What is “The Next Level” looking for? And

What is “The Next Level” looking for?
And
Player Evaluation and Selection
Scott Halpenny
Director of Scouting
Erie Otters OHL Hockey Club
Evaluate the (Reachable) Potential
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ERIE OTTERS
PROSPECT
EVALUATION
FORM
(From RinkNet Scouting
System)
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CREATING AN
EVALUATION CRITERIA
 Create an evaluation criteria that makes it clear to
the evaluators (scouts) what they should observe and
value.
 Ensure that the evaluation criteria are calibrated
with the team’s mission statement, goals, and long
term plan.
 Evaluators need to be aware of the ‘type’ of players
who will be successful within the team’s goals, and
therefore lead to team success.
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
THE FUNDAMENTALS
Base skills. The traits that every coach wants, and every
player needs to possess:
 Skating
 Hockey Sense
 Puck Skills
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"Individual commitment to a group effort -­‐ that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civiliza<on work." -­‐-­‐Vince Lombardi OBJECTIVE: To iden<fy and dra@ players whose aAributes will contribute to both individual and team success within the framework and expecta<on of the coaching staff. AGGRESSIVE Forecheck hard. Send two men hard. Create turnovers. Set an ‘in your face’ tone. Take away <me and space in all three zones. Fast and Physical. TENACITY! REQUIRED SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS Ska<ng Willingness to compete Ini<ates and enjoys contact. Ability to understand angles and cuMng down the ice. Ability to play with pace, keep feet moving Physical. Majority of team that finishes checks, without compromising defensive posi<oning. A team that is willing to defend each other and are willing to be physical for their teammate. Intelligence. Able to finish checks without taking themselves out of the play. Tenacity. Finishes every check. Start to end of shi@. Selflessness. A good teammate. Wants to defend teammates. Speed. Can get to and aAack spaces quickly. High tempo. Roll four lines, who all play with high pace. Ska<ng Discipline. Willing to keep shi@s short, pace high. Keep feet moving Intelligence. Hockey sense allows the coach to use larger bench, more fresh bodies DEFENSIVELY RESPONSIBLE Most important iden<fying factor. Players who stay on the defensive side of the puck. A team of players who do not ‘cheat’. REQUIRED SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS Disciplined. Willing to play within the system. Unselfish. Plays for the team, and not himself. "Offense sells <ckets; Defense wins championships“ Paul ‘Bear’ Bryant. OFFENSIVE Puck possession team. Team that can cycle down low, and create scoring chances off the cycle. REQUIRED SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS Strong on puck. Good puck protec<on skills. Good quickness. Ability to ‘spin out’ and aAack space or a seam. The ability to physically overmatch an opponent to create a scoring chance, vs trying to s<ckhandle by him. COMPETE REQUIRED SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS A required base for a coach to use as a building block to develop the player. A player who fights for posi<on and looks for an edge all over the ice. Create a culture wherein other players feel a responsibility to adapt to. High character. Willingness to compete. Hard to play against. Engages in baAles, takes a piece of his opponent from every baAle. Ability to ‘get it’. Examples: Winger figh<ng for posi<on on a faceoff, or a defenceman baAling to box out, despite there being a remote chance of the puck geMng to the net. Natural leadership quali<es. A player who others naturally follow. Posi<ve leadership. Leadership by ac<on. SIZE REQUIRED SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS All other things being equal, a bigger player can be more effec<ve and in<mida<ng at an ‘in your face’ style of game. Bigger players, with some excep<on are beAer at winning baAles. Effort has to be made to weigh size against speed and tenaciousness. Above average height, or poten<al (gene<cs) for above average height. Signs that the player has room remaining for both growth and development. (body type, physical maturity, coordina<on level) Andrew Shaw Chicago Blackhawks Owen Sound AGack Tenacious, Speed, Compe<tor, In your face, aggressive Adam Pelech Erie OGers BaAle, willingness, defensive play, leadership, size, aggressive Connor Brown Erie OGers Ska<ng, skills, smarts and tenacity. Makes things happen. To create ‘excellence’ within the organiza<on, Coaching, Scou<ng, and Hockey Opera<ons need to ensure that goals and expecta<ons are communicated and aligned. Coaching Hockey Opera<ons Scou<ng EVALUATION CRITERIA
THE VARIABLES
The traits that coaches may place differing importance
on. Players may be able to succeed with a differing
levels of competency in the following. These are also
more difficult to evaluate than the base skills:
 Physical Play
 Defensive Play
 Competitiveness
 Psychological Factors
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
THE NEEDS
The traits that every coach wants, and every player
needs to possess:
 Focus Area (Hard to play against, Dynamic Leadership, Skilled
Dman)
 Defensive Play
 Competitiveness
 Psychological Factors
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EVALUATION TOOLS
(TANGIBLES AND INTANGIBLES)
 On-Ice
 Games
 Practices
 Formulate evaluation drills
 Evaluate skills, team skills, hockey sense, work ethic, compete
 Off-Ice
 Fitness Testing (Fitness, team skills, ability to compete, leadership)
 Interviews (team skills, character, knowledge on others)
 Team Building exercises (team skills, leadership, character, problem
solving)
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• Scout's Honor: The Bravest Way to Build a Winning Team
Author – Bill Shanks
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determine talent, Scout’s Honor shines a bright light on the job done by ‘old-school’ scouts and their killer
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accomplishing. He candidly peels back the curtain, from his first World Series with the Kansas City
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prepare for opponents, evaluate talent, run the draft, and design their offensive and defensive schemes. Patriot
Reign captures Belichick at his most candid, and what emerges is a portrait of a complicated man who is
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• War Room: The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team
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author Michael Holley follows three NFL teams—the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and
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Parcells, Todd and Dick Haley, and Belichick himself. For true fans of the game, and for readers of
Badasses, Patriot Reign, and Boys Will Be Boys, Holley’s War Room is not to be missed.
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RECOMMENDED READING
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
• Author – Michael Lewis
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their
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Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but
also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard).
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