Coaching Call
Coaching Call is is a question show about coaching grassroots hockey.
We have a certain take on coaching hockey. We believe in using sport to make players better people on and off the ice. Your hosts are David Trombley, a coach with 30 years of experience at all levels and ages, and Susan Sim, a new house league coach.
You can submit your questions at http://newcoach.ca/
Episodes
14 episodes
Ep. 14. How to get the most out of your players
Our guest on this episode is Brandon Stojcevski, a professional hockey player with the Danbury Hat Tricks. We talk about his path through youth hockey, which included being cut from teams, multiple injuries, and missed seasons. David and ...
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42:59
Ep 13. How to coach using simple principles
Our guest on this episode is Coach Michael Zigomanis, a former professional hockey player turned youth hockey coach. He was with the Pittsburgh Penguins when they won the Stanley Cup in 2009. Since that time, he has coached kids from 11-18 at A...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:15:44
Ep 12. How to become an elite women's hockey player
On this episode, our guest is Marie-Pierre Pelissou, member of Team France and SA Bern, and clinical project manager for Nestle. We talk about her personal journey through hockey and how coaching made a difference for her. Although she is livin...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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42:50
Ep 11. What does empowered coaching look like?
New coaches often feel like they are imposters, meaning that they don't know what they are doing. Sometimes this feeling persists even after multiple seasons as a winning coach. Our guest on this episode is Coach Chris Lothier, who both feels l...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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40:08
Ep 10. Why, when, and how to choose a leadership group for your team
Traditionally, the best player on the team was the captain. But that's not necessarily the best approach for choosing your leadership group. In this episode, David and Susan talk about what jobs to give to captains and how to coach them to be l...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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35:55
Ep 9. Unequal ice time considered harmful (Or how to create and play your lines)
One of the great arts of coaching is putting players on lines and putting those lines on the ice in a game. Do you give player unequal ice time? Or do you give players equal ice time by rolling the lines? Who do you put on your power play and p...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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38:34
Ep 8. How to stay onside with parents
With the start of the new hockey season, it's time to hold that all-important parent meeting. This meeting lays the foundation for productive relationships between coaches and parents. Our guest is Gary Titmarsh, who has maintained good relatio...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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44:14
Ep 7. How can I still be a head coach if I have a professional skills coach?
A fellow new coach was nervous about losing his authority as a head coach if he had professional skills coaches. David gives advice on using a team approach to coaching. We bring in a goalie skills coach, Daniel Vella, to offer his perspective ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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38:49
Ep 6. Susan comes back from skills courses with questions
Susan attended Hockey Canada’s Instructional Stream courses: Skating 1 and Development Defensemen 1. We debrief her experiences and Dave answers her questions. Coaching Call is is a question show about coaching grassroots hockey. W...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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25:44
Ep 5. Do you play to play or play to win?
It's Dave's turn to ask a question about a situation with his women's recreational hockey league. Susan weighs in with her insights from software teams at big companies. Coaching Call is is a question show about coaching grassroots...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:06
Ep 4. What counts in kids hockey?
How did Dave and Susan do on the celebration challenge? What analytics should we use in kids hockey? What's the value of playing cross ice or half ice in younger age groups? Does house league need goalies? Will Dave climb a telephone pole this ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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39:03
Ep 3. How do you celebrate your gains?
People with a growth mindset are constantly striving for improvement. But this mindset leads to a hyper focus on the gap between current state and goal state often leads. Dave challenges Susan to celebrate the gains too, and she doubles down wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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44:11
Ep 2. How to get off to a good start
Join us for an insightful episode where we explore new beginnings. Key questions that we tackle include: How to you teach little kids to skate? How do adults learn to skate? How do you get started in hockey? How do you get good at hockey? How d...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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56:36