Bill Sullivan joins Prospect Watch

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On this episode we have invited coaching guru Bill "Sully" Sullivan from SullyHockey.com!!


Getting Familiar: 
Sullivan Hockey is a video coaching and analysis service. SH aims to enhance players’ on-ice awareness + creativity + production + and understanding of situational hockey. Sullivan Hockey dives into a player's individual game, and attempts to help their strengths, and improve upon their 
weaknesses via 1-on-1 attention and video analysis. Analysis that comes from not just the individual player's game, but player comparable at the Junior, College, and NHL levels. They aim to optimize their individual on-ice ability and understanding, which can then be implemented into any and all team systems. We help escalate a player's on-ice efficiency by learning off ice.


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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Warning, prospect Watch is not your average hockey podcast, and
that's okay with us. Our goal is to introduce you
to stars in the making from all over the world.
They may not be household names yet, but we assure
you they will be soon enough. Welcome to prospect Watch.

(00:44):
Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the next episode of prospect
Watch with your host ron Mont Steel Flyers. Hey, folks,
how you doing, man? I gotta tell you what. We
got an awesome, awesome show set off for you here
to go, and we've got a lot of things to
get into. Let's just get right to it. Okay, Hello,
and welcome to prospect Watch, a podcast that focuses solely

(01:06):
and discover focuses solely on discovery of young talent in
the game today from all reaches of the world. Only
this time we don't have a talent with us. We
got a talent coach with us this time. That's right, folks,
we have been graced and honored with the great Bill

(01:26):
Sullivan from Sullivan Hockey. Thank you Bill for joining us
on the show. Thank you so much, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Thank you for having me. Looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Awesome, awesome, awesome. So, for those of you who don't
really know who Bill or Sully as we like to
call him is. Let's get you familiar with what's going
on here. Sullivan Hockey is a video coaching and analyst service.
Sullivan Hockey aims to enhance players on ice awareness and creativity, production,
and understanding of situational hockey. Sullivan Hockey dives into a

(01:58):
player's individual game and a tempts to help their strengths
and improve upon their weaknesses via one on one attention
and video analysis. I got to tell you, some folks,
this guy has been doing this for all the right reasons,
and he's doing it for all the right players out there.
And I can't wait to get into some of these questions.
So what do you think, coach? You ready, let's do
it all right? Here we go. So the first question

(02:21):
I got for you is this, how in the world
did you start Sullivan Hockey?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Oh? Man? So I was lucky to play a little
bit once upon a time, okay, you know, finish up
with my college hockey career, and I moved to you know,
moved to the big city and the Queens and then
lived in and worked in New York. And then I
found myself back here in Pittsburgh, Okay. And I was
lucky enough to start scouting for the London Nights as

(02:52):
our one of our our American scout for the for
the Eastern US.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yea, yep.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
As I kind of got into it when you recruit,
because scouting at the OHL at the time was much
more recruiting than scouting, you see, it really was. You
start to build these relationships with the kids, not just
the ones that you draft, but maybe other ones you
were interested in. You carry these relationships and we kind
of I started to do video with some of the

(03:18):
guys a little bit here and there over the years,
and then it just kind of the video bug grabbed
me a little bit and then I really branched off
from there in terms of what what could be done
and how I was going to teach and it. I
wish I had a more definitive way. Hey, here's what happened,
but it just kind of blossomed over the last handful

(03:38):
of years.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Okay, Okay, And so how how many years have you
been doing this?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'd say I'd say five or so, five or so
years where I've taken on clients and been doing it,
not full time. I'm full time now, but i'd say
five or six years of doing video with clients.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yes, wow, okay, that's awesome. So now how do how
did the kids find you? I mean, how do these
players find you? What is what's this process of how
a player gets to come under your tutelage? I mean like,
do you travel to them? Do they come to you?
How does this whole thing work? Well?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
First and foremost, because I still I do scouts still,
you know, for London and the OHL, I'm in the
rinks a lot. However, doing the video work, I also
have to be sitting exactly where I am right now
as well, so I can do all the videos. So
it's a little bit of it's a little bit of everything.
Where I'm in the ring, so I get to know

