On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with skate sharpening guru, Keegan McMindes. Keegan teaches Greg everything to know about skate steel, profiling, sharpening, and so much more.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- What goes into a quality skate sharpening
- Skate hollow, profile, zones, radius, etc.
- Pressure along the steel when sharpening and maintaining the bevels
- Using different grits on the cutting stones for different types of performance
- Different types of steel
- Proper blade storage + common reason for blades craking in half
- Skating zones (Acceleration, agility, speed, and stability zone)
- How goal skates differ from player skates 
- Altering the pitches of steel
- How the holder affects the steel and what's within the holder

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Justin Goldman. A Goalie guru and author.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Mental side of goaltending
- Dealing with situations, emotions, and managing ourselves
- How shooters can make a goalie's life difficult
- Importance of edgework being greater than ever
- Zoo tigers vs Jungle tigers
- Where goalies should look to read the shooter and situation
- Practice design for goalies within team practices
 
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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Jill Plandowski. Jill is a skating expert and hockey wife + hockey mom to 3 boys. She's developed thousands of great skaters from the youngest ages to the NHL.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- The role of pucks within skating development
- Details of Balance, Glide & Stride within skating
- Shin angles, Arm efficiency, & Posture
- Feel-based learning and teaching
- Skating stride at start vs. at speed
- Tying up skates differently for improved skating
- Relationship between upper/lower body in turns
- Stride under fatigue
- "Knock knee" and crossing your feet

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Brian Gillam. Brian is the Coach Development Coordinator Hockey Eastern Ontario,  Owner of SPS Hockey Development, Hockey Canada Skills Coach, and High Performance Coach.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Great content and ideas HEO has been able to gather and offer to coaches
- Making academic concepts reachable to coaches and players
- The importance of removing the coach from activities so they can use their coaching skills (Observation, Explanation, Demonstration, Question asking, and Checking for understanding,)
- The importance of getting people in reflective states to personalize and grow.
- Creating great environments for learning
- Stages of learning and how they affect learnings + teachings.

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Hockey Eastern Ontario

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with practitioner, John "The Colombian" Catrillon. With years of observing, experimenting, and implementing great developmental environments.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Self-discovery within athlete development
- Games to teach the game. Sacling complexity up and down.
- Benefits of playing with younger and older players
- No mercy rule to accelerate development
- How to make players work hard
- Creating pride and discipline.

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with professor, researcher, consultant, entrepreneur, analyst, etc... Geir Jordet! Geir is known for his work in scanning research and how Greg got to dive into Geir's excellent work.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Scanning research
- Importance of body orientation
- Details that matter within scanning (Critical scans, scan timing, etc.)
- Training to improve informational reads and decisions
- Future scanning research into ice hockey
- Going beyond scanning to understand how player take in information
 
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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with current player and Columbus resident, Ayo Adeniye.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Getting into hockey without a traditional hockey background and overcoming obstacles.
-Igniting a passion for hockey and the mentor along Ayo's journey, John Haferman
-Flipping the switch to become a no-nonsense competitor on the ice
- Innovative ways Ayo has found to develop his game... journaling, visualization, stoicism, etc.
- Prioritizing fitness
- Separating factors for the teammates that have gone on to great success
- Winning a national title

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with hockey expert and new hockey dad, Jack Han.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Father's Day and our personal hockey dad stories
- How our father's gave us the gift of loving hockey
- How we work with parents as hockey consultants
- Coaching hacks
- How we source and work with clients
- Why we get hired
- How people are using our newsletters
- Coaching our teams in unique ways that we find highly effective

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with PE Teacher, MS Kinesiologist, and LTAD expert, Chris Sevier!

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Long Term Athlete Development
- How the best kids at 8-9y/o burn out
- Why the environment is more important than the coach's instructions
-  Engaging parents and understanding what/how learning really occurs
- Adjusting to the resources available
- Stages of coaching (Yelling to Yelling to Asking)

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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with coach and coach developer, Jim Haverstrom!

A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- What is a hockey director and what they do
- Creating programming for youth hockey players
- How to avoid creating practice players
- Involving and educating parents 
- How simply changing to a psotive mindset changes everything for the better

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