Mat Robinson may not have taken a traditional route in his hockey career, but the defenceman carved himself a path overseas that led him to a pair of trips to the Olympic Winter Games
Four years ago was a moment Mat Robinson will never forget.
As his wife, daughter, family and friends cheered him on in the stands, he
captured an Olympic bronze medal with Canada’s Men’s Olympic Team at the
2018 Games in PyeongChang.
With nine years of professional hockey under his belt, you may have
expected the then-31-year-old to make a career decision after the Olympics.
But Robinson had no plans of slowing down.
“I still felt like I had quite a bit of hockey left in me,” he says. “I was
playing for CSKA Moscow in the KHL, and I was on a very, very good team.
For me, I just wanted to keep playing there and enjoy my time there.”
Robinson was motivated by the opportunity to win a championship with his
team—a goal he achieved in 2019 when CSKA Moscow won the…