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[hockeygod]

NHL General Managers Tell how Winners are Built

Dec 28 2011

I received a lot of books this Christmas! I am partway through "The Rare Find" and really enjoyed Georges Laraque's book. Today I started reading the NHL GM book (thanks mom!) and love it! I highly recommend it!

This article below ties in with the book…

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Flames GM doesn’t have time to mark anniversary

Scott Cruickshank, Calgary Herald, December 28, 2011

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Jay Feaster insists that he never thought about it.

It simply did not occur to him.

That if any date had been stuck in his head lately, it was Tuesday’s — the day of son Ryan’s 11th birthday.

Today, however, marks the first anniversary of Feaster’s occupation of the Calgary Flames general manager’s throne.

Not that it’s a big deal to the man. Apparently.

“The job is such, that once you’re into it, it’s every day, it’s constant,” Feaster is saying outside the visitors quarters at Nationwide Arena. “You don’t take time to sit back and think, ‘Gee, it was just a year ago.’ And it’s a situation where we’re not where we want to be . . . and there’s a lot of work that needs to be done.

“That’s the focus all the time.”

Under his 12-month watch — exactly 82 games, including Tuesday’s 2-1 shootout win in Columbus — the Flames have compiled a 43-26-13 log (and 99 points).

Which, over a single winter, would be enough to cinch a playoff berth.

Nevertheless, the Flames finished 10th last season in the Western Conference. And, because of early-season sluggishness, they have spent this campaign gawking up at the eighth rung.

And this happens to be precisely how Feaster assesses his program.

Not for bite-size improvement.

Not for better salary-cap use.

Not for flashes of competence.

But, plain and simple, for post-season entrance.

“Be clear about this — there is only one measure of success for the Calgary Flames,” says Feaster. “It’s the playoffs. Then, once in the playoffs, it’s about playoff success. There’s a lot of work that goes on with the organization, there’s a lot of good things we’re doing. I’m happy and proud of the things we’re doing. But, at the end of the day, the measure of success is the playoffs.

“We went into this season believing we had a team that should make the playoffs. To be sitting five points ahead of last year’s pace? That’s just not good enough. Yeah, it’s better to be where we are now than where we were a week ago . . . yet it’s not where we should be.

“There’s still a big road ahead of us.”

Since Feaster took over from Darryl Sutter, much deadwood has been cut adrift.

Ales Kotalik and Niklas Hagman, for instance. First-round flops Matt Pelech and Kris Chucko.

Then again, Feaster has orchestrated his own snarls — giving up a seventh-round pick for swaybacked winger Freddy Modin; giving up a fifth-round pick for Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, currently toiling in the minors.

“For me, it never was my guys, their guys, his guys,” says Feaster. “This is our team. These are our guys — and they’re our guys till they’re not here. I don’t go down the roster, ‘Oh, that player was Darryl’s. That player was Craig Button’s guy. Or who drafted him?’ There’s none of that for me.

“They’re our guys. This is our team.”

And should he ever be at a loss, Calgarians, ever helpful, will happily provide all the advice he needs. After all, Feaster is one of only 1.1 million general managers in the city.

“I would rather have the sport-talk radio filled with whatever they want to say about me, about us,” he says. “I’d rather have people talking (about the Flames) than having to convince people to become passionate about the game. That’s an incredible advantage we have in Calgary — people care.”

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[Eric Fink]

Let me know what you think of The Rare Find. That is in transit as I type.

I am not sure I want to fork over the money for the GM book. I am curious to see if you think it is a true insiders look.

I got these for Christmas:

Keenan – Jeff Gordon

A Passion to WIn – Lou Nanne

Coaching the Mental Game – Dorfman

Coachisms – Howe

On Becomming a Leader – Bennis

Wisdom for the Busy Coach – Zonars

Building a Champion – Bill Walsh

The Rare Find – Anders

Thinking Fast and Slow – Kahneman

[hockeygod]

Eric wrote:
Let me know what you think of The Rare Find. That is in transit as I type.

I am not sure I want to fork over the money for the GM book. I am curious to see if you think it is a true insiders look.

