Hockey IQ Podcast
Greg Revak interviews the best hockey minds around hockey IQ, hockey sense, training, and more
Episodes
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with hockey skating specialist, Marcie Kierpiec.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Teaching ice hockey skating technique and movement patterns.
- Maximizing reps during skating-focused practice
- Age-appropriate skating development
- Languaging to teach hockey skating
- Importance of gaining a feel for your skates and edges
- Fixing common hockey skating issues
- Linking strength training...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with soccer coach and English teacher, Nick Smallridge.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- How to give impact team talks between periods/halfs and after the game
- Quality questions asking... going beyond just asking open-ended questions
- Guiding attention and focus to improve coaching effectiveness
- Cueing players via intentions NOT mechanicals/technique
- Benefits of overplanning...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with hockey dad, Champs App founder, and curious hockey mind... Ray Tenenbaum.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Game play styles and tactics
- What scouts look for in a hockey player
- Situational play, eg. Zone entries
- Puck management
- Clean defensive feet
- And more into the details of the game and pieces that are helpful to improve performance
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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Coach Developer and Consultant, JP Nerbun.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Leadership development as experiential
- Awareness at the first step
- Self-Authored internal scorecard
- Increasing self-awareness with 4 practical tips
- Attribute of faster developers
- Navigating conflict
- Preparing for confliect
- Effectiveness vs efficiency
- Emotional regulation for coaches
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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Mental Performance coach, Cassidy Preston.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Managing frustration
- Reset routines
- Yo-yo Confidence vs Sustainable Confidence
- Internal vs external confidence sources
- Earning your confidence
- Handling praise and success
- Power of accurate self assessment
- Overcoming overthinking
- Accepting and committing
- When to challenge someone vs supporting someon...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Shakopee HS Ice Hockey Head Coach, Calvin Simon.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Finding balance between push and pull as a leader
- Value in feedback via observing and listening
- Group needs vs individual needs
- Being repetitive without being stale
- Teaching the team to look out for each other
- Praise in public with criticism in private
- Focus on your bobber
- Importance of diet...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with The Coaching Lab founder Jack Rolfe.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Self-reflection for both players and coaches
- Game-based learning techniques, challenges, and solutions
- Individualizing a team activity or game
- Quality question asking
- Why coaches should stand in multiple spots throughout an activity
- How to accelerate athletic learning
- Working backward to design a train...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with ice hockey coach Don Granato to discuss best practices, coaching evolutions, and nuanced issues faced by ice hockey players.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Attributes that lead to future success
- Effectiveness/Efficiency vs Talent/Skill
- Importance of having a willingness to do a role then grow from there
- False confidence vs real confidence
- Helping players understand t...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with ice hockey coach Don Granato to discuss best practices, coaching evolutions, and nuanced issues faced by ice hockey players.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Why development is critical to winning frequently
- Creating an environment that fosters a player's passion and grows a coach's influence
- Getting more out of your players
- Barometers for how well the coach...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with development coach Brian Slugocki to discuss best practices, coaching evolutions, and nuance issued faced by ice hockey players.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- What do players want out of playing ice hockey
- Characteristics in common with high achieving ice hockey players
- How to watch ice hockey if you want to improve
- Accurate self-assessment's place in becoming ...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with development coach Brian Slugocki to discuss best practices, coaching evolutions, and nuance issued faced by ice hockey players.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Overcoming anxiety and desire to be the perfect coach
- Evolution toward a collaborative approach
- How to coach all players, regardless of motivation
- Helping players gain a feel for the game
- How to help players an...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with former player turned entrepreneur & media personality, Jordan Schmaltz.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Reading the game from a defenseman's perspective
- Coaching up your teammates
- How to make the game easier
- Coffin corner
- Difference between AHL and NHL
- Importance of passing to handedness
- Communication is key
- Player identity and roles
- Carving out a roster spot and...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with strength and performance coach, Jon Stea.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Hockey specific strength & conditioning
- Learning to learn
- Intentionality within an improvement process
- Mental stability
- Athletic variability
- Minimum viable coaching & instruction
- Helping athletes become their own best coaches
- Keeping the most important thing the most important thing
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Skill Acquisition expert & Irish PE teacher, Philip O'Callaghan.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Games for game understanding
- Applying theory in a practical way
- Common issues of how players get in their own way and inhibit their ability to learn
- Why coaches should avoid giving answers to their athletes
- Importance of variability within skill acquisition
- Scaling...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Sweden Ice Hockey Association Director of education & research, John Lind.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Evidence-based development
- Benefits of bio-banding
- Body checking in women's hockey
- Shrinking rink and net sizes in youth hockey
- Scanning's correlation to performance success
- Practice design & activity selection
- Coach development
- Importance of quest...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we dive into our modern defensemen series. Episode 3 is all about great rush defending.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Playing passive vs aggressive rush defense
- Inside leverage and playing within the dots
- Rush defense footwork
- What surfing is in ice hockey
- How players are using surfing to kill plays early
- Reading the pinch in ice hockey...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we dive into our modern defensemen series. Episode 2 is all about great point play.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Shorting the offensive zone
- Difference in positioning and what that does
- Why scoring in the NHL is up over the past decade plus.
- How NHL league leading defensemen score goals
- Catching/receiving pucks at the point
- Common mis...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we dive into our modern defensemen series. Episode 1 is all about great defending.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Winning possession with position before possession
- Controlling an opponent's speed
- Proper pivoting
- Getting defensive stops
- Positioning to make defending easier
- Shorting the offensive zone.
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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with Adam Zlatkus, analyst with Along The Ice (YouTube, Instagram, etc.).
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- How Peter Forsberg changed hockey
- Genius on the Sedin twins
- Power of 'change of speed' & why not having the puck has it's benefits
- Technical & Tactical empahty
- The art and science of why goal scorers shoot...
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with U12 and High School coach, Mitchell Goodin.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- Metrics for player feedback
- Going beyond simply putting together a team
- How to create dynamic players instead of robots
- Games as a showcase of what you learned in practice
- "Good players can play on one foot and one edge at a time"
- Develo...
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