Wednesday, October 1, 2025

The Napa Boys (2025): Movie Review

                                                                                  


Jim's review

The Napa Boys had potential yet was wasted for disgusting gags and stupid jokes!

1 out of 10 stars



Movie plot:
In the tradition of American Pie, Lord of the Rings, and Wet Hot American Summer comes a new installment in a beloved IP franchise: The Napa Boys are back - and for the first time, in this anarchic alt-comedy spoof.







Swiped (2025) Movie Review

      Toronto International Film Festival Selection 2025                                         


Jim's Review

Whitney Wolf ( Lily James) goes on journey to self reflection and success and finds herself in a difficult position herself as an innovator in a male dominated social media world.

She gets her big break as co founder of Tinder which quickly almost destroys her mentally. 

She ends up starting successful app Bumble which leads to her success and lesson she learned along the way to make changes in the dating app world

8 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

"Swiped" is 2025 biographical drama that chronicles the life of Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble, highlighting her journey through the male dominated tech industry and her experiences with dating apps like TInder.






Captain America Brave New World (2025): Movie Review

                                                                    



Jim's Review

Captain America Sam Wilson has the shield and the responsibility and this is not easy for him to handle at times.

Samuel Sterns is back for more devious plan that will affect President Ross (Harrison Ford)

The epic battle in the end is interesting and mostly revealed in the trailer.

6 out of 10 stars


Movie plot:



"Captain America: Brave New World" follows Sam Wilson as the new Captain America, navigating international incidents and an assassination attempt on President RossThe plot involves a global power struggle over a new material called Adamantium, stolen from a Celestial hatching. Sam must uncover a nefarious plot involving the material and a mind-controlling villain named Samuel Sterns (who is also connected to President Ross's transformation into Red Hulk). 




Fantastic Four First Steps (2025): Movie Review

            Marvellous, Mystical and Mesmerizing!                                          



Jim's Review

Fantastic Four is back with a new characters and storyline that is simply marvelous!

9 out of 10 stars




Movie plot
Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and the Thing face their most daunting challenge yet as they defend Earth from Galactus and Silver Surfer.






Jurassic World Rebirth (2025): Movie Review

                                                                              


Jim's Review

Jurassic World is back with a new vision and more dangerous dinosaurs on the loose.

9 out of 10 stars





Movie plot:
A new era is born. This summer, three years after the Jurassic World trilogy concluded with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office, the enduring Jurassic series evolves in an ingenious new direction with Jurassic World Rebirth. Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar® winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind. Also starring acclaimed international stars Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, the film is directed by dynamic visualist Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp. Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. Academy Award® nominee Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades. Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team member; Critics Choice and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family. The cast includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben’s family. The film also features, as members of Zora and Krebs’ crews, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool). Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by BAFTA winner Edwards from a script by Koepp (War of the Worlds), based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The film is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, both longtime Jurassic franchise producers and of last summer’s blockbuster, Twisters. The film is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Denis L. Stewart and Jim Spencer.







Thunderbolts* (2025) Movie Review

                                                                    




Jim's Review

A ragtag team is formed with Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Buck Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian ( David Harbour ), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen ), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko  ) and John Walker (Wyatt Russell  ) are brought together by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine ( Julia Luis Dryfuss) to fight each other or for other more interesting reasons! more on that later.

The are an unlikely team in the beginning fighting each other then band together to fight Valentina and the Sentry (Lewis Pullman) which is an ongoing battle. In the end the * is explained.

8 out of 10 stars




Movie plot





The movie "Thunderbolts*" centers on a team of reformed antiheroes – Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster, and John Walker – brought together by Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. They are tasked with dangerous missions, but find themselves entangled in a death trap orchestrated by Valentina, forcing them to confront their pasts. The team must decide if they will succumb to their dysfunctional nature or find redemption and unite as a team. 








 

Thursday, August 14, 2025

Behind The Mask: Book Review

                                                                     


Jim's Review

Tremendous insight in goaltenders between the pipes who led their teams to success and dealt with their own issue and demons in times where the help was not available as it is now.