I think it is very worth it. I haven't been able to put it down! (Since I know some of these people, I find it interesting some of the things that were published…some things contradict what I know of them… still lots of things 'not' said on the record!!) I think it really gives one a good 'feel' of some of the pressures these guys operate under. It is interesting to read about how the game has changed… and in some circumstances, how it hasn't. I had a great discussion today with a Junior Coach / GM about several of the issues commented on in the book and he thought it was fascinating… he is going to buy the book for himself.

I got these for Christmas:

Keenan – Jeff Gordon

(I got this for a former player of Mike's – I read it too and he said the book was a pretty accurate reflection. Lots of the 'crazy' stuff was left out!)

A Passion to WIn – Lou Nanne

Got it; haven't yet read it…

Coaching the Mental Game – Dorfman

???

Coachisms – Howe

???

On Becomming a Leader – Bennis

Think I read it a long time ago – at least it was a book by Bennis?

Wisdom for the Busy Coach – Zonars

Building a Champion – Bill Walsh

Great book!

The Rare Find – Anders

Reading it – like it! Will write something more once I'm done…

Thinking Fast and Slow – Kahneman

???

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Sudden Death: The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos
Tragedy to triumph – 1986 Broncos one of hockey's greatest stories of survival

ROBERT KOOPMANS, Kamloops Daily New Staff Reporter, December 29, 2011

There is little doubt in Gregg Drinnan's mind, the tale of the Swift Current Broncos' path to Memorial Cup victory in 1989 is one of hockey's greatest stories of survival.

Just three years before its victory in Saskatoon, the team suffered a tragic bus accident that killed four key players. Through the same period – and not known until many years later – the team was coached by sexual predator Graham James, who victimized at least two of them.

Despite all the adversity, the determined crew persevered and won the Canadian Hockey League's greatest prize, Drinnan said.

The team's comeback is the subject of Drinnan's soon-to-be published book entitled Sudden Death: The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos. The book, to be published by Dundurn Press, is expected on Canadian bookshelves in September.

Drinnan, now sports editor at The Daily News, was assistant sports editor at the Regina Leader-Post at the time of the accident. There was no denying the impact the crash had in Swift Current, the province and the Western Hockey League, he said.

"It was huge. Three of the kids were from Saskatchewan," he said.

The crash caused changes to WHL travel policies, for example, that gave team drivers the ability to cut short travel if weather conditions were too severe. It also cast watchful eyes on the young team as it moved forward.

Little was spoken publicly about the crash as the team played on, he noted. While it's clear, based on after-the-fact interviews, that the players on the team played for their dead teammates, none spoke it at the time for fear the mention of that might somehow jinx their effort.

It wasn't until the Cup was in hand that the emotional nature of the victory become apparent. The players talked of their lost teammates and how they felt them watching from above. To this day, the Broncos wear special shoulder patches on their team jerseys – a four-leaf clover with the numbers of the killed players – in memorial to them.

Drinnan said he was approached last year by two people and asked if he would help put together the book. They had assembled a rough manuscript. He read through it and agreed to assist.

He said the team's passage through an extremely dark period and its eventual Memorial Cup victory is a testament to the inner strength of that young squad.

They survived events that might have crushed others, especially since their coach – a man who was later convicted of molesting two of the boys on that very squad, including Sheldon Kennedy – offered them so little support. James refused to allow the team to speak with grief counsellors, likely to keep his own activity from being discovered.

"It's a story about survival first, and then comeback. They were kids at the time, many of them away from home for the first time," Drinnan said. "It's an amazing story."

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Gregg Drinnan, Taking Note, Dec 30 2011

Sudden Death: Book to be published in September

It was 25 years ago today when the Swift Current Broncos boarded their bus and headed to Regina for a scheduled game against the Pats. It was to be the Broncos’ first game following the 1986-87 Christmas break. This also was their first season back in Swift Current, having moved from Lethbridge over the summer.

The Broncos’ bus, of course, never made it to Regina on that stormy evening in 1986. It crashed just east of Swift Current and four players – Scott Kruger, Trent Kresse, Chris Mantyka and Brent Ruff – were killed.

Tonight, the Broncos are again scheduled to play in Regina and the Pats will honour the memories of Kruger, Kresse, Mantyka and Ruff in a small pregame ceremony.