(04:41):
the kids coming up and their families and obviously their
agents and representation. But because I'm lucky enough to work
with a number of the kids, I'm sure we're going
to touch base on at some point. And the kids
that I'm just you know, blessed to be working with,
I'm now finding, not finding, but I'm now a lot
of the agencies will come to me directly. And for

(05:04):
guys who are upcoming on the On the rare occasions,
you know, maybe if I have a few spots left
for a season, I will reach out to somebody I'm
interested in. But the majority of how people or how
we start working together is either organic. We just know
each other through the rinks or the agencies, you know, set.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Up an interview and okay, okay, wow, okay. So I
think that goes to say a lot about what you're doing, Sally.
If if you're having the agencies coming directly to you
and you're not even having to reach out to these guys, right, Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
I lucked out. I lucked out. Just try to just
try to get along with people. And you know, my
dad always used to say, it doesn't cost you a
cent to be nice to people, right, So you try
to be nice to people, and you know, you get
a lot. I find that I get along with people
because of that. And you know, not not trying to
be braggadosius or anything, but people like to interact and
work with people they get along with, you.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Know exactly exactly, And you kind of have to have
that kind of personality to do what you do, right,
you know what I mean, Like you've got to be
able to work with just about anybody, because you're gonna
have a lot of guys coming to you and looking
to you for you know, leadership and things of that nature.
So let's do that. How do you motivate these players
that you're coaching. I mean, I know these guys are

(06:24):
all pretty much driven young men, but what are some
of the ways you get them to accomplish their goals?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
So every player is different. Goes without saying, I see
myself as a cornerman. I don't know if you're a
boxing guy at all, but Angelo Dundee was a trainer,
Custom Motto was a trainer, and they had all these
tyson I consider myself Boudini Brown or Budini Brown was
the corner man for Ali. So when you come back

(06:52):
to the corner, okay, he's he's splashing, he's splashing water
for Ali. Lets him know he's the greatest. But if
he's kind above the he's got to sew them up.
So for to give you an example, if a player
is doing great and are averaging a point and a
half a game, like, let's look at why I'm gonna
splash water on them. Let him know they're the champion.
Get them back out there, make sure they're feeling good

(07:14):
and building them up and letting them know why they're
having success. But what if they're lacking creativity on their
entries or their boots post pass or to stationary, or
their initial punches in the wrong direction, or their passenger
tendencies in the ozone. Now that's a cut above the
eye that we got to stitch up a little bit.
And then when they come back every year, every time
we meet, now we're we're just working on these different things,

(07:38):
and we focus on different things. But as you get
to know the individual players, you get to know does
he need more rainbows pumped into them? Does he need
a little stern fist? And everybody is different, you know.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, that's awesome and I and so you get to
spend enough time with these guys to get that point
with them.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yes, I if I could work with one hundred guys,
I would. There's only so many hours in the day, right,
I can only work with so many players. But because
of that, I'm in there with them. I'm in the trenches.
I don't miss a shift. Well, I'm not in the trenches,
per se. I'm sitting safely right here while they're in

(08:22):
the gear, you know, yeah, right, But I'm not missing anything.
You know. If somebody brings me on, I'm with them
the whole way through the year, and we're going to
be in it together. And I meet with I meet
with everybody a very good amount throughout the year, not
too much because they need time to work on the
things we were going over. But it might be a
little bit more at certain times, a little bit less

(08:43):
at certain times. But because I can only take on
so many players, I think it's a good thing for
both them and me that we're all in it together
for the year, you know exactly.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
And the fact that you're taking on just enough to
where you can still, you know, spend that one on
one time with each of those players to get them
to where they need to go, you know what I mean.
So you're not stretching yourself out and you're and then
at that point, now you're cheating the guys, you know
what I mean, because you're stretched out.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Right, That's right, that's right. You can't just be, at
least in my opinion, I can't just be. I'm I'm
one person, and if if there was enough hours, I would,
but it can't just take on guys for the sake
of taking on guys. And I'm very thankful and blessed
in everything now that I'm at a point where I
get to be picky and choosy a little bit, and

(09:35):
it makes it it makes it fun for me that
I get to work with players that I enjoy watching,
you know, like that's something that's something that not everybody
gets to do. If you coach a team, and I'm
sure you get along with all your kids, maybe you don't,
but I promise you, if you're a coach of a team,
you don't enjoy everything everybody does all the times, and

