Blog: Coaching the Bookends

Jonathan Lindahl has a fantastic article on LetsPlayHockey.com titled Coaching the Bookends.  It is about the perspective he has gained from coaching both the Junior Gold and Mite levels (the bookends) for the Wayzata Youth Hockey Association in Minnesota.  Here is an excerpt:

As Mite coaches we shouldn’t try to develop hockey sense through tactical instruction, but instead by setting the foundation for how it will be indirectly developed in years to come – through fundamentally-sound skating, shooting, and passing techniques. That’s the first and most important piece.