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Eric Nystrom

Eric Nystrom

American former ice hockey player

Sep 1, 2026

AdamHOST
36:32
The one that could get past it quickly is the one that gets to the next level.
36:39
Yeah, absolutely.
36:40
And then you think of like... like a guy like a Sidney Crosby, for example, or like these top players, like, I mean, they go into these games and they just are like, I'm the best.
36:53
Like they, they just know they're the best.
36:55
And I think that like, and I'm painting this picture of all the things I've learned, but like, there's, I had limiting self-thoughts too.
37:04
Like, you know, when I stepped onto the ice in the NHL, like I didn't think I belonged there.
37:09
Like I was like, I'm in the locker room with a guy whose poster I had on the wall.
HaleyHOST
41:33
I was
22:50
Except this was dangerous because an open flame could cause a methane explosion, or it could just go out.
22:56
You know, you think about what a flame on your head goes through when you move your head around.
23:01
There's wind.
23:02
You know, there's movement.
23:03
There's jostling, and that flame is your light, and it might be your ability to get out of the mine.
23:10
Needless to say, it was a big deal when a new technology came onto the scene, carbide lamps.
23:15
Carbide is a, it's a manufactured product, and it's discovered in the late 1890s.
23:20
And then pretty quickly they figure out when it comes in contact with water, it generates acetylene gas, and acetylene burns with a bright white flame.

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