10 out of 10 stars


About book

A dozen incredible stories about hockey’s legendary goalies, on and off the ice—including Carey Price, Marc-André Fleury, Roberto Luongo, and Henrik Lundqvist.

“Hockey goaltenders have forever been thought of as unique, eccentric, weird and wacky. Also misunderstood. Randi Druzin’s Behind the Mask is a fascinating examination of a dozen of those who have played the position at the highest levels. This well-researched and well-written book is revealing and delightful at the same time.”—Roy MacGregor

While his teammates rush up the ice in a coordinated attack, the goalie is alone in his net. And when the play turns back toward him, he's prepared to step in front of a frozen rubber disc traveling 100 miles an hour. He's the last line of defense in a pitched battle. The goalie stands apart, on and off the ice. Like the relief pitcher in baseball and the place kicker in football, he is a maverick.

Behind the Mask profiles 12 legendary NHL goalies, emphasizing the traits that make each one unique. It blends accounts of the goalies on-ice exploits with anecdotes about their lives off the ice information gleaned from archival research as well as interviews with teammates, family members and the goalies themselves.

The careers here cover the last half-century of professional hockey from the personal struggles of Roger Crozier and Ed Giacomin on their way to stardom in the 1960s, to the recent brilliance of Carey Price, whose character blends stoicism with a deep warmth and pride in his Indigenous background.

Told with author Randi Druzin’s trademark mix of knowledge and wit, Behind the Mask has all the insight and color to make it a bestseller like her previous book on NHL goalies, Between the Pipes.

Hockey goalies profiled include:

  • Roger Crozier, Detroit Red Wings / Buffalo Sabres
  • Rogie Vachon, Los Angeles Kings
  • Gerry Cheevers, Boston Bruins
  • Ed Giacomin, New York Rangers
  • Tony Esposito, Chicago Black Hawks
  • Vladislav Tretiak, Soviet Red Army
  • Mike Palmateer, Toronto Maple Leafs
  • Grant Fuhr, Edmonton Oilers
  • Roberto Luongo, Vancouver Canucks
  • Marc-André Fleury, Pittsburgh Penguins / Vegas Golden Knights
  • Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers
  • Carey Price, Montreal Canadiens

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

F1 (2025): Movie Review

                                                                     


Jim's Review

                                                                Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) want to redeem himself in the F1 circuit and Ruben Cervantes ( Javier Bardem) give him that chance to do just that.
 
                      The movie make you twist and turn and enjoy the action and drama all the way to the end!

                                                                     8 out of 10 stars
                                                    
                                                                            Movie plot

Dubbed “the greatest that never was,” Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was FORMULA 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling FORMULA 1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to FORMULA 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him and he finds that in FORMULA 1, your teammate is your fiercest competition—and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone.




                                                               

Inner Excellence Train your mind for extraordinary performance and the best possible life: Book Review

                                                                       


                                                                           Jim's Review

 This book made international headline as player of the Philadelphia Eagles was reading it on the sidelines during the Superbowl of 2025.

                                             A master piece of personal development!


                                                                            9 out of 10 stars



                                                                           About book;

The #1 New York Times bestseller. 200,000+ copies sold in three weeks.

Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how to train your mind like the very best.

My #1 tip for success: Read Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy. 
- Stewart Cink, British Open Champion, 8-time PGA Tour Winner

Whether you’re an athlete or entrepreneur, single mother or father of five, you’ll find exercises, techniques and tools in this book that will improve every area of your life. Your life will take on new meaning as you move beyond the pursuit of happiness to a life of purpose and fulfillment.

Jim Murphy's complete program of proven mental techniques is based on the powerful principles of love, wisdom, and courage, that came from over six years of full-time research and writing (after his masters degree in Coaching Science).

“I read the first version of Inner Excellence six times. I recommend all my clients read it.” – Matt Killen, PGA Tour coach to Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods and many others

INNER EXCELLENCE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO:

  • DEVELOP SELF-MASTERY—and let go of what you can’t control
  • OVERCOME ANXIETY—and build powerful mental habits
  • REMOVE MENTAL BLOCKS—and get out of your own way
  • TRAIN YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND—and release limiting beliefs


As a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization, Jim’s sense of worth and identity revolved around his performance. He was obsessed with fame but also afraid of failure, and that fear made him struggle under the pressure to perform.

