Mental performance coaching
The next level starts with your mind.
You have a coach for your skating, your skills, your strength. Riley Stillman coaches the part that runs all of it, so you perform like yourself when it matters most.
You have a coach for your skating, your skills, your strength. Riley Stillman coaches the part that runs all of it, so you perform like yourself when it matters most.
Everyone agrees the game is ninety percent mental.
This is where you train the ninety percent.
No scripts, no closing your eyes, no theatre. Just real work, on a steady cadence, with someone who has been where you are headed.
It starts with regular one-on-one calls. Real conversation, real tools, real topics. A place to think out loud and be straight with yourself, with a coach who has lived this.
Session by session, you build the confidence, focus, and presence that hold up under pressure. Iterative, honest, and built around how you actually play.
All of it points at one thing: the player, and the person, you are growing into. On the ice and off it. As far as your dream reaches.
This is for the young player in the years that decide everything. Drafted, signed, or on the way up.
You can feel there is another level in you, and you are not willing to leave it to chance. You want to be pushed, you want real tools, and you want it because it is yours, not because someone is making you.
If you are a parent, this is for the kid you watch pour everything into this game. The work is not only about a better player. It is about a steadier, more capable young person who knows what they are chasing and why.
Wherever the next level lives for you, the NHL, the American League, a college scholarship, a longer career, the work is the same. Train the mind that gets you there.
Riley Stillman is a third-generation professional hockey player and a mental performance coach. He is still in the game today, which keeps his coaching rooted in the sport as it is right now, not as it used to be.
He spent four years inside this work as a client before he ever coached it, so he knows from the inside what it asks of you. Players who have sat across from the wrong kind of mental coach feel the difference right away: no gimmicks, no performance, just someone real with real tools. Strong and steady, and genuinely kind. The kind of presence that has nothing to prove and everything to give.
He coaches because he believes this game makes leaders, and leaders make change. He wants to leave it better and more honorable than he found it, and that starts with the next group of players and how they carry themselves, on the ice and off it.
Dream bigger. The game is worth it.
Short thoughts on the mental side of the game, and what it actually looks like to train it. Read them here, or have them arrive in your inbox.
On presence, the short memory great players build, and why the only question that matters is what you have today.
Read on Substack → Coming soonA vision is not a daydream. It is the thing that decides what you do when the game gets hard and no one is watching.
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Read on Substack →The mental side of the game, in plain language, from someone still playing it. No noise, no selling. Unsubscribe anytime.
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Tell me a little about you, or your player, and where you are headed. If it is a fit, we will set up a first call and take it from there. Spots are limited on purpose.
Prefer email? Reach out at hello@rileystillman.coach.