(09:58):
neither do I. But I I like these kids and
like the way they play, and we get along and
we build that relationship. But it's it's it's a neat
part of all this awesome.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And it's like you said before when we were talking
off camera, it takes a village. It really does take
a village for each one of these kids to get
to where they need to go. I mean, it starts
with their billet families. It starts with their own families
for one, Oh yeah, you know, right then it starts
with their billet families. Right then all the coaches that
they've had through out their entire years. You know, all

(10:32):
the all the junior hockeys that they played all the
way up through you know what I mean. So okay,
So now this is the part where I'm really excited about. Okay,
can you give me a list of players that you've
trained in the past. I can, I can.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I can give you and give you some many ways.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
This week is the upcoming NHL draft.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
So yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Coming from the past few drafts, been lucky in enough
to yell at Trevor connolly and and Quentin Musty, who
are first round picks of recent years. Uh congratulations, Blake
Montgomery and Aaron Minettian who are high picks. Brandon's Foboa,
Matt me. These are all guys who have gone in
the past few NHL drafts. What I'm excited about is

(11:21):
is this upcoming draft. I I joke with people, I
could work one hundred years in hockey and I could
never have a draft class like this. Again that I'm
lucky enough to work with these kids. It's it's it's
very it's it's neat. But the guys include h James
Hagen's uh, Lyndon Lakovic, who I know you've had a
conversation with, Yes, Sir, Billy zon In, Shane Van Saggy,

(11:45):
Henry Prestovitch Owen Martin, Liam Kilfoyle who you've.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
He's another Prospect Watch alum.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, great, great alumn there Will Sharp Jordan Gavin another alumni.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
There, Yep, another Prospect Watch alum yep.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
And Diego but a Zony. It's it's a group that,
like I said, I could work one hundred years and
it just happened to happen this way. The guys that
I had my six class, which was last year's draft,
but I had a lot of guys who happened to
be late birthdays in that group of kids I just named.
So they're in this year draft, a few of sevens,
and I fly out to LA on Thursday, and I

(12:23):
cannot wait to just be a grad You know, I
consider the graduation day for those.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Guys, and that's exactly what this is. You know that,
that's exactly what this culminates to. When when when you
see these kids get their name called and they get
to walk across the stage and grab that jersey and
hold it up to the world. I mean that that's
got to just make everybody in the village feel really good.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
You know what I mean, Right, it's it's it's why
you do it. And don't get me wrong, there's a
lot more work that needs to be done after that,
but it's one of the it's one of those carrots
you've had dangling in front of yourself since you were
old enough to know what hockey is. In the fact exactly,
we're there, and I literally just had a conversation five
minutes before we got on with you with one of
the kids I just named, and I was like, there's

(13:07):
nothing you can do. There's no more you can do,
Like there's no more overtime shift, there's no more big check,
there's no more big apple you can get. So this
next week and when you're sitting at the at the
Peacock Theater this week, just enjoy it. To have on
your face the whole time. There's nothing left to do.
We're in enjoyment time.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
You know, Yeah, the work is gonna come. Oh yeah, right,
the work's gonna come. But you've done a lot of work,
so you're you're at that point now where you can
sit back and kind of enjoy some of the fruits.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Oh, absolutely, at least for a week or two.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Then, I mean, right right, So, speaking of enjoying some
of the fruits, I want to talk about some of it.
And you've touched on it a little bit too with
some of the players that you named that are going
to be taken in this year's upcoming draft. But I
know that you've had some successes and I want you
to touch on some of the one of the greatest

(14:01):
successes that you've had and and if I if I
recall correctly, it was this year with the London Nights
winning the Memorial Memorial Cup.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
Correct, Yeah, yeah, that was that one. That one definitely
tops the list.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
I'd say, congratulations, man, that is awesome, awesome.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Thank you very much, especially after the how how last
year kind of uh ended in and yeah, they were
on a mission. And I'm very lucky to be a
microscopic part of that organization in a small way and
be able to I love being a part of a team.
I know I teach individuals, but I always like being

