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🇨🇦 Canada - hockey
23/06/2025#93
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Principles, Not Systems
Season 4 · Episode 2
vendredi 6 juin 2025 • Duration 58:19
Topics
-The downsides of systems (longer feedback loop, fragile)
-Principles teach the why both implicitly and explicitly
-The use case for inverted offensive games to focus attention and intention
-Examples of teaching OZP and entry using constraints and incentives
Drew's Coaching Philosophy
Season 4 · Episode 1
dimanche 25 mai 2025 • Duration 43:58
We connect the common thread between both of our philosophies, talk 'Power' and 'play' culture
The First Principles of Gameday Coaching
Season 3 · Episode 7
mercredi 22 mai 2024 • Duration 56:54
Topics:
-Naurato's quote about not matching lines and why dictating is better than reacting
-Getting out of your players' way as a coach
-Getting out of your way as a coach
-How mental weakness creates physical weakness
-What you think about is what you bring about
-A filter question to ask yourself before speaking to a player
Sticking to 'The Process'
Season 3 · Episode 6
mercredi 15 mai 2024 • Duration 48:40
Topics:
-A quote from Michigan Hockey HC, Brandon Naurato to begin the discussion
-Dusty May's hypothetical question: Would you rather make it to the Final 4 10 years in a row and not win the championship or win in once and never go back again?
-It isn't working or it isn't working 'YET'
-How to know if you have a Power or Force Coach based on win percentage trajectory
-T.J. Manastersky's mental model or Smoothie vs. Steak for making changes to team play
Inviting Feedback, Self-Determination Theory and Critical Point Players
Season 3 · Episode 5
mercredi 8 mai 2024 • Duration 43:00
Topics Discussed:
-The LA Kings best players speaking public on their lack of interest playing a system
-How not giving players self-determination principles of autonomy and relatedness can lead to division between coaches and players
-How the best forecheck is one the players want to do
-The Barry Sanders Razor: Assume players are closer to quitting on you than you think they are
(Article Link:https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/the-barry-sanders-razor)
Feedback Loops, Force, Fear and Finite Mindsets
Season 3 · Episode 4
mercredi 24 avril 2024 • Duration 52:01
Topics:
-Buffalo Sabres recent firing of Power Coach Granato for Force Coach Ruff
-Infinite vs. Finite Mindsets
-Letting 'The Process' Compound
-Fear and it's nature
-Chicago Steel, Detroit Red Wings, Tampa Bay Lightning, and other Infinite organization talk
Personal Inventory, Feedback Loops and Letting Things Compound
Season 3 · Episode 3
vendredi 19 avril 2024 • Duration 36:26
Topics Covered:
-Hunter Charneski's 'Personal Inventory' and it's application to coaching choices
-What is important and what is not and valuing those things
-How big rocks have longer feedback loops which is why we love focusing on the cookie bags (small things)
- Personal stories and tactics Mikhail has used in his current position
-Sam Hinkie, Simon Sinek, Greg Powers, Detroit Red Wings and the Infinite Game
Link to Hunter's Video Teaching on Personal Inventory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRtAgddvFOk
Catch Part 1 of this convo here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/02pMSzKTnyBPm62EKV6PK6
Power Laws and 'The Podcast Razor'
Season 3 · Episode 2
jeudi 18 avril 2024 • Duration 21:59
Topics Covered:
-Intro to Power Laws
-How they apply to players, coaches, and teams
-The Podcast Razor
-Insecurity vs. Security
-How 2 D1 coaches model this razor
Links:
Morey Pod: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7cSWAVJ5VehOBFrMrwGcjw
Power Laws: https://medium.com/@quantvc/power-laws-in-venture-capital-why-the-long-tail-matters-22e057c6fa34
Coaching Attracts Uncoachable People
Season 3 · Episode 1
vendredi 12 avril 2024 • Duration 44:44
Topics Discussed:
-Why certain industries attract certain archetypes
-Why coaching attracts the uncoachable even though every coach will say they are
-Pride vs. Humility
-What a displacement behavior is and why coaches should become aware of it
-Each player has a perceptual reality and you have to live in theirs, not yours as a leader
-Why "driving 100 miles and hour" as a coach creates problems addressing the 'real problems'
-Power Laws: Everyone says they are coachable but we can't all be... because the math doesn't math on that
Coach Prime, Coach Babcock and the Antithesis Principle
Season 2 · Episode 6
samedi 23 septembre 2023 • Duration 48:08
Topics-
-Judging people on a page in their massive story book
-Learning regardless of 'liking' a person
-Antithesis Principle
-Mike Babcock Columbus situation takeaways you won't hear most places
-Coaches being self-promoting is seen as 'bad'
People to dive in on
Article Referenced:
https://drewcarlsonhp.substack.com/p/a-thought-experiment-featuring-deion









