Income beyond the ice

NHL forward on pairing his contract with an AI-driven side strategy

Behind the boards, conversations are no longer limited to draft picks and cap hits. Players are quietly building private financial stacks— and one Canadian top-six forward says an artificial-intelligence system has become part of his routine off the rink.

By Marcus O’Donnell, Ottawa · Photo: league archive

Hockey player on ice, dynamic side view — On the ice, the paycheque comes from performance; away from the arena, Ethan Tremblay says automated tools now anchor a second income stream. *File photo.*

Ethan Tremblay, under contract with an Eastern Conference club, earns his living the old-fashioned way: goals, assists, and minutes on the first line. For close to a year he has also run a private AI-based capital allocation platform developed by a small Canada–Europe engineering group. By his account the software does not predict game outcomes; it reallocates and reinvests funds within preset risk bands—work that runs while he is at practice or on the road.

After the system levelled out, Tremblay says it has been returning more than US$500 per day over the past twelve months, before currency swings and taxes he declined to detail. Straight math: 365 days × US$500 lands near US$182,500 a year if that daily figure held every calendar day—actual results can land above or below that line.

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At a glance

System: AI platform for capital allocation and reinvestment
Time in use: ≈ 1 year
Reported benchmark: > US$500 / day
Annual extrapolation: 365 × 500 = US$182,500 (if the daily rate held steady)

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