(14:39):
a part of a team and in building and being
in part of that that environment. And I've you know,
I know, we'll talk about it, but I've learned so
much in London over the years, and that the just
the emotions of going of winning a Memorial Cup and
to me that it's it's just one of the hardest
trophies in sports.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
To win.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
You have to go through full you know, best of
seven to four round playoffs, and then you have to
work at a tournament with the four best teams in
the world in junior hockey. It just you need a
lot of things need to go right. And and not
just that, but that all the kids that and the staff,
everybody that did everything in London and building up for

(15:19):
these three or four years, that is something that it
was one of the best, the most experiences in my life,
and I wish everybody could experience it, but that will
on the team level, that's gonna be hard the top
from a looking at this selfishly that question from a
very narrow minded.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Uh point of view.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
We we touched on. We touched on the draft. The
draft is it's just it's the it's so neat every year,
there's nothing like it. And and I'm lucky enough to
that this is the caliber of player that I'm lucky
enough to work with. And and that is graduation day
and just to be there and see them, you know

(15:59):
what they been working their whole life for all those
guys that you know I named earlier who went through it.
Every time, I don't care if they're picked first or
second overall or two hundred and forty third overall. When
I hear the guy's name and we spent countless hours
right here on the zoom going over things and it
culminated in their name getting selected by NHL team, it

(16:24):
is euphoric every time. And I absolutely, I absolutely can't
even express and then on a very specific example just
because you had them on in Linden Lakovic. I've been
lucky enough to work with Linden you know, for a
number of years now, and he has blossomed and developed

(16:46):
so much of he has every years. He is such
an awesome young man and matured and he's done a
number of things. But one of the specific things that
you know, I as a concept I teach called numbers
non numbers. Long story short, it's about entering the zone.
And Linden has blossomed from a guy who I would

(17:08):
you know, I knew what he was going to be
doing over the coming over the blue line. His decision
making had a lot of room for improvement and what
he does coming over the blue line now, his creative
entry is understanding when he has numbers versus non numbers
and his escapes, and it's one of his biggest arsenal
or weapons in his arsenal now. And the fact that
we spent so many hours right here working on that

(17:31):
specific thing and to see in the draft year for
that to become one of his one of his weapons.
It's and I even asked him that, you know, if
it was okay for me to mention this, because it
was a very you know, I'm pumping his tires, but
it's I can't say enough how he's developed and how
this one particular area has kind of blossomed. And I'm

(17:53):
very proud of them, you know. So that's a neat
win for us, you know.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
You know, it's funny that you mentioned that because I
recall him actually speaking of that in our interview. Yeah,
how he views coming into the zone, because I believe
that was one of the questions that we asked him, like,
you know, how do you enter the zone? What are
you looking to pass? You look into you know what
I mean, one of those kinds of things, and that

(18:17):
was one of the things that he had talked about
in his interview with us that he very much was
appreciative of what you were teaching him about how he
now looks at things a little differently now when he
comes across the blue line.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
So, I mean, listen, there's a takes a village. There's
a number of people who are always helping him in
this one particular area. It was just always a focal point,
and he's done so well at it that, like I
have names of concepts, different things I go over with guys,
I've I've renamed this concept the Lackovic role because he's

(18:51):
done it so well.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
So there you go, all right, shout hey, by the way,
shout out to Lyndon Lackavic. By the way, the new
Lackovic role here it so than hockey. So check you. Okay.
So we kind of touched on quite a few of
the other questions that I had for you here, but
there's one here that I do kind of want to

(19:12):
get into. And I'm not really sure how to say
this or what to do, But do you do you
have to have some kind of education or certification to
do what you're doing, or is this something that you've
just developed over the years and just was able to
to just get to that point.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah, No, it's it's definitely something that the latter where
I've developed developed over the years. I've had to figure
out what's the most what's the best way to go
about it in time, because like time is the biggest thing.
I have to watch all these guys shifts. Then I
have to chop it up, break it down and then
figure out which part I want to go over. Then
I have to sectionalize that stuff. Like we could go

(19:50):
all the texts and o's of how I go about everything,
but there's only again, there's only so many hours in
the day, right, But no, I've I've kind of you know,
I have my my process now and and there no,
there's no credentials per se, but being a sponge in
the London Nights organization, and what I've learned in the

