This hockey blog is intended to inform, educate, and foster discussion regarding legal and business issues in hockey while providing insightful analysis for coaching and player wellness and development. After many years of in-depth discussions and the desire to present a different side of the hockey world, Beyond the Glass was born from the passion to combine the love of hockey with the expertise of our professions. While not claiming to be experts, Beyond the Glass seeks to provide thought-provoking and meaningful content through explanatory and point/counterpoint articles that explain, analyze and inform readers on many overlooked issues and intricacies in hockey. Our goal is that you walk away from reading an article not only more informed but with a new way of analyzing issues and situations to grow as a coach, player, parent of a player or fan.
CREATORS/AUTHORS
ALEC ROBERSON
ALEC ROBERSON graduated from Wake Forest Law School in 2016 and is a licensed attorney. He was in private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina for almost seven years and then transitioned to working in compliance for a major financial institution. He played club ice hockey in college and was a member of the Wake Forest Journal of Business Law and Intellectual Property while in law school. He wrote multiple articles and comments, both individually and through the journal, exploring many legal and business issues in hockey. His article, the “NHL’s Pension Power Play” was published in the American Bar Associations Labor and Employment Law Section’s summer 2016 newsletter. Still enjoying playing “highly competitive” adult league hockey as a Type 1 Diabetic, Alec also has a passion for assisting hockey players in figuring out how to handle struggles on and off the ice. Alec continues to combine his love of hockey with his knowledge and skill base to provide insightful and thought provoking articles and content to Beyond the Glass.
MIKHAIL BRYAN
MIKHAIL BRYAN is currently the Assistant Men’s Ice Hockey Coach at Tufts University (NCAA DIII) in Medford, Massachusetts and before that was assistant coach at Curry College (NCAA DIII) for 2 years. He graduated from Suffolk University in Boston in 2019. While at Suffolk, he played four years of NCAA DIII hockey and served as captain during his senior year. He then completed his masters degree in Sports Leadership from Northeastern University while coaching. A native of Ohio, hockey has been a huge part of his life since childhood. Hockey has introduced Mikhail to many different people, coaches, and walks of life over the years. He attributes much of his personal foundation to playing hockey and believes that sports can teach people incredible and valuable life lessons.
CONTRIBUTOR
YVON BRYAN
YVON BRYAN graduated from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston in 1989 and is currently an anesthesiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario where his love of hockey began playing on those cool winter days on the Rideau Canal. As a practicing pediatric anesthesiologist and with his involvement in youth hockey in the past in several American cities as a parent and a coach he has experienced and witnessed many of the tragic and less glamorous sides of this great game. He still plays adult hockey, especially enjoying pond hockey despite the sub-zero New England temperatures, and states to have read over 100 hockey related books in the last several years. Yvon contributes to this blog to reflect his ideas and experience to bring unique perspectives and alternatives on the current medical and legal issues and related health problems of all hockey players.