Coaching Hockey Successfully (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

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“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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Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Human Kinetics; 1 edition (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 088011911X
• ISBN-13: 978-0880119115
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #134,842 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Hockey Coaching Book Out There!, November 16, 2007

By	Ballgame (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews

This is geared for Bantams, Midgets, and High School. But has tons of info and great detail. I basically took the info that applied to my team and made it out team manual.
Systems, drills, coaching advice, how to present, how to motivate, etc... its all in there.

Bottom line, it's a great book. If you're a hockey coach for these levels you need this. Its that good

Keep in mind as a coach you have to know your team and what applies to your team. You cant read this book and expect everything to work. Like most coaching book you have to use the info that applies. Be open, be creative. Don't be a coach who lives inside a book to give him/her the Xs and Os. This is a guide....a great guide. But you have to understand your team first for this to work.

4.0 out of 5 stars Dynamite Book for Coaching Midgets, November 6, 2003

By A Customer

Coaching Hockey Successfully has a loads of valuable information from hockey philosophy (teach your players to create space and time and teach them the concept of support) to good drills to teach your players hockey sense. This book would get five stars but sometimes Gendron loses you e.g. a description of a drill to which he does not have a diagram and one you do not understand. I thought it was my problem until I talked it over with a friend. This book is so valuable. If you are coaching Bantam and above, it's a top notch resource. Thanks, Red!