Tim Tisdale, who was in his first season with the Broncos in 1986-87 and who lives and works in Swift Current, will be on hand to take part in a ceremonial faceoff. Tisdale played with the Broncos through the 1989 Memorial Cup, in which he scored the OT goal in a 4-3 championship-game victory over the host Saskatoon Blades. He later went on to a coaching career that included a two-season stint with the Pats.

The pregame ceremony, which is to begin at 7 p.m., also will include Darren McKechnie, who was a 19-year-old forward with the Pats in 1987-88.

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More than two years ago, two people – Leesa Culp and Bob Wilkie – approached me about a project on which they were working.
They had prepared a short manuscript about the crash of the Swift Current Broncos’ bus that they were wanting to turn into a book.
At the time of the accident, Culp was in a big rig that had slowed down to allow the Broncos’ bus to pull onto the Trans-Canada Highway at Swift Current. Wilkie was a defenceman in his first season with the Broncos, who had acquired him from the Calgary Wranglers earlier in the season.

Culp and Wilkie both felt there was a story to be told.

More than two years later, the manuscript has been worked and reworked, interviews have been conducted, and out of it all has come a book.

Sudden Death: The Incredible Saga of the 1986 Swift Current Broncos is to be published by Dundurn Press in September.

This is the story of the Broncos, primarily from Dec. 30, 1986, through the end of the 1989 Memorial Cup.

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You already are able to pre-order this book from Amazon and from McNally Robinson.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Fighting the Good Fight: Why On-Ice Violence Is Killing Hockey
Adam Proteau

John Wiley & Sons, 2011-12-01 – Sports & Recreation – 384 pages

"A veteran hockey writer takes on hockey culture and the NHL–addressing the game's most controversial issue

Whether it's on-ice fist fights or head shots into the glass, hockey has become a nightly news spectacle–with players pummeling and bashing each other across the ice like drunken gladiators. And while the NHL may actually condone on-ice violence as a ticket draw, diehard hockey fan and expert Adam Proteau argues against hockey's transformation into a thuggish blood sport. In "Fighting the Good Fight, " Proteau sheds light on the many perspectives of those in and around the game, with interviews of current and former NHL stars, coaches, general managers, and league executives, as well as medical experts.

One of the most well-known media figures on the hockey scene today, famous for his funny, feisty observations as a writer for the "Toronto Star" and "The Hockey News" and commentator on CBC radio and TV, Adam Proteau is also one of the few mainstream media voices who is vehemently anti-fighting in hockey. Not only is his book a plea to the game's gatekeepers to finally clamp down on the runaway violence that permeates the sport even at its highest level, he offers realistic suggestions on ways to finally clean the game up.Includes interviews with medical experts on head injuries and concussions, as well as with other members of the mediaThe author not only wages an attack on the value of fighting in hockey–but also on the establishment hockey culture

Covering the most polarizing issue in hockey today, "Fighting the Good Fight" gives hockey fans and sports lovers everywhere a reason to stamp their feet and whistle–at a rare display of eloquence and common sense."

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Commitment

Proactive Coaching LLC Newsletter #44
http://www.proactivecoaching.info
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Convenient, Compliant, Conditional or Full Commitment?

This information is taken from our new book, Proactive Leadership – Empowering Team Leaders, only available on our website.

Commitment is usually one of the things that successful teams attribute to their success. Lack of commitment is usually one of the things identified in teams that fail.

Convenient – This person will do the job when I feel good or feel like doing it. They will often start toward a goal but quit if it gets too difficult. These people are comfortable contributing to an apathetic culture.

Compliant – This person will do the job if it is required for them to be part of the team. They will do what is asked and little more. Compliance is watered down commitment and they will be happy in a culture that is happy with being good (not great).

Conditional Commitment – This person is selfish and will do the job if it benefits their personal agenda. They filter everything through what they are personally gaining. They will be committed as long as they get their own way, (their points, getting to play the position they want, their playing time, their attention and their goals). They will be on board as long as things are going well and the team is winning. They will demonstrate committed behaviors as long as it doesn’t get to difficult or they are expected to practice too hard. They will turn on the team when things get tough. You cannot count on them and unless they change and buy in they are capable of damaging even the strongest team culture. Do not sacrifice your team covenants for these selfish individuals regardless of how talented they are.

