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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.

Guest wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:38 pm

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