From Hoodies Innovating Digital assets For traditional finance To Suits: Book Review

                                                                        

 

                                                       Jim's Review

 Thin book with a powerful message on digital asset and finance industry.


8 out of 10 stars


                                         About book

Learn how digital asset technologies can be applied to the regulated, traditional finance industry for improved performance and returns

In From Hoodies to Suits: Innovating Digital Assets for Traditional Finance, leading finance innovator Annelise Osborne bridges the gap between the “hoodies” who invented the technology behind digital assets and the “suits” who run traditional financial markets, in an entertaining and insightful guide for implementing digital assets in an institutional environment.

You’ll discover the possibilities unlocked by new technological advancements, including alternative investments, new marketplaces, interoperability between counterparties, and even improved forms of diversification. You’ll also find:

  • Discussions of why the adoption of digital assets is so critical for the future of finance and the ways the industry’s largest players are implementing its technologies and concepts now
  • Explorations of what we can learn from some of the crypto industry’s most infamous and well-known wins and losses, including the collapse of FTX
  • Strategies for implementing institutional digital assets to realize opportunities in private markets, funds, debt, repo, alternative assets and back office transactions in this evolving and dynamic financial environment

A fascinating new take on the future of finance, From Hoodies to Suits is a must-read guide for aspiring and practicing finance professionals, technology developers, fintech participants, and anyone else with an interest in the intersection of finance and technology.

Dreamer My Life on the Edge; Book Review

                                                                                           



Jim's Review

Nazem Kadri is a bonified Stanley Cup Champion with the Colorado Avalanche of 2022. The journey he went on get there is truly captivating and amazing to read.

10 out of 10 stars


About book

An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, 
Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality.

No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem Kadri, nor does anyone doubt his warmth and openness in front of a microphone, or his eagerness to challenge the next generation of Muslim athletes. He is a league All-Star, a highlight-reel player, and someone who has been called upon to be the face of his community from the moment he put on skates.

Nazem Kadri was a top-ten draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, chosen not only for his elite skills but because he would reflect Toronto’s immense diversity and huge Muslim population. And he was soon a fan favourite, not only with a new generation of diverse fans, but with traditionalists too, who admired his willingness to play the game with old-school toughness.

In the end, he was traded to Colorado as management sought to shake up the team. But it was the Avalanche, not the Leafs, who benefitted most, and Toronto fans missed him. When Colorado won the Stanley Cup in 2022, Kadri (by then a fan favourite in Denver) was a clutch player in high-pressure games. Today he is a veteran leader with the Calgary Flames, and still making the highlight reels.

Home and Away: Book Review

                                                                                                 


Jim's Review

Captivation book on Mats Sundin's  life of  family, hockey and success


About book
In one of the last great remaining untold stories in all of sports, the Hall of Fame Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin shares for the first time an unfiltered look at playing hockey in Sweden and across North America as part of the sport’s most fabled franchises.

Growing up in Sollentuna, Sweden, on the outskirts of Stockholm, Mats Sundin skated on the lake downhill from his house, a house his father had built with his own hands, on land his mother insisted on buying for their future. In the darkness of the Scandinavian winter Sundin would chase after his older brother on that lake for countless hours. Summers spent in nature with his grandparents instilled a lifelong love for the outdoors. Playing hockey in their driveway, the three Sundin brothers imagined scenes of suiting up for Sweden’s national team and scoring a game winning goal against their favoured rival, the Soviet Union. It wasn’t until his late teens that he caught the eyes of scouts and coaches from the other side of the Atlantic. At the 1989 NHL draft, eighteen-year-old Sundin was as surprised as anyone when he was selected first overall by the Quebec Nordiques.

After a few years as a Nordique, Sundin was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for the highly popular Leaf captain, Wendel Clark. In his early years in Toronto, he felt both at home and from away, working extra hard to gain acceptance in the world’s toughest hockey market. Even once he was named captain, Sundin didn’t deviate from his quiet nature but instead lead by example, never asking anyone to work harder than he did. Over thirteen seasons with the team, he would learn just how fiery the cauldron of Leafs Nation could be.

