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Time for some 'new school thinking'!

I am supposed to discuss this with them sometime next week.

Fingers crossed that I will have an impact on Marc… Rob has started to convert!

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Dean that would be interesting for you. I really enjoyed my season with the Red Bulls and saw a lot more games in practice than I see here. I did the camp in Jihlava, Czech Republic two summers ago and they wanted me to assist Petr Svoboda with the U20 team and mentor all the coaches ( he was the only english speaking coach as he played for Toronto for a few year and I had to do all of the training through him). The city didn't grant the team the money to bring me there. (city pays wages for all the coaches below pro level there) It was quite a compliment as the GM Bedrich Sherban was voted the best Czech player in the world in 91. (I stayed at his house when I was there)

The Czechs and the Finnis associations are now working closely together. Czech, Swedish, Russian and Finnish coaches had a week of cooperation together in Prague last month. Kalle Kaskinen from Turku was there and said it was great.

Willy liked working with Crawford in Dallas. He said he was allowed to contributs a lot so it looks like Rob is going into a good situation. Not all assistant coaches are utilized well and it can be frustrating if your only job is to move pucks around during practice.
Tom