The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey
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The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey by Bruce Driver
Shows how to teach the fundamental skills of passing, stickhandling, shooting, and checking. This book helps you survive your first practice and first game; match drills to ability; make practices safe, fun, and rewarding; improve your players and your team; reach all your players; and be the coach you never had.
Bruce Driver, born in 1962, has been playing hockey since the age of three. He played minor league hockey in Toronto (where he was born) for fourteen years, winning four consecutive city championships. He served as team captain for the University of Wisconsin Badgers his junior year and went on to play with the Canadian Olympic team in Sarajevo in 1984, his senior year. He then went on to win the coveted Calder Cup with the Maine Mariners (The NJ Devils American Hockey League affiliate at the time) before he entered the NHL at the end of 1984. Bruce played for the Devils for eleven years, serving as captain in 1991-1992 and assistant captain for the next three years. The Devils won the Stanley Cup in 1995. He spent his last three years in the NHL with the New York Rangers. He concluded his 922 NHL game career with ninety-six goals and four hundred eighty-six points. He has served as both head and assistant coach since 1999 at Morristown-Bear High School and the Montclair Hockey Club as well as Head Instructor at the Huron Hockey School and the New Jersey Devils Alumni Association Clinics. He and his wife, Tracy, have two children, Whitney, 16, and Dillon, 10. Hometown: Montville, NJ Clare Wharton has been immersed in youth hockey for more than ten years. Beginning as a "hockey mom" and observer, she developed an active love of the game. Clare is an English tutor who holds both a B.A. and M.A. in English. She is a newspaper columnist, a writer for a New Jersey parenting magazine, and a freelance author of numerous articles. Hometown: Parsippany, NJ
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780071430111 |
| ISBN 10 | 0071430113 |
| Title | The Baffled Parent's Guide to Coaching Youth Hockey |
| Author | Bruce Driver |
| Series | Baffled Parent's Guides |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 2004-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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