In Home and Away, Mats Sundin writes openly for the first time about what it was like for him to uproot his life in Sweden to embark on a long hockey career an ocean away. Home and Away is an elegiac, heartfelt, and honest story of a man who followed his passions, cherished his family, faced heavy scrutiny, and ultimately earned his way into both the hearts of fans and the hockey record books. His journey transcends the rink and shows what it means to be a quiet and unpretentious Swedish kid who went on to become one of the most accomplished players in the history of the game.

The Catalysts The Accelerating Forces Forging The New World Financial Order: Book Review

                                                                       



Jim's Review

Sensational page turner from beginning to the end

8 out of 10 stars


About book

Since the end of WWII, the United States has dominated the global economic stage. Not coincidentally, the US dollar has served as the world’s default currency. America has routinely rattled its saber to wage and win wars, cripple economies, leverage its soft power, and nudge its allies. Enemies who have dared to bear the brunt of America’s stifling economic sanctions have suffered the consequences.

For a bevy of reasons, however, America’s global financial reign is rapidly coming to a close. It’s not a question of if, but when. No dynasty lasts forever, and the US is proving to be no exception to this rule.

Blame—or thank, depending on your point of view—a diverse set of powerful catalysts. They include American political dysfunction, the invention of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance, the rise of tribalism, and others. Any one of these forces alone would challenge the mightiest of empires. Their combination, however, is accelerating the birth of a new financial world order.

But what will this new, uncertain financial system look like? What are the rules? Where are the minefields and opportunities? Moreover, how can a nation, its elected officials, a non-governmental organization, or a think tank navigate this often chaotic milieu? Policymakers’ and advisors’ answers to these existential questions are wanting.

Amanda Wick has seen these forces play out firsthand, both domestically and internationally. As a Senior Investigative Counsel for the US House of Representatives and a staff member of the January 6th Committee, she witnessed how a once-great nation attempted to whitewash an insurrection. On the global stage, she has advised organizations of all sorts and spoken frequently about the rise of cryptocurrency, web3, and blockchain technology.

Wick’s debut book—The Catalysts: The Accelerating Forces Forging the New World Financial Order—could not have arrived at a more opportune moment. Insightful, timely, and essential, The Catalysts clearly explains what’s really happening, why, and what policy professionals can do to best position their constituents for the vastly different world ahead.


Together (2025): Movie Review

                                                                                      


Jim's Review

Tim ( Dave Franco)and Millie ( Alison Brie)( real life couple!) move out to the country side to find themselves and save their relationship. 

Tim and Millie find this mysterious hole that leads to a pond with mysterious markings.

What follows is dramatic escalation in their relationship from physical to energetic magnetism.

By the time your reach the 3rd act you make get little less engaged of your on flesh.

The climatic end will have you wondering would I have done that with my spouse/ partner?


Movie plot
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie find themselves at a crossroads when they move to the countryside, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.










Sunday, August 10, 2025

Weapons (2025): Movie Review

                                                                               


Jim's review

Director Zach Cregger (Barbarian 2022) with a new tale of Weapons. 17 kids from the same class wake up at 2:17am and disappear into the night. Where did they go? 

Justine Grady (Julian Garner) entire class excluding one student Alex Lilly (Cary Christopher)  have all gone missing and the entire town is up in arms about it.

The story is told through different perspectives with leads up to the 3rd act which will have you gripped to your seat in terror!  

9 out of 10 stars





Movie plot
When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.







