Tom Molloy Tom Molloy has been involved in hockey from his youth. He played minor hockey in Calgary, Canada and then played College hockey in the United States. After College he played in the United States Hockey League, before returning to his home town to begin his teaching career. He is certified at the Level 4 and teaches a hockey coaching class at Mount Royal College. Tom is married to Cathy and has four children, three girls, Colleen (75), Annie (79), Melissa (82), and Jim (85). He taught Physical Education and Computers in Calgary and retired in June 2003. Currently Tom is coaching the Mount Royal College Women's Hockey Team and experiencing great success. They are the current league champions. Tom has coached hockey at almost all levels and been the head instructor at hockey schools for many years. He was the a men's head coach at College from 1984-87 and was an assistant coach with the University of Calgary men's team from 1988-96. From 1988, to the present he has been a guest coach for University, High School and professional hockey teams from South Korea where he uses this teaching system with great success. He has also gone to South Korea to work with these teams. Tom and Juhani introduced their program in Austria summer and has been implemented across the country as the national youth program. Tom was the head instructor of the hockey school in Norway, Finland, Mexico, Canada, Korea and the U.S.A. and has done numerous international presentations along with Juhani Wahlsten and Vladimir Jursinov the 98 silver winning and 2002 Russian Olympic coach. He is co-author with Juhani Wahlsten of Finland of a progressive hockey teaching program called "HOCKEY COACHING: The ABC's of International Hockey, books 1 and 2." This coaching method was introduced at the World Hockey Championship Coaching Seminar in Helsinki, May 97. Recently Tom presented at the Coaching Seminar in Halifax before the 2004 Women's World Hockey Championships. His topic was "Using Transition Games to Teach Hockey Skiils and Concepts." Dr. Scott D. Greenapple Dr. Scott D. Greenapple is Director of The Greenapple
Sports, Wellness, And Performance Care Center. He is
a Certified Chiropractic Sports Physician. He is certified
in the Active Release Soft Tissue Management Systems,
and has been both a lecturer and instructor of Active
Release since 1996. He has treated athletes from the
NFL, WNBA, NHL, MLB, and NASCAR. He has also worked
with professional Triathletes, Duathletes, Mountain
Biker, Golfers, and Gold Medal Olympians over the past
16 years. Dennis Freed I love playing hockey, it is in my blood. I grew up in the times when sports were for kids and kids were for sports. It was the time when children invented their sport and modified their own rules. It was a time when kids organized themselves and settled their arguments. Parents were just not around. It was a time when we were kids playing a kids game. To this day I vaguely remember my high school hockey playing days but I remember vividly numerous pickup games I played on my street. We as kids acted out our fantasies from devised world series contests to the proud brawl! s between the Bruins and Rangers, before my hero Park was traded. Equipment too, we did not have a $150 super duper graphite stick but a stick with nails or screws holding it together at the shaft to play another day. Our street hockey ball did not have a liquid center but was a tennis ball deflated with several puncture holes. As for the goaltending position, our world series glove doubled as a goaltending glove and I got several admonishments for ruining pillow cases, which were stuffed with newspapers and wrapped with wads of street protective tape, to stop Gary De’s screaming shot. As for a groin protective cup, it was the Lords P! rayer. Our ice hockey rin k was the 3 day old frozen mash laced with weeds which acted as opponents to the luxury of a 5 day old frozen pond played on until the street lights dimmed the outline of the black master of our childhood life. Youth sports today is a pitiful sterile game. The imaginations, creativity and organizational skills of the children have been wiped out by the rigid rules of adults from the early age of five (5) years old. All kids, geeks to jocks, who were welcomed to play because they were needed to fill out a street game have been replaced by elite teams which excludes those whose body and muscles have not yet learnt to work together, but will in a few more years. A creative “mozzarella play” has been changed to the trap or dump in. Knocking on doors to gather the troops has been relegated to “show up 15 minutes before the game or you miss the first period”. The famous words “do! over” has changed to a whistle backed by a command on how the kid must learn to fix their own mistake. Playing for 5 hours straight, not feeling a bit tired, is replaced by youth off ice training. What the heck are we doing to our children? They are living out our adult lost fantasies. Corporate earnings coupled with adult/coach new found prestige, power and financial incentives has replaced the essence of why a pond hockey pickup game is called “shinny”. And we wonder why our kids prefer to sit at x-box/playstation all day in lieu of a good game of 1 on 1. It is because we, as parents, sterilized and took the fun out of sports. There are no parent! s around the x-box/playstation and maybe that is why they are there! I was a coach who prescribed to this idiot adult method of coaching. I knew something was insanely wrong with it. On a friends advice, I started hockeycoach.com to find the answer. It was a 5 year process, a process which could mix the old with the new. Tom Molloy introduced me to “Let the game teach the game” or Themed Game method of coaching. It is a happy medium between youth sports with no adult intervention to an adult dominated youth sport era. Hockeycoach.com had over 6.7 million hits last year and grows exponentially each year. The main theme is “Let the game teach the game.” I guess there are others which believe the same, the reason for HC’s popularity. I must hand over the reins of the website to another person due to my work requirements. Mike Hartman has pledge to keep this ideal going in hockeycoach.com. Please support Mike as you have supported me. Thank you for the many great years and the numerous people I have met along the way.
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