For Coaches

You Can Run a Drill.
Can You Teach the Skill?

The part of coaching nobody trained you for.

  • →Level 5 USA Hockey coach
  • →USA Hockey certified me to train their coaches
  • →District evaluator for the USA regional selection team
  • →Sat on committees granting Tier 1 status to state travel programs
  • →Thousands of camps, clinics and lessons since 1991

My coaches clinics put the staff in gear and on the ice to skate the drills themselves. I also coach the teams my own two kids play for.

What's coming

Skill Work Inside Practice

  • →Teaching a skill, not just running a drill around it
  • →Correcting at full speed without stopping the sheet
  • →Making it show up in a game, not only in practice

Running Big Groups

  • →Forty skaters, one sheet, nobody standing still
  • →Stations when your assistants have never run one
  • →Holding a clinic together across a huge ability range

Handling Players

  • →The kid who shuts down when it gets hard
  • →Correcting without taking their confidence
  • →When benching teaches and when it just punishes

Handling Parents

  • →The meeting that prevents most problems
  • →Playing time talks that don't become a war
  • →Teaching players to speak for themselves