Committed – This person will do whatever is needed whenever it is needed. They live the team’s core covenants with a full heart. They don’t care if it requires extra effort, time, energy or personal sacrifice, they will pay the price. They don’t need to talk about it; you’ll be able to see it in their actions. They will not only do it, they’ll embrace it. They are compelled and focused. They go all out all the time. They are all in. They are committed. These people are the foundation on which great team cultures are built.

Commitment opens the door to reaching potential for individuals and teams. Full commitment reduces your options and keeps you on a consistent, predictable path. There will be tough times where commitment is the only thing carrying you forward. It provides the burning desire to keep focused on your core covenants and goals. Commitment allows people to do the tough jobs, to keep moving forward, to work long hours. It allows a team to persevere through difficult times with strength and resiliency.

It is essential in the best team cultures that leadership demonstrates full and unconditional commitment. Before people buy into the team culture they must buy into the leader(s). A leaders commitment will be tested by their actions, not their talk. The people you want to follow you will hear what you say but they will believe what you do. True commitment demonstrated in a leader's actions inspires and attracts people to a cause bigger than themselves. Strong leaders have a level of commitment that cannot be questioned.

Video Recommendation

During this year's bowl season, one of the best games was Michigan State vs. Georgia. You might have heard Mike Trico during the game talk about the speech Kirk Cousins gave at the Big Ten Media Day. We saw this late this summer and have shown it to many young student athletes as he does a great job talking about the privilege of playing athletics and the responsibility that comes with that privilege. Take a look and see if you think your players could benefit from this 7 minute clip.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[Kevin Capie]

Seeing "Building a Champion" in that list reminded me of perhaps my favorite coaching book, "Finding the Winning Edge" by Walsh and Brian Billick. It literally is a blueprint of building an NFL franchise.

While the chapters on offense, blitz protections and quarterback footwork, etc. don't apply to hockey there is so much else worthwhile. There's chapters on dealing with the media, hiring assistants, managing a salary cap, job descriptions and team/staff meeting talking points.

Here's a column on the book's influence on Bill Belichick. http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=cr-walshinfluence073007

Unfortunately, there was only a print run of 36,000 copies so they go for around $150 now online. I'm so glad I found it in an airport bookstore when it first came out.

[Eric Fink]

KevinC,

I have it on my wish list on amazon.com and am hoping I run into a less expensive copy somewhere…. although I fear that might be next to impossible.

I am half way through "The Rare Find" and it has been a good read so far. I really enjoy the pursuit of talent and finding qualities in people that lead to success in sport and other areas as well.

[hockeygod]

Good stuff KevinC! Thanks for sharing!

I will have to look to see if I have this one in my library!

Here is the article to which you are referring:

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Unlikely influence

Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports, July 30, 2007

If Bill Belichick were to loosen his cerebral grip, ever were going to empty out the folds of gray matter hidden under that gray hoody, he'd do it the way Bill Walsh did.

He'd teach. He'd write a book explaining it all. He'd spin the game of football forward by giving it all away. He looks at how Walsh did it, and out of admiration, it has become one of Belichick's hidden desires, too.

Walsh, who passed away Monday after a lengthy battle with leukemia, left an indelible impression on the man who has taken his place as the NFL's reigning genius.

To this day, Belichick insists Bill Walsh: Finding the Winning Edge is the greatest piece of football literature regarding a franchise blueprint ever written. Belichick read the book in the nuclear winter of his own coaching career, between the disaster with the Cleveland Browns and resurrection with the New England Patriots. At a time in his life time when Belichick was forced to re-examine his basic truths about team building, he wrapped his hands around the second of several books by Walsh.

When he was finished, Belichick's philosophical foundation as a coach had once again solidified beneath his feet.

"Saying it was outstanding wouldn't do it justice. For a coach, it's a Bible," Belichick said. "That book reinforced most of what I thought as a coach. I was glad to see Bill write it and say the things he did because a lot of it was either what I was trying to do or what I believed in. Between the book, the clinics, talking to Bill and picking things up from the (San Francisco) 49ers organization, there was certainly a confirmation in my mind that this is the way to do it."

