cEver since I can remember, I’ve been skating,\u201d he said. \u201cIt’s just been my passion, and it’s a hobby for me, too. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was 10 years old when he decided he\u2019d had enough of being in goal and wanted to be a skater. It was after The Brick Invitational Hockey Tournament in Edmonton. He didn\u2019t play much and \u201cit was so hard on him,\u201d Rheaume said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was like, ‘I never want to feel like this again.’ It just switched how much work he wanted to do, training as much as possible. He would be sometimes annoying me in the house because he would pretend to be skating and stickhandling. He just wanted to play and be better. He doesn’t like to not be good at something.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019d played some forward during his goalie years and enjoyed practicing more as a skater. Rheaume said she admitted it was a \u201cbig relief\u201d when he stopped playing goalie.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it saved my mom from having a heart attack because every game she’s watching my older brother, she gets super nervous, I can’t even talk to her,\u201d Rheaume-Mullen said. \u201cSo she was pretty pumped when I switched.\u201d<\/p>\n
He left an impression on the Sabres at development camp, who saw \u201cgood, promising things\u201d from him, according to Mair. Now he\u2019s ready to carry what he learned there and from his first year in college into his sophomore season at Michigan.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can’t just skate and then work out and then do whatever you want after,\u201d Rheaume-Mullen said. \u201cIt takes so much more than that to be a pro. I think that’s what NHL players are so good at. \u2026 That’s a big thing I’m going to take with me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s also learned from his uncle, Pascal Rheaume, Manon\u2019s younger brother. Pascal was an undrafted forward who played…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-98642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114929353701974432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}