
A prep-school player became an adviser, connector, youth coach and occasional actor. His useful talent is seeing the route between where a player stands and where the game is heading.

From a free magazine at The Beer Store to intelligent lockers on campus, Scott Stevenson's career keeps returning to one question: how do you turn an overlooked point of contact into a relationship that works?

After nearly three decades building global brands, the longtime Nike marketer and youth coach has arrived at CCM Hockey with a practical idea: make heritage useful to the next player who steps onto the ice.
Columbus has proved it will show up - 94,751 fans did so at Ohio Stadium. The Blue Jackets' harder business is turning civic affection, a loud cannon and a deep local network into the durable habit of winning.
San Jose is rebuilding more than an NHL roster. With a generational young star, a lease through 2051 and a sweeping arena overhaul, the Sharks are trying to turn a hockey club into the Bay Area's most durable live-entertainment habit.
HELIOS is a Portsmouth, New Hampshire sports-technology company that builds a hardware-free wearable and app platform for hockey. Its Core sensor clips to a shoulder pad and uses stride-recognition machine learning to measure skating explosiveness, agility, speed and balance, then syncs the data with shift video so players and coaches get instant, benchmarked feedback the moment a shift ends. The company's stated goal is to give youth, college and pro players the same quality of performance data that was once reserved for elite programs, sold as a hardware-plus-software membership.