How to get more women behind the bench: Inside an NHL coaches development push
Lindsay Artkin peered into a crowd featuring some of the brightest minds in the hockey world.
Lindsay Artkin peered into a crowd featuring some of the brightest minds in the hockey world.
Ken Hitchcock remembers eagerly attending coaching symposiums in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
NHL coaches can’t really coach right now, since hockey isn’t being played. So they’re spending their newfound time coaching one another. The NHL Coaches’ Association expedited the launch of its mentorship program by six months to accommodate the thousands of coaches stuck inside and looking for enrichment.
Stays engaged exchanging ideas, experiences with colleagues from League, junior levels.
Buffalo Sabres head coach Ralph Krueger joined Andi Petrillo on Leafs Lunch. They chatted about how antsy the Sabres are getting to get back on the ice, the season they’ve had thus far, and we heard from Krueger on the recent webinar he hosted for hundreds of coaches.
Boston Bruins Head Coach Bruce Cassidy joined Andi Petrillo and Matt Cauz on Leafs Lunch to discuss how he’s handling all this unexpected downtime, what made him want to give coaching seminars to ECHL bench bosses and is Brad Marchand actually a good guy?
Last June during draft week in Vancouver, I was invited by the NHL Coaches’ Association at their annual Coaches Clinic conference to moderate a panel featuring Scotty Bowman, Darryl Sutter and Terry Crisp.
The third winningest head coach in NHL history Ken Hitchcock joined Andi Petrillo and Matt Cauz on Leafs Lunch. We chatted about the NHL Coaches Association’s new online mentorship program, what has allowed Leon Draisaitl to take the next step in his development, and more.
Ralph Krueger finds himself about as far from an NHL rink as he could be right now, sitting back home with family in Switzerland in a scene he describes as “ghost towns everywhere.”
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