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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:20 pm After the first couple of years of AAA, you start to learn who the good coaches are. There are not many that are good at communication, on ice ability and have full on passion for the game. You either get the, know it all fat Dinosaur who does the same things as he did 20 years ago, the youngish half Witt ex player with no communication skills/ education or the try hard coach, that never played on a meaningful level, but is great at creating the business side of hockey. Usually on 8-12 place teams and just rakes in money for his hockey school. Toronto is just an over saturated market of coaches without much talent in all the facets. You look at American programs and they are just so much more organized and put way more effort into development. Most of the coaches here, just do the same drills all year hardly ever stop to correct the kids or add progressions. I can count on my hand the coaches skates that i have left and said “ man that coach is top notch, that was a great skate!” Most of the time, I think man that guy did not even talk to my kid , can barely skate but made BANK running a skate with 20 kids at $75 bucks a pops.

Who are the two best and two worst coaches in the loop in your opinion?

Depends on what you think best and worst means. Most of the coaches are not focused on developing skills. They are just there to win and play the politics of recruiting. That often gets confused with being a good coach just because they have a winning record or a few trophies. However, it is on the parents to find outside skills trainers that can fix your issues. The coaches job during the season is to get buy in to team systems. If they show up on time, treat the kids well and really put an effort into helping the kid grow as a player and person, then they are a good coach.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 3:03 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:30 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:20 pm After the first couple of years of AAA, you start to learn who the good coaches are. There are not many that are good at communication, on ice ability and have full on passion for the game. You either get the, know it all fat Dinosaur who does the same things as he did 20 years ago, the youngish half Witt ex player with no communication skills/ education or the try hard coach, that never played on a meaningful level, but is great at creating the business side of hockey. Usually on 8-12 place teams and just rakes in money for his hockey school. Toronto is just an over saturated market of coaches without much talent in all the facets. You look at American programs and they are just so much more organized and put way more effort into development. Most of the coaches here, just do the same drills all year hardly ever stop to correct the kids or add progressions. I can count on my hand the coaches skates that i have left and said “ man that coach is top notch, that was a great skate!” Most of the time, I think man that guy did not even talk to my kid , can barely skate but made BANK running a skate with 20 kids at $75 bucks a pops.

Who are the two best and two worst coaches in the loop in your opinion?

Depends on what you think best and worst means. Most of the coaches are not focused on developing skills. They are just there to win and play the politics of recruiting. That often gets confused with being a good coach just because they have a winning record or a few trophies. However, it is on the parents to find outside skills trainers that can fix your issues. The coaches job during the season is to get buy in to team systems. If they show up on time, treat the kids well and really put an effort into helping the kid grow as a player and person, then they are a good coach.

So the best coaches are the ones who run the best systems, and get the players to buy in to those systems. The best systems win the most games. TYN and JRC are the most fundamentally and system sound teams by far, no surprise they’ve both been in the finals 4 years in a row. We had a player from VK come to our team last year and he didn’t even know what F1, F2 or F3 meant, he had never been taught those basic terms at VK.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:23 pm The coaching in GTHL is not as good as the US teams. The talent is better here, much deeper pools, but in the big tournaments they get out coached in the big games. Silversticks are the trophy that matter the most. During all the big tournaments the US teams have an edge. It will be interesting this year, TYN, VK are supercharged and should be able to take out the CB, TI AND DLC with consistency. A lot of talk about players coming to G from down south before hitting. It will change the landscape

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:05 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:23 pm The coaching in GTHL is not as good as the US teams. The talent is better here, much deeper pools, but in the big tournaments they get out coached in the big games. Silversticks are the trophy that matter the most. During all the big tournaments the US teams have an edge. It will be interesting this year, TYN, VK are supercharged and should be able to take out the CB, TI AND DLC with consistency. A lot of talk about players coming to G from down south before hitting. It will change the landscape

GTHL teams won 2 of the 3 biggest tournaments last year. Marlies early bird and JRC. All the biggest U.S. teams were in those stacked tournaments and lost. The only tournament the G teams didn’t win was silver stick. No Americans coming to the G this year and hitting is next year.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:05 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:23 pm The coaching in GTHL is not as good as the US teams. The talent is better here, much deeper pools, but in the big tournaments they get out coached in the big games. Silversticks are the trophy that matter the most. During all the big tournaments the US teams have an edge. It will be interesting this year, TYN, VK are supercharged and should be able to take out the CB, TI AND DLC with consistency. A lot of talk about players coming to G from down south before hitting. It will change the landscape

GTHL teams won 2 of the 3 biggest tournaments last year. Marlies early bird and JRC. All the biggest U.S. teams were in those stacked tournaments and lost. The only tournament the G teams didn’t win was silver stick. No Americans coming to the G this year and hitting is next year.

