Bar Down: Highly Competitive Youth Hockey - And What Can Lie Just Beyond

Bar Down: Highly Competitive Youth Hockey and What Can Lie Just Beyond explains hockey basics as well as deeper insights on various issues, challenges, and decisions that are often encountered as a driven player progresses. Perfect for players and parents 6U though 18U, Bar Down showcases the valuable advice and wisdom of experienced parents, coaches, and other hockey experts. Topics include:

- Youth hockey lingo and basics-terms, gear, tryouts, training, parents, coaches, travel

- Do head coaches want direct contact with parents?

- Does player attitude and off-ice behavior really get noticed?

- Do team coaches typically provide direct feedback on a player's performance?

- Is roster selection ever based on anything other than skill, performance, ability, or potential?

- Is puberty really a factor?

- Coaches on parent and player behavior-dos and don'ts

- Want to get scouted?

- Should you work with a player's advisor or agent?

- Coaches from a prep school, Juniors teams, and a D1 college-what they value in hockey prospects

- How one online "NHL Prospects Scout" sizes up teen prospects.

Author: Doug Heller
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Published: 02/24/2025
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 10.00h x 8.00w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781662945700

About the Author
Heller, Doug: -

Doug is the father of a 2010 St. Louis AAA Blues (Bantam Major, 2024-2025 season) youth hockey player son and a twenty-year-old college junior daughter. His daughter, who is pursuing a degree in sports business and is actively involved with sports photography/videography, was a competitive figure skater when younger and captained her high school varsity golf team to competing at the state championship level. Doug, thus, has at least some familiarity with competitive youth sports. But, as with most parents of youth athletes, he primarily has expertise in getting gear together and carting young players around from one place to another.

Doug grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, graduated from Brown University, and has an MBA from UCLA Business School. He co-captained his middle school, varsity high school and varsity college water polo teams. He has also served as an official interpreter (French and Mandarin) at a summer Olympics games.