(20:11):
back coaching room of Dale Hunter's office with Mark Hunter
and Rob Simpson and just sitting.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
By by the way, covet those coaches because those are
some really awesome people.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
By the way, they don't make them too much better than.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
No, they don't.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
And and the knowledge that I've gained just by sitting
in that back room and the knowledge that passes through
that office on a nightly baby, just listening to people
talk because every time there's a game, the assistant general
manager of the you know, the Rangers or the Panthers
or everybody's in there, and then the then the area
of scouts, and then you know there's they go back

(20:49):
there and they hang out for and they chat, and yeah,
I'm lucky enough to you know, be in that world
and take some of the information I've gathered over the years,
not just from them, but other people in the hockey
world as well, and then I kind of made the
whole the whole video process. I'm the one thing I'm
very happy that I've done is that I've done it

(21:10):
my own way and under my own umbrella. And whether
I'm right or wrong, it's stuff that I developed with
my guys. They helped me develop it. Right, it's ours
right or wrong. It's not me exactly, somebody else's stuffs
here and there. But that's one thing I'm proud of.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Awesome, Awesome, and I think it shows. It shows in
the players that you get to coach, and then it
also shows and the goals that they've accomplished. Do you
know what I mean? So clearly you're doing something right, Sally.
I mean, geez, okay. So now I know you kind
of teach them about, you know, how to do things

(21:51):
on the ice and everything else like that, But do
you also kind of show them how to eat? Because
I know that nutrition is a very important part of
the development of the mind in the body. Is that
something that you do or is that something that they
get from somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
No, So what's interesting is this is another thing once
you as you go up the ladder and you have
you're a part of an agency and a part of
a team. This the the the nutrition. It will very
much be under usually the team or the agency's umbrella.
Now some make kind of specific you know, video plays,

(22:25):
video teaching groups or nutrition groups may work together. And
I've actually had some conversations with people over the years.
The one thing I can tell you in this area
is a player that's up for the draft this year
in Shane Van Saggy plays a Mission Greate, one of
my favors, you know, one of the best kids. I've
known him for years and they don't you know, great family.

(22:46):
The importance of Shane's discovery of the nutritional part of
his journey to try to be a professional hockey player.
It cannot be under uh, not underestimated, but under you know,
lacking the word here. It has been so so crucial
and so important in his development to figure out the

(23:08):
best way to maintain his body throughout the year. And
it's it's an interesting area that I'm still continuing to
learn more about. But for Shane specifically, just where he's
developed to now from where he was when he was
in Saint Louis playing U fourteen and U sixteen, and
we used to talk about, hey, he's a power forward.

(23:29):
You have to you know, we got to find your
contact every shift, find contact, find contact early on in
the program. Not for a number of reasons. He's gonnadjusted
to junior hockey when he was at the US national team,
but he was fine. He was having some trouble doing that.
And thinking back to that to where we are now,
where he's at Michigan State, and that almost seems funny

(23:50):
to say, because he finds his piece of meat evil
shift no matter what, and that's why he's going to
be so coveted by NHL teams. But I'm bringing all
that up because it stems back to the nutritional part
of everything, and and how important it is because he's
able to keep his body up and going enough to

(24:12):
be able to find that contact you.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Know, yep, yeah, and then withstand it.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
What I mean, because like, let's face it, when you're
out there making contact, you're you're exerting a lot of
energy yourself, you know what I mean. And so so
that that that's very good to be able to have
that nutrition to fall back on it.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
And being a power forward I mean two way defensemen
and a goalie, but being a power forward, in my opinion,
that just where it is on the mind. And yeah,
and what you have to do because you have to
be good enough to make plays with the puck and
you have a lot to do, but you have to
go and hurrow your body into people exactly, and it's
it's difficult to do. So that's why they're so coveted,

(24:51):
because those guys are few and far between.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Now exactly exactly. So I got to tell you something, man,
this is my last questions here for you, okay, And
and and we already kind of you really kind of
already answered this. But because you spend a lot of
time with him. It's not it's not all just about hockey.

(25:15):
It's about life, right, Like you said, it takes a village,
you know what I mean. So, do some of the
guys come to you about some of their personal problems
and stuff? Do you get you get to that point
where you get to talk to about some of those
kinds of I mean, you know, look, hockey is is
life for them, and and they need that time to

(25:36):
you know, smell the roses, but they also need that
shoulder to lead on, so to speak. You know what
I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
I do. I do, And I think it's a good question,
and I'm I think that's the majority of what I do.
You know, I'm not a not a therapist or you know,
psychiatrist or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Well you you didn't realize you're going to be a
video editor and a psychologist at the same time, right,
you know?