Marlies and Jrc are not big tournaments… GTHl dad’s always think they are the centre of the universe. Silver stick is the only one that matters. 0 championships. The gthl will get better as a lot of outside players will flock to the GTHL now. The only thing you guys need to worry about is your little Johnnies ice time… there is real talent coming to take those minutes away. You son will be a 3rd line option on a top 6 team and that scares you.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:05 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:23 pm The coaching in GTHL is not as good as the US teams. The talent is better here, much deeper pools, but in the big tournaments they get out coached in the big games. Silversticks are the trophy that matter the most. During all the big tournaments the US teams have an edge. It will be interesting this year, TYN, VK are supercharged and should be able to take out the CB, TI AND DLC with consistency. A lot of talk about players coming to G from down south before hitting. It will change the landscape

GTHL teams won 2 of the 3 biggest tournaments last year. Marlies early bird and JRC. All the biggest U.S. teams were in those stacked tournaments and lost. The only tournament the G teams didn’t win was silver stick. No Americans coming to the G this year and hitting is next year.

Marlies and Jrc are not big tournaments… GTHl dad’s always think they are the centre of the universe. Silver stick is the only one that matters. 0 championships. The gthl will get better as a lot of outside players will flock to the GTHL now. The only thing you guys need to worry about is your little Johnnies ice time… there is real talent coming to take those minutes away. You son will be a 3rd line option on a top 6 team and that scares you.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 10:05 pm

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 8:23 pm The coaching in GTHL is not as good as the US teams. The talent is better here, much deeper pools, but in the big tournaments they get out coached in the big games. Silversticks are the trophy that matter the most. During all the big tournaments the US teams have an edge. It will be interesting this year, TYN, VK are supercharged and should be able to take out the CB, TI AND DLC with consistency. A lot of talk about players coming to G from down south before hitting. It will change the landscape

GTHL teams won 2 of the 3 biggest tournaments last year. Marlies early bird and JRC. All the biggest U.S. teams were in those stacked tournaments and lost. The only tournament the G teams didn’t win was silver stick. No Americans coming to the G this year and hitting is next year.

Marlies and Jrc are not big tournaments… GTHl dad’s always think they are the centre of the universe. Silver stick is the only one that matters. 0 championships. The gthl will get better as a lot of outside players will flock to the GTHL now. The only thing you guys need to worry about is your little Johnnies ice time… there is real talent coming to take those minutes away. You son will be a 3rd line option on a top 6 team and that scares you.

The gthl has the top 4 teams in Ontario in pretty much every age group. There aren’t enough good players from outside the league to make much of a difference. You are obviously the jealous parent of some pylon who’s stuck playing in the OMHA or alliance. Thats why you spend your free time reading about a league your kid doesn’t play in. I’d be upset too if my kid wasn’t good enough to break out of those shitty leagues. Remember your OMHA champion got blown out 5-1 by the 4th place GTHL team last year
You not like us!

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Guest wrote: ↑Tue Jun 17, 2025 7:12 pm MM, MA, XZ, JB, EW, KL all got cut and put on the B team one week before Montreal tournament not cool. I know people asked Karen why but she said she did not care she just said “that’s hockey”. Do your homework about Teakle he screwed his partner out of his share of the business these are not good people. Play with snakes and you get bit.

It’s the TM cuts, XZ and JB families starting this, you clearly don’t know how to win I don’t blame them for moving on. VK is the new squad to beat.

Funny how those two ended up, one winning the tournament two being the top G player on the leaderboard

What did XZ do to get cut? Won all his games and never lost. Good for him for playing with the Reapers now.

This reapers spring team beat Everest last month to win Quadrant. They beat XZ on East Coast team too. Won the whole tournament. Why would they pick him up so late and start him at Kings of Spring? Doesn’t even have a jersey to wear. Tiny blue practice jersey. Whatever, Everest don’t need a goalie in nets anyway, they should play without.

They needed a goalie today. PJ let in four goals on four shots, and Everest was trailing until they shortened the bench in the third to bail him out. He played the second game too, while the Manitoba goalie who came in for XZ just opened the door on the bench all day.

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Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 9:54 am Coaching is most important ice time is second most

I agree that coaching is the most important thing for kids and their development.

I have coached kids in the past that excelled, made higher level teams and struggled because their new coach couldn't tap in to what made them successful under me.

Next for me would be practice. How you practice is how you play and again it does go back to coaching. Having good practices helps players in games. My philosophy is that in warm ups, you work on your skills (skating, shooting, passing, etc) and then your drills should be set up so that they mimic what kids would see in a game. I have found this to be very successful. So many times, I see coaches running 3 on 0 drills, or 5 on 0 drills and it's just so unrealistic that those drills will help these players in a game situation.

Third for me would be ice time. I do believe in development and that you need to be on the ice to get better. You try to get all your lines to play in all situations but at a certain point (normally mid way through 3rd) you have to go with who's rolling or who's better in those situations. Playing a kid 1 shift a period is not going to get him better and he's not going to be prepared for playing late in the 3rd if they haven't seen that situation before.

This asshole thinks he’s Paul Maurice

Where is he wrong though?

I take it you have never coached before or if you have, you have never been successful.

It doesn't take long to figure out who is a good coach or not.

By “he” you mean the comment that you wrote yourself

Your comments are vague and common sense, it’s pretty obvious you’re not familiar with the coaches or kids in the age group. This isn’t AA, A, or the ORHL bud. Now back to your hole.