Hockey IQ Podcast

Hockey IQ Podcast

Greg Revak interviews the best hockey minds around hockey IQ, hockey sense, training, and more

Episodes

November 12, 2025 56 mins

On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with ice hockey coach, Jamieson McVicar.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:

  • Creating game transferable practice plans
  • How to provide feedback that stick and empowers players
  • CLA as an organizational philosophy
  • Time under tension & Simplification not decompesition
  • Skating away from pressure vs into pressure
  • Importance of reflection time
  • Many little coaching hacks you can  ta...
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On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with ice hockey skating expert, Christian Grunnah.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:

  • Skating lessons learned from National Champion speed skating father
  • Weight distribution and transfer within ice skating
  • Gym work for ice skating
  • Value in slowing down to work on proper form principles
  • Importance of glide
  • How to maintain and gain speed through turns

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October 15, 2025 46 mins

On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with professional hockey player, Alina Muller of Switzerland.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:

  • Value of pushing yourself, choosing hard, and seeing what good looks like
  • Importance of off-ice work and time away from hockey
  • Winning Broze Medal at the Olympics at age 15
  • Training shooting by what actually is realistic
  • Practice habits
  • Preparation for performance... mentally and p...
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October 1, 2025 49 mins

On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with hockey content creator, Anthony of Hockey Psychology.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:

  • Weaponizing an asset rather than just having an asset
  • Importance and benefits of off the puck play
  • Why Macklin Celebrini is elite off the rush
  • How NHLers are using modern skating techniques to their advantage
  • Benefits of being reliable and consistent, illustrated by Sascha Barkov
  • Shoo...
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September 17, 2025 61 mins

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...
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September 3, 2025 75 mins

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...
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August 20, 2025 55 mins

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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July 23, 2025 54 mins

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...
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July 9, 2025 50 mins

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...
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June 25, 2025 44 mins

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...
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June 11, 2025 43 mins

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...
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June 4, 2025 49 mins

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...
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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 ...
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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...
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March 26, 2025 56 mins

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...
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March 12, 2025 57 mins


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
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February 26, 2025 56 mins

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...
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February 12, 2025 58 mins

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...
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November 20, 2024 36 mins

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...

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