They are words of deep respect, born of a relationship that few have known about over the years. Unbeknownst to most, Walsh has been one of the men who helped Belichick hone his coaching compass over the years. Separated by coasts, specialties and maybe even social personalities, Walsh somehow became a beacon, a sounding board and a geographically distant friend to the man who has authored the league's latest dynasty.

"Even though we never worked together and were really rivals in the 1980s – myself as a defensive coach and Bill as an offensive coach – and even with a lot of distance between us, we've had a very good relationship," Belichick said.

You wouldn't have made the match, with the two seeming so different. Even with the often tribal relationship of coaches, Walsh seemed more of the philosopher poet while Belichick has seemed cut from the cloth of a Cold War scientist. But their mutual knowledge and abilities as thinkers created the bridge. Much in the way that Miles Davis found inspiration in the styling of Charlie Parker and Vincent Van Gogh found motivation in the artistic kinship of Paul Gauguin, Belichick discovered a bond with Walsh through ideologies.

It wasn't always that way, of course. Belichick spent the greater part of the '80s playing Walsh's foil as a linebackers coach and defensive coordinator for the New York Giants. It was Belichick who spent his nights burning through film of Walsh's West Coast offense, tinkering with defensive game plans that often meant the difference between a run at the Super Bowl or heading home for the season.

It was during that time that Belichick's appreciation for Walsh took root. His players were disciplined. His system was painstakingly precise and well-practiced. And his players fit

"(Walsh) did such a good job of getting Roger Craig and Wendell Tyler and the tight ends, Russ Francis and John Frank and Brent Jones, … to execute that offense," Belichick said.

Even now, so many years later, he feels the pangs of satisfaction from his lone playoff victory over Walsh – the 49-3 bludgeoning in 1986 which arguably is the best game Belichick ever has called as a defensive coordinator.

Years later, when Walsh had retired and Belichick became coach of the Browns, the respect for Walsh developed into a bona fide friendship. Belichick sought to understand more about the San Francisco 49ers as an organization and the West Coast offense as a system. Phone calls on strategy and personnel became a staple. At one point, Belichick dispatched an assistant coach to spend time with Walsh at a coaching seminar. When the assistant returned, he carried with him 30 pages of Walsh's personal insights.

Eventually, the days in Cleveland went bad, and Belichick was left in the years that followed to dissect what went wrong. He's not particularly fond of the topic even now but allows that when he read Finding the Winning Edge, it armed him with renewed conviction.

Released in 1997 and written with the help of current Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick, the 550-page book is classic Walshian theory. While most coaches were penning lyrical accounts of players and teams and Super Bowl victories, Walsh enlisted Billick to help him write a how-to manual on building a franchise. And when it was finished, it was as complete as any outline ever has been.

From how to hire and fire coaches and scouts to refining a quarterback's footwork, the book dissects every nook of an NFL team. Taking all his notes, thoughts, clinics and even vital portions of his playbook, Walsh laid bare all that amounted to San Francisco's greatness in the '80s. And with a touch of his own personal teachings, he laced it with nuggets on leadership from presidents, generals, coaches, philosophers and theologians. In the chapter on designing a winning game plan, Walsh draws from Sun-Tzu's The Art of War:

"Rapidity is the essence of war; take advantage of the enemies' unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots."

Boiled into offensive terms: Keep your opponents on their heels and throw the ball to the open spot.

"If I were an owner, first of all, I would read that book," Belichick said. "Then I would make that book required reading for my head coach, general manager or any other key executive in my football operation."

That's with the assumption an owner could find enough copies. The book sold out all of its 36,000 copies. Now, securing one at vintage bookstores or on the Internet costs anywhere from $90 to $180 (more than six times its original price of $29.99). There even is a leather-bound edition, autographed by Walsh and limited to 300 copies, that fetches anywhere from $600 to $1,000. And on the rare occasion that several copies pop up at a bookstore, they typically are scooped up in an instant by coaching staffs.

Over the years, Billick has been approached by businessmen who have used the book as a business model, professors who have used it as a textbook in sports management, and, of course, coaches like Belichick who leaned on it to shape the principals of their own teams.

