Simply the Best: Insights and Strategies from Great Hockey Coaches

Book Description
Simply the Best delivers rare insights on success straight from the hearts and minds of Stanley Cup winning coaches Scotty Bowman, Mark Crawford, Jacques Demers, Ken Hitchcock, and Mike Keenan. The book also features NHL and Olympic coaches Clare Drake, Dave King, George Kingston, Andy Murray, Roger Neilson, Pat Quinn, and Brian Sutter. Recognized as the greatest coaches in the game, these "elite 12" openly discuss in their own words strategies that have made them successful. Coaching wisdom, as never before published, flows from the pages of this remarkable book. Everyone is a coach—no matter if it’s raising children, coaching a youth sports team, being the project team leader at work, teaching students in a classroom, or managing employees in a corporation. Great coaches have to be able to provide direction and vision, stay on a firm path while also recognizing when change is needed, motivate, maximize the potential of their people, and deal with adversity. As seen here, the coaches’ techniques, strategies, and personalities are varied, but deep down they all have that special something that allows them to be champions while others struggle to attain a similar pinnacle. These world-renowned hockey visionaries take readers into the players’ dressing room and onto the ice and explain what it takes to be a champion at hockey. But, as readers will see, these mastered principles of coaching success are also relevant "off-ice" so that people in all walks of life, from managers to moms, can win their own Stanley Cups. The 12 coaches in Simply the Best have spent a lifetime in the pursuit of understanding how to win. Now so will you!

About the Author
Mike Johnston is a past coach of Canada’s National Men’s Team, assistant coach of the 1988 Winter Olympics team and, for the past five seasons, assistant coach of the Vancouver Canucks. He is highly respected for his work with younger players and as a special team strategist. Ryan Walter was the youngest-ever captain in the NHL; a highlight of his 15-year career was winning the Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens in 1986. He played his 1000th game as a member of the Vancouver Canucks and is now a respected broadcaster, motivational speaker and hockey educator.


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