Simply the Best: Insights and Strategies from Great Hockey Coaches

Great Idea to interview some really good coaches. You can read about their coaching styles and approaches to certain situations, especially when it comes to dealing and managing players

This book is a must read for the dedicated hockey coach. The 12 coaches interviewed (pro, semi-pro and college) offer their philosophies on "leading" people. The other reviewer is correct. This is not a guide to developing strategy. Rather, a very effective way to explore how you evaluate and develop players, how you create team, how you develop yourself as a coach with a vision, and how you implement the vision. This book is an honest examination by the most successful coaches of their successes, failures, the challenges of being a coach, leading players, and balancing work and life. If you approach coaching hockey as a "calling," to help improve young men and women, you will read and re-read this book constantly.

An excellent book for any serious Hockey Coach. The insights about leadership and team building were outstanding. And these are some of the best Coaches in the business. Not an detailed X and O book but any Coach can utilize the concepts thatare discussed in the book.

This is a great book and a must for any hockey coach. Where else can you get the mind set of so many great coaches? The George Kingston section alone is priceless and I didnt even know who he was! This isnt a book on X's and O's. Its a book on motivation and leadership. Something that carries over into the "real" world....or at least anything outside of hockey.I use the info in this book everydayHighlights are George Kingston, Clare Drake, and Pat Quinn. Spend the $15-$20. Trust me

Good book. It's basically an interview process with all the coaches listed where they write the question asked followed by the response from the coach, with most of the questions being the same. There is little strategy discussed in the book which was the only disapointment I had. Other then that, it's fantastic for anyone in the coaching bussiness or in managenement. Some of the coaches don't go into great detail on things or give short answers, but I'd recommend it for an hockey lover.

Good read

You won't learn much about X and O's in this book, but there are several interesting stories from great coaches.

Could have been better but not bad

Great read for ALL coaches out there.. Thanks Mike and Ryan!

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