Coaching Hockey Successfully
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...
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Coaching Hockey Successfully is your blueprint to a successful hockey program. The book covers every aspect of the coach's role, including fundamentals like developing a coaching philosophy, building a program, planning for practices, handling game situations, and evaluating performance. Much of the material centers around teaching the sport's skills and understanding the Xs and Os. Throughout these sections are coaching points, related drills, and practice tips that will benefit your team immediately. Author "Red" Gendron has coached at all levels of competition, and his teams have won everything from high school state championships to a Stanley Cup. In Coaching Hockey Successfully he shares his wealth of knowledge and winning approach to help you strengthen your own hockey program. Whether you're new to coaching or looking for more effective ways to coach the sport, take advantage of the expertise and experiences available in this all-encompassing manual. If you do, you're sure to be a more successful hockey coach.About the Authors:Dennis "Red" Gendron has achieved success at virtually every level of hockey. At Bellows Free Academy in St. Albans, Vermont, he coached four teams to state titles. As an assistant coach at the University of Maine in 1993, he helped guide the Black Bears to their first NCAA championship. And, in the National Hockey League, Red was an assistant coach with New Jersey in 1995 when the Devils won their first of two Stanley Cups. He has since capably handled other roles with the New Jersey Devils, including head coach with their top affiliate, the Albany River Rats, and pro scout for the the parent organization. Red also has been chosen by USA Hockey to coach the country's developing players on the international scene. He has served as assistant coach on three U.S. national junior teams and as head coach of both the under 17 and under 18 teams. In addition to coaching players and teams, Red has also been a leader in coaching other coaches. As the former coaching program director for the New England District and a leading clinician in USA Hockey's coaching development program, he has mentored many peers throughout his career. Gendron earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education from New England College in 1979. While there he lettered in hockey and baseball and served as the hockey team captain for three seasons. He also holds a master's degree in education administration from the University of Maine. Gendron lives in Clifton Park, New York. K. Vern Stenlund is a leading hockey instructor who played professionally and has coached at all levels. He is also a consultant to the Huron Hockey School and has assisted in establishing satellite clinics in the United States and Canada.
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
