Reply To: IIHF 2012 Coaching Symposiums

[Tom Molloy]

I am heading to Helsinki for the IIHF World Championships next Tuesday. I will arrive on Wed night about 9 and then go spend Thursday with Juuso in Turku and return for the weekend coaching symposium and then back to Turku on Sunday and fily back Wednesday. So lots of travel in a short time.

When you register the IIHF sends you a link to their conference website which has video of all of the previous conference since 2004. Yesterday I watched a lot of the talks and really liked the ones from the 2006 sessions in Riga, Latvia. There was a lot of practical information and on ice demo's which they edited down to the essentials.

Deniz Ince the long time captain of the Turkis national team will be in Helsinki tomorrow for the youth symposium and is staying for the advanced as well. I will meet up with him at the conference. He is bringing a small group of youth players to our hockey camp in Jasper, July 22.

Juuso is doing a lot in hockey development and PE with the Finnish educational system and we are meeting with some former Nokia employees when I am in Turku. It will be interesting to see the proposed interactive system they have been working on.

It is always interesting to meet coaches and renew old acquaintances at these conferences. There are always new ideas. Last time Dan Coyle talked about the Talent Code and I had a pop with him after. He is an interesting guy. So who knows what will happen this time.

We have tickets for 2 games each evening and I will be able to watch Canada play Finland and Kazakhstan and a few other games.

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'