Additional article on Weapons from Screenrant website Learn more

Friday, August 8, 2025

What the Heck Are You Up to, Mr President? Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country: Book Review


Jim's Review

A remarkable read into the life of Jimmy Carter and the difficult decisions he had to make during his presidency

9 out 10 stars


About book
At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter's presidency, when morale was low and his ratings were even lower, Carter gave a speech that should have changed the country—instead, it led to his downfall. Kevin Mattson takes us behind the scenes of the Carter White House in the weeks leading up to the fateful speech, and examines the moral crisis that ushered in a new, conservative America.learn more and buy book

 

Tony Robbins Person Power: Product Review

                   " It was a powerful and insightful strategies on the success strategies that work!" Jim Pagiamtzis                                                          


Monday, June 16, 2025

Echo Valley (2025):Movie Review

                                                              



Movie plot
In the edge-of-your-seat thriller Echo Valley, Kate (Oscar winner Julianne Moore) is a mother struggling to make peace with her troubled daughter Claire (multi-Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney) — a situation that becomes even more perilous when Claire shows up on Kate’s doorstep, hysterical and covered in someone else’s blood. As Kate pieces together the shocking truth of what happened, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child in this gripping tale of love, sacrifice and survival from BAFTA-winning director Michael Pearce and Emmy-nominated writer Brad Ingelsby.




Jim's review

Kate (Julianne Moore) is a mother tormented by her daughters troubled life issue Claire ( Sydney Sweeney) the drama and intrigue starts as Claire shows up for forgiveness and brings her major problems with her!

Kate can't stop herself from separating herself from her daughters terrible choice in friends and gets embroiled in with her.

The third could have been a truly masterpiece was destroyed by sheer ineptness of all the choices Kate and Clair make.

6 out of 10 stars






Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Revenge of the Tipping Point Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering: Book Review

                                                                                    


Jim's Review

Malcolm Gladwell has following up the original Tipping Point with a marvelous evaluation and descripting of various event and the impact they made

10 out of 10 stars

About book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Most Anticipated in:
AARP Associated Press Time Magazine | Oprah Daily | Chicago Tribune | Literary Hub |
Publishers Weekly | Publishers Lunch

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

Why is Miami…Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.
 
Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. 
Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously. learn more

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Dreamer My Life on the Edge Nazem Kadri: Book Review

  "Bonified Stanley Cup Champion with the Colorado Avalanche!"  Jim Pagiamtzis              

 

                                                                     My review

                                                             It was an enjoyable to read from the beginning all the way to the end. Nazem Kadri shares his journey from juniors to the Toronto Maple Learfs and the trials and drama he went through. Getting traded to the Colorado Avalanche was a blessing because in a few short years he was bonified Stanley Cup Champion with the Colorado Avalanche.  

Then due to budget he signed a contract with the Calgary Flames where he has become a leader and respect by all the game.

                                                                                      9 out of 10 stars


                                                                      About book

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An outspoken, inspirational memoir from a charismatic athlete in the spotlight, 
Dreamer is the moving story of the first Muslim hockey player to win the Stanley Cup, and the impossible dreams he made a reality.

No one who knows the game is unfamiliar with the story of the NHL’s first Muslim Stanley Cup winner, Nazem Kadri, nor does anyone doubt his warmth and openness in front of a microphone, or his eagerness to challenge the next generation of Muslim athletes. He is a league All-Star, a highlight-reel player, and someone who has been called upon to be the face of his community from the moment he put on skates.

Nazem Kadri was a top-ten draft pick of the Toronto Maple Leafs, chosen not only for his elite skills but because he would reflect Toronto’s immense diversity and huge Muslim population. And he was soon a fan favourite, not only with a new generation of diverse fans, but with traditionalists too, who admired his willingness to play the game with old-school toughness.

In the end, he was traded to Colorado as management sought to shake up the team. But it was the Avalanche, not the Leafs, who benefitted most, and Toronto fans missed him. When Colorado won the Stanley Cup in 2022, Kadri (by then a fan favourite in Denver) was a clutch player in high-pressure games. Today he is a veteran leader with the Calgary Flames, and still making the highlight reels.

But the core of Kadri's story is what happened off the ice—both shocking and heartwarming. Kadri faced brutal anti-Muslim harassment during Colorado's Cup run from Blues fans and received incredible support from Denver fans. When a controversy arose about an uncalled penalty on the championship-winning goal, this founding member of the league’s Hockey Diversity Alliance used the opportunity to make humorous t-shirts, which raised over $250,000 for the Kadri Foundation.

And when he had his traditional day with the Stanley Cup, he took it to the mosque in his hometown of London, Ontario, along with the message that the highest success, not just in hockey but in life, is a destiny any of us can choose. learn more and buy book