The NHL Coaches' Association Mentorship Program
The Full 60 with Craig Custance
The Athletic
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Craig welcomes Jeff Blashill head coach of the Detroit Red Wings, Dan Muse, head coach of USA Hockey's National Team Development Program and Lindsay Artkin, the President of the NHL Coaches Association. Jeff, Dan and Lindsay discuss the Coaches Association's mentorship program. The mentorship program, which involves all NHL coaches, helps support the next generation of coaches, with workshops, focusing on minority and female coaching programs and helping all coaches advance in the field of coaching.
Plus Craig and Coach Blashill take a closer look at the promise of the Detroit Red Wings, and look ahead to the NHL's new season.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custin's and presented by The Athletic. |
| 0:10.4 | Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to |
| 0:15.7 | entertain and explain all aspects of the game. |
| 0:19.1 | Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60. |
| 0:22.6 | And we have a unique episode. |
| 0:24.6 | We're going to nerd out a little bit about coaching, which if you listen to this, you know I enjoy doing. |
| 0:30.6 | If you've read the book I wrote behind the bench, you know this is a passionate area of mine. |
| 0:35.6 | And I always like when I can get coaches on and we can get |
| 0:38.6 | into some nuts and bolts of coaching and into what drives them and motivates them. And one of the |
| 0:45.6 | things I've always been fascinated about coaches is how much they help each other, how much they |
| 0:50.9 | are active in the offseason, putting on conferences and seminars to share their secrets, |
| 0:57.5 | which I don't know a ton of professions that are doing it to the level they are. |
| 1:01.7 | And so this episode, we have three guests. |
| 1:04.5 | We're going to start with Lindsay Arkin, who's the president of the NHL Coaches Association. |
| 1:09.9 | And then we're going to go to Dan Mews and then Jeff Blasheill to talk about a lot of things in coaching, |
| 1:18.0 | but primarily that thought about giving back. |
| 1:21.7 | And Lindsay, let me start with you because, you know, as the president of the NHLCA, |
| 1:26.7 | I don't even know if the general hockey fan |
| 1:28.6 | kind of has a great familiarity with the mission of the program, like, or the association. |
| 1:34.9 | Is there a quick way, quick and easy way to describe that? |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:39.8 | And firstly, thanks for having me on. |
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