ABC Method and Player Development
Last night I ran into the goalie coach who was with me most of the time when I did the skills 3 times a week at the Edge School for Athletes. My son went there one year and played for their Prep team and I played his tuition and fees by coaching the hockey class every M-W-F for two years.
The players came by bus and I would be waiting for them at the rink. I only knew first names and hardly saw them without their helmets on. The players were 12-13 years old which are the 'Golden Years' for learning skills. Jeff Hill was the coach but he had me plan and run the ice sessions.
Three of these players made the NHL. Two were number one picks and one was Rookie of the Year. The other player is on the small side but probably the most skilled of the three and has spent the last few seasons up and down NHL and AHL.
Earlier I coached boy's the same age and two of them made the NHL, another is small but won the Hobey Baker. Six players from that team were playing pro last season. They are 85 born.
Before that I coached another who I let come to my summer camps for free and he skated with the Korean teams that I trained most summers through the 90's. He was NHL Rookie of the Year and scored a lot of goals in his career.
Many more players over the years have played Jr. A, Major Jr., college and minor pro. A 93 born player who I coached in Austria last season won the Rookie of the Year' in the Finnish top league.
So the method I learned from Juhani Wahlsten and Vladimir Jursinov is very effective developing players, especially if the players are taught in the three or so years just before puberty.
85ers 1998 – six pro, two NHL, 4 Europe, one Hobey Baker.
DT100 – Continuous 1-1 – 85er's
DT100 Continuous 2-1 – 85er's
Skills Class – two NHL #1 drafts, one ROY and one part time NHL player.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/b3-partner-passing-edge-skill-class/
I posted this a long time ago. Juhani had several players from his hockey class play in the NHL and Olympics, Koivu, Virta and his buddy Jursinov used the same philosophy to send numerous players from Russia.
'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'