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, that's right, That definitely a version of that. But
I'm here. I always say I tell the guys whenever
I'm you know, starting to get to know them a
little bit, because at the beginning of the relationship it's
a lot of me talking and then as we go
hopefully they start to go more and more. But in
our first zoom call, you know, I always tell them
I'm here to bs with you. I am here to

(26:21):
talk hockey and talk whatever you want to. Send me
a clip of this, send a clip of that. Yes,
we do videos every so often in this amount, but
we a lot of guys should have interaction, you know,
we we do have interaction almost every day. They snaped
me a picture of you know, what they did in
the gym or or they're watching this show. And everybody's different.

(26:44):
There's guys that I speak to more and less, like
by the not to bring them up again, but like,
without me looking at my phone, I'm positive I'll have
a message from Lyndon Lakovic just in the time we've
been talking, right, because that's got a good bit, right.
But my whole thing is to keep their confidence up.

(27:04):
They I am their corner man, and I need them
to know that they're they're the greatest and and be
positive energy, but also let them know when they suck
in a productive way. Yeah, there you go, but you
gotta be positive and and you know, we go over everything.
But at the end of every zoom I want them
walking away feeling like, Okay, I got something new, I

(27:27):
got some energy, or Okay, now I know why I
did that. It's I'm a relationship guy, and I'm lucky
enough to again enough to keep using that term. But
this is I built this thing into where this is
what I do for my living now, and I take
it very very serious and im and I'm helping these
guys in a very microscopic way. But I'm there whether

(27:49):
they need to, you know, just talk about their creative
entries or their playoff the puck, or if you know,
they just need to not talk hockey for a day too.
So it's nice to again, corner man. That's how I
see myself. Everybody's I love it, see that in a
different way.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
I love the analogy, by the way, I love the
analogy because I'm I'm a I'm definitely a boxing enthusiast.
Muhammad Ali was definitely one of my fabes. I got
to meet Leon Spinks, uh and I got to meet
Joe Frasier. Really yeah, definitely a boxing guy. So I
know what a corner man is. So you definitely hit
the nail on the head for that one, right.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
There's a corner man, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (28:31):
Well, so I can't thank you enough for being on
the show and giving our viewers some great insight on
some of these players, uh, and and and all the
things that you do and help them realizing uh their
dream of playing hockey for a living. I think we
put a lot of information out there and and I
really feel that this is a very valuable service that

(28:52):
you provide. And and and we've spoken to a lot
of some of the same players, and and and I
gotta tell you, I'm I'm looking forward to what you're
gonna do here and how you're gonna encourage these guys
moving forward, and and and why don't you tell the
folks how they can find you and where they can
reach you?

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Sally, Yeah, no problem. So Sullyhockey dot com s U
L l Y Hockey dot com is is my website
and from there you can find all the you know,
kind of general basis on everything I do. I Billy
Sullivan Hockey on Instagram and on Twitter as well, pretty
pretty straightforward on on the on the social media with

(29:32):
those two accounts and then YouTube, every single guy I
work with has all, you know, I keep their highlight
reels throughout the year, so there's a yeah number. If
you're interested in any of those guys on YouTube, we
got plenty of video for them to watch, and then
you know that's that's that's where you can find me
and I and listen. Thank you very much for having

(29:52):
me on. It's always fun talk hockey, and thank you
for talking to the prospects so we can listen to it.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Awesome for sure, It's an honor to have you on.
So we will have all of Sully's information and links
here in the description. By the way, the show will
be scrolling his website, so you'll be able to check
out his website as well too, so we'll have all
his links and everything in the description and everything. Please
hop on over to Twitter and give him a follow

(30:19):
for sure, and any players out there, you know you
guys need some coaching, head him up because he's definitely
the main man pots and pans for sure. For sure.
I'm your host, Ron Steele Flyers, and this has been
another episode of Prospect Watch, and we would like to
say thank you all very much for checking us out
and we'll catch you all on the next one.