Coaching Youth Hockey (Baffled Parent's Guides)
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"This is a great book that touches on the most important parts of the game: sportsmanship, discipline, and most importantly, fun.--Larry Robinson, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, six-time Stanley Cup Champion
Coach. You thought you were just going to sign up your child for the youth league, but when no one else stepped forward, you volunteered to coach the team. But you can't tell a flip pass from a slap shot or an angle check from a hip check Don't panic--Coaching Youth Hockey is here to help.
From your first team meeting to the season-ending pizza party, Coaching Youth Hockey will get you started and keep you going. You'll learn how to teach the fundamental skills of passing, stickhandling, shooting, and checking. You'll even learn to develop your own coaching style--one that works best for you and your players. Before you know it, you'll be coaching players who are moving, motivated, and most of all, having fun.Survive your first practice and first gameMatch drills to abilityMake practices safe, fun, and rewardingImprove your players and your teamReach all your playersBe the coach you never had
"A must-read book that provides guidelines for both parents and coaches in their relationships with young athletes."--Lou Lamoriello, CEO, president, and general manager, New Jersey Devils
"Just what hockey needs Everything you may encounter with young players can be answered in the pages of this extremely well-written book."--Tom McVie, forty-nine years in pro hockey as a player, coach, and scout
"I was totally confused about instructing my sons when they played hockey. This book would have prevented me from ever having been baffled."--Stan Fischler, "The Hockey Maven," NHL analyst for MSG SportsDesk, and author of Fischler's Illustrated History of Hockey
"Bruce Driver's success as a player came from being a student of the game. He has applied his knowledge of hockey to this coaching guide in an extremely thorough way. A must-read for all youth coaches."--Grant Standbrook, head recruiter and assistant coach, Maine Black Bears; former head coach, Dartmouth College
Customer Reviews
Rated 5 starsUnderstanding Basics of Hockey
Having become a hockey fan in the last couple of years, I was drawn to this book in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the sport. It's a perfect book for a newcomer - not only for coaching - but new fans as well. The book clearly and precisely explains the many rules of the game as well as the coach's role in developing young players. Diagrams are very well done and I would recommend the book to coaches, parents...
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Rated 5 starsAn Excellent Resource for Coaching Hockey!
Coaching Youth Hockey: The Baffled Parent's Guide is the perfect book for coaches, parents and young players. Each chapter is essential reading with detailed information, great pictures, and invaluable diagrams that make understanding the game a simple task. This book offers tips on how to coach effectively and how to build good sportsmanship. This is by far the best written and most detailed guide about coaching youth hockey...
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Rated 5 starsBest hockey guide I've ever read.
This book answered more hockey questions than I knew to ask. The material is presented in a clear, straight-forward manner with plenty of helpful diagrams and hints to make anyone successful at coaching hockey. If you're a coach, it will serve as your ultimate guide. If you're a hockey parent, it will show you what the coach can and should be doing for your child and the team.
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Rated 5 starsThe ultimate "how to" youth hockey book!
I highly recommend this book! It is a well-written, well-organized book for the youth hockey coach and parent as well as for the avid youth hockey fan. It covers all apsects of coaching youth hockey, from teaching the basics of the game through developing hockey skills and finally to playing the game itself. Most importantly, the book teaches the youth hockey coach and the parent how to develop the most important element...
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Rated 5 starsThis is NOT "Coaching Hockey for Dummies"
When I first ordered this book I thought it would be just be another "How to..." book. This book is DETAILED. From the advise on managing your team to the skating, shooting, puck handling and checking fundamentals to the instruction for each and every position on the ice. And to top it all off there are countless detailed drills for every situation and level of team and player developemnet. As a USA Hockey Coach at the...
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