"Bill envisioned it as something on every coach's desk that he could refer back to," said Billick, the 49ers assistant director of public relations from 1979-80. "And I think he did that. Some people might say that it was a self-ingratiating concept, this whole 'the world according to Bill Walsh' thing. But Bill genuinely just wanted to put into print his observations about this league. And there really is no other book out there like it."

In that vein – the proliferation of ideas – there have been few like Walsh.

"Most of us are kind of private and aren't too helpful to outsiders – I guess that's a nice way of putting it," Belichick said. "But Bill was kind of like Johnny Appleseed. He was throwing those seeds out there in a helpful way to anyone who was interested."

And though Bill Walsh is gone, it's the seeds he bestowed on others that will keep him from ever being forgotten.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

An inside look at life as an NHL GM

Published Monday, Feb. 20, 2012

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/an-inside-look-at-life-as-an-nhl-gm/article2343920/

Author Jason Farris joins the Hockey Roundtable to talk about his book Behind the Moves. The 252 page coffee-table book is based on in-person interviews with all but one of the 35 living GMs who have led a team to the Stanley Cup final. More information on the book is available here: http://www.nhlgms.com/

Podcast

[audio src="http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01376/Behind_the_Moves_1376246a.mp3" /]

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[Eric Fink]

You read this book right? What did you think? Did you learn a lot from it?

Just want to make sure before I drop a $100 spot on it!

[hockeygod]

Eric,

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I have only read about 1/2 of it. Looking forward to finishing it. (Finishing Ron MacLean's Biography right now. A 'light' read but interesting. The author (Kirstie McClelland-Day) has a daughter who plays goal on Tom's Midget AAA girl's team.

The NHL GM book is a 'big' book in size / weight. Glossy paper, lots of interesting stuff!

I received it as a Christmas present from my mom (Thanks Mom!); but I would drop the $100 on it myself!

I hope you enjoy it.

Did anybody else read it? Thoughts?
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Dean, Lundy played for me last year with the Rockies in the WWHL pro league that folded. She now plays for Team Alberta in the CWHL. She played 4 years on a scholarship in the NCAA.
Tom

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Continuing a discussion on Books For Coaches – moving a couple of posts forward from Developing a Season Plan:

By: Aberdeen on Wed February 22, 10:39

Whats the name of Fred Shero's book? Would love to get that??
http://www.amazon.com/Shero-Man-Behind- … 498&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Hockey-Coach-Play … 498&sr=8-3

both these look awesome

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By: hockeygod on Wed February 22, 11:32

Aberdeen,

I have his first one (1975) Shero: The Man Behind the System. I bought it at a local second hand bookstore for $20 last year.

Check http://www.abebooks.com/ to source out hard to find books. Also check your local second hand book stores. Sometimes they have an online search; other times, you have to ask them to do a search at the store in their computer; sometimes,it's old school – go to the sports section and look for yourself!

Dean

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By: Aberdeen on Thu February 23, 11:48

Dean that website has both books for $1!! awesome. Im going to get those and the scouting book by Gare Joyce.

I love books like these. Its so hard to find them because there arent many. Gil stein wrote a great behind the scenes book called Power Play. Game Misconduct: Alan Eagleson and the Corruption of Hockey
is another good one.

money Players is good

and of course the best of the best fo coaches are Ryan Walters books

any other suggestions?

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By: hockeygod on Thu February 23, 12:53

Aberdeen,

I just ordered another whack of books from ABE Books yesterday – 17 of them – including the one Shero book I didn't yet have. Total was approx $138 – most books were under $4 (with a couple of exceptions) and it cost $3.02 per book for shipping (from the US to Canada). Buying second hand through these online retailers is cheaper than buying them second hand in person – depending on shipping costs, of course. I also bought a couple of books on my Kindle yesterday. $9.99 each (no shipping!) and immediate delivery. It pays to shop around and compare prices between the booksellers on ABE, your local second hand sellers and the 'big box' online sellers.

We should continue the book discussion on the appropriate thread "Books for coaches to read" (I will post this over there) to keep this thread focussed on Developing a Seasonal Plan.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[hockeygod]

Aberdeen,

What 'kind' of books are you looking for? Any specific topics? I read about 12-15 books per month and might be able to make some suggestions. Also, check previous posts in this thread as I have listed numerous books.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[john]

what books you buy?

[Author]

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