Grassroots: The Minor Hockey Show – Details, episodes & analysis
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Grassroots: The Minor Hockey Show
Richard Bercuson
Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 119

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29/09/2024#94🇨🇦 Canada - hockey
28/09/2024#79
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Episode 105 - Greg Revak: "I'm just trying to be less dumb."
lundi 16 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:10:38
Greg Revak, an Ohio-based coach and USA Hockey coach developer, has unique and progressive ideas on coaching the game. His podcast and newsletter hit on various topics which are pertinent to coaches at every level. In this episode, he shares with Richard his personal bugaboos and annoyances about practice design and what we can do better.
His website: https://hockeysarsenal.substack.com/
The HockeyIQ Podcast: https://hockeysarsenal.com/podcast
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 104 - Are you a new coach - of some sort?
vendredi 30 août 2024 • Duration 58:13
However you define "new," Richard and Dean discuss what coaches need to consider at the start of a new adventure and the resources they should access.
Books:
How we learn to move by Rob Gray
The Coach's Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov
Transforming Basketball by Alex Sarama
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
Podcasts:
This one, of course!
The Talent Equation - Stuart Armstrong
The Perception-Action Podcast - Rob Gray
HEO Youtube channel - Brian Gillam (Hockey Eastern Ontario
Web sites:
hockeycoachingabcs.com - Tom Molloy
admkids.com - USA Hockey
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 95 - Madame President: Where we are - Where we're heading
jeudi 9 novembre 2023 • Duration 01:25:38
Kealy Lambert is a former college hockey player, now a mom, a coach, a lawyer and the president of Bow River Minor Hockey in Calgary. She's seen the game from just about every angle and now, as the head of an organization, she suspects Canadian minor hockey is heading...well...listen to find out where.
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 6: The team from hell
vendredi 10 avril 2020 • Duration 45:01
What coach hasn’t had a group that was, at best, forgettable. Here’s the story of one , from former AAA and junior A coach Rick Ladouceur.
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 5: Part 2 - The modified ice program
vendredi 3 avril 2020 • Duration 46:47
"I was skeptical at first," says former pro Corey Lucas, a teacher and coach in the new program. "But it works. It really does."
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 4: Part 1 - Hockey Canada's modified ice program
vendredi 27 mars 2020 • Duration 26:06
Steve Millar has been teaching hockey for a long time. He gladly changed his approach when the new program came about.
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 3: Do hockey schools work?
vendredi 20 mars 2020 • Duration 43:38
Rick Ladouceur, a former junior A and AAA coach, has run hockey schools for ages and ages and…well, let’s hear what he has to say about them.
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 2: The Coach Selection "Process"
vendredi 13 mars 2020 • Duration 41:34
Richard invites his former TSN co-host Gregg Kennedy to discuss what goes on, or should go on, in the coach selection process.
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 1: Golly Gee!
vendredi 13 mars 2020 • Duration 13:50
This first episode reminisces about one of Canada’s greatest hockey teachers and previews the show’s future content.
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com
Episode 94 - Dr. Stephen Norris - Part 2
mercredi 18 octobre 2023 • Duration 50:03
Stephen Norris delves deeper into Canada's minor hockey world, finishing with the challenge: What would you do if declared King of Hockey Canada?
Contact:
richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com
X (Twitter):
Richard - @berky544
Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com