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Playing to Win and Not to Not Lose
Written by: Keith HannaArticle Overview: The third period of the Gold Medal hockey game was excruciating to watch.
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Playing to Win and Not to Not Lose
The third period of the Gold Medal hockey game was excruciating to
watch. Canada got up by two goals by midway in the game and then seemed
to change their strategy. In the first part of the game they took the
game to their opponents and this resulted in the two goals. Then, as
the weight of national pride and the whiff of victory began to waft
through the arena, they began to protect the lead. This is of course
human nature. The US got one goal and we all got more anxious. The last
five minutes of the game consisted of the increasingly desperate
American throwing wave upon wave of attacks at the Canadians who were
getting increasingly desperate to knock the puck back out of their end.
I saw it coming, as many people did, and with less than a minute to go
the US tied the game. It seemed inevitable. It was only a matter of
time and based on results they had the time to wear down the Canadians.
In
the fourth period the defensive strategy of "trying not to lose" was
done because there was no longer a lead to protect. The Canadians were
forced back into "trying to win" and returned to taking their game to
their opponents. With the strongest offense of Canada against the
strongest defense of the US, a 4 on 4 was bound to come up in Canada's
favour. It was just a matter of time.
"Playing not to lose" is
much different than "playing to win" because it focuses attention on we
don't want, which is bound to then happen. The two phrases seem
semantically equivalent but they are not: one brings fear to the mind
(losing) and the other brings the goal to mind (winning). One brings
about panic and the other a conscious competence. It's the latter than
is the winning approach.
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