Hockey IQ Podcast

On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with skills coach Keith Mizwicki

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Quantifying game performance beyond goals/assists
- Creating personalized improvement plans with video examples
- How to build up and improve future performance
- Using video to mesh with feel based learning
- Training players at different age groups
- 3 V's of off ice shooting
- Route structures

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with skills coach Kenny McCudden.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Working with over 125,000 players
- Playing and practicing with pace
- Development through the ages... Fundamentals, fundamentals, and fundamentals
- Athlete first, hockey player second
- Using small spaces   
- Training skating
-  Hockey pet peeves

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Karl Schwarzenbrunner

• Coaching coaches
  • Giving feedback
  • Giving a few skills to coaches… Win people over, 
  • Athlete centered coaching
  • Don’t throw everything at the player all at once!!!
  • Identifying the main problem. Not the obvious things
• Athlete centered coaching
  • 24k players in Germany. Compared to 1.8m soccer players
  • Can’t select much. Required to develop
  • Talent = playing + having fun. Might be best official or coach.
  • Sport helps create good citizens
• Creating development programs
  • 2016 Germany got a new president and did a revamp. Created PowerPlayer26
  • Allocation of money based on 5 star system. Building the infrastructure of the 60 clubs in the program. 110 clubs total in Germany.
  • Planet learning + 4 levels of coaching. 11 days to complete level 1
• Using data and science to elevate german hockey
  • Sports psychology projects. Looking at fears and how they regenerate.
  • National body being the neutral party to transfer knowledge to everyone
  • Using sense arena to help processing speeds
  • 3 main reason why coaches say they lost… (1) Not efficient, (2) bad mental space, (3) weren’t ready physically

On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Vladislav Bespomoschnov + Mark O’Sullivan. Together they worked together on a research study, 'Pavel Datsyuk: Learning, Development, and Becoming the "Magic Man."'

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Anatoly Tarasov's influence
- Pavel Datsyuk's hockey path
- Pavel adapting his game given his constraints and restrictions
- Learning within development, not through development
- Importance of honest self evaluation and analytical self-thinking
- Coaching and teaching tools and tactics
- Knowledge about the game vs knowledge in the game

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Jimmy Mullin.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Why being a good teammate is key in player development
- Teaching at the USNTDP
- Hard skill vs soft skill
- Building trust
- "Own your development"
- Teaching repeatable hockey
- What it's like at the USNTDP
- How hockey players should spend their development dollar

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with hockey coach David Urquhart.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- How a coach approaches planning for a season and roster
- The importance of players leading and setting a standard
- Modeling behavior
- Creating a development focused environment
- The value of processes for players
- Leadership

You can connect with David via Twitter (@coachurq) or email ([email protected])

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with hockey coach Parker Burgess.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- The importance of character in recruiting and player evaluations
- Organizational alignment
- Structure of a week to build through a week and season
- Details within hockey
- Data tracking for hockey coaches and players

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Tomas Pacina. Tomas is a long time development coach in development and recently finished coaching the Czech WNT at the 2022 Olympics.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Tomas' Czech women's team moving from survival to domination
- Team tactics and individual skill development within team building
- Learning from Dave King, Mike Johnston, Wally Kozak, Darryl Belfry, etc.
- Working as a skills coach, including working with Jerome Iginla
- Issues within skating and what quality skating looks like
- Puck positioning to effect skating development
- Training slow vs training fast
- Feel learning

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Joel Jackson, performance coach with the Edmonton Oilers.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Joel Jackson Community Weight Room
- Benefits of the bench press for hockey players
-  Balancing pushing and pulling exercises
- Heart rate response while skating
- Work/Rest ratios
- Managing stress and athletic loads
- Off ice testing and KPIs
- Stair training and conditioning for hockey players

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Bobby Lucas, performance coach. Currently with the University of Michigan and formerly the Chicago Steel.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Implementing Strength & Conditioning within a season development plan
- Managing player loads
- KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) for performance
- Periodization and S&C season planning
- Movement patterns 
- Issues with early specialization and injury prevention
- Coaching to strengths vs coaching to weaknesses
- Data within hockey S&C / Performance
- Creating a performance peak at the end of the season.

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