| There’s a lot more to coaching hockey than teaching players how to shoot a puck. You have to train them to execute advanced skills and tactics, evaluate their technique, and give them exercises and drills to hone their skills. Additionally, you have to organize your team, select equipment, motivate your players, plan practices, and pull everything together for competitive play.
Coaching Hockey Successfully makes all these tasks much easier by guiding you through every aspect of the coach’s role giving you a blueprint for establishing a successful program. It’s an all-encompassing manual for beginning coaches and a thorough reference for more experienced coaches. Author Dennis “Red” Gendron has coached hockey at nearly every level of competition, from youth summer clinics to NHL teams, and his teams have won everything from high school state championships to a Stanley Cup. In Coaching Hockey Successfully Gendron shares his experiences and wealth of knowledge to help you build your own winning hockey program.
Part 1: Coaching Foundations
Chapter 1 Characteristics of an Effective Coach
Chapter 2 Coaching Purpose and Philosophy
Chapter 3 Communication and Motivation
Part 2: Planning for Success
Chapter 4 Season Plans
Chapter 5 Practice Preparation
Chapter 6 Building a Feeder System
Chapter 7 Two Principles for Better team Play
Part 3: Teaching Play in the Defensive Zone
Chapter 8 Defensive Zone Skills and Strategies
Chapter 9 Defensive Zone Drilling
Part 4: Teaching Play in the Neutral Zone
Chapter 10 The Neutral Zone and Transition
Chapter 11 Neutral Zone and Transition Drilling
Part 5: Teaching Play in the Offensive Zone
Chapter 12 Offensive Zone Skills and Strategies
Chapter 13 Offensive Zone Drilling
Part 6: Coaching in Games
Chapter 14 Special Teams Play
Chapter 15 The Art of Bench Coaching
Coaching Hockey Successfully gives you advanced skills, drills, and strategies for play in the defensive, neutral, and offensive zones. The book addresses a wide spectrum of vital coaching topics:
- Developing a program philosophy
- Motivating players
- Planning the season
- Preparing for practices
- Building a feeder system
- Handling game situations
- Evaluating performance
Product Testimonial:
“You might know what good hockey is, but Coaching Hockey Successfully can help you communicate it to your players. This is a great book on the how’s and why’s of coaching hockey, from someone who really knows his stuff.”
Tom Webster
Former head coach, New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings
"Coaching Hockey Successfully is an excellent book for coaches at all levels. It is primarily geared toward higher level coaches (15 year olds and up) covers many topics that today’s coaches want information about. Along with an array of on-ice topics it also covers important off-ice topics such as communication, preparedness, season plans, bench management, and scouting. The special teams portion of the book is very detailed and offers many tips and plays for coaches who want to improve there team’s power play and penalty killing percentages. Coach Gendron is a very knowledgeable hockey mind and passes his knowledge on to other coaches. Coaching Hockey Successfully is a book that will certainly make your team better and will improve you and your coaching staff’s information of the greatest game on the planet."
Travis Rybchinski
Head Hockey Coach
MSU-Bottineau Lumberjacks
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