MHC has always been a proponent of one set of rules for Hockey. We proposed it back in 1998 in a letter to Mr Bettman and still believe it should be that way. See letter below:
June 16, 1998
Gary Bettman
NHL Commissioner
1251 Avenue of the Americas
47th Floor
New York, NY 10020
Dear Mr. Bettman
I've been meaning to write this letter a long time and decided I'd better get it done during this fourth game of the cup. You've done an excellent job during your tenure as commissioner and I can only see the league getting better. I see the NHL as more of a culture than a league and in many situations change is difficult and takes time.
I have always felt that some of the college rules would lead to more entertainment in the NHL. Eliminate the two-line pass and create more space behind the net. I feel you should use the red line for icing only. These two moves would eliminate hooking and holding that is so prevalent in the NHL. You would be upgrading the talent level in the league because more skill players would be needed to replace the slower players who would find it difficult to compete.
Goaltenders would find it more difficult to leave their net to make plays.
You have been successful getting the minor leagues to experiment, but I feel you should get the junior leagues and the colleges together with one set of rules, then the minor pros and then the NHL. If you would get the International Community to accept, then you will have everyone on one page. The last time I looked, the goal of every young man in the lesser leagues was to play in the NHL so why not bring everyone together. This may seem impossible but I believe that a man with your skills could accomplish this. The NHL is providing assistance to many so you do have bargaining power.
Wishing you continued success in your position as commissioner of the greatest sport in the world.
With respect
Chuck Grillo
President of Minnesota Hockey Camps
http://www.mnhockeycamps.com
CONCUSSIONS
As we look @ various ways people are attempting to curb injuries in the NHL, one glaring situation always comes to mind. We need to have guidelines that can be measured by the officials. This takes away the decision of whether a hit is accidental or with intent to injure.
We took time to go to the rule book to see if a player is limited to the number of steps they can take before it constitutes “charging”. We couldn’t find any and we firmly believe it should be three (3) or less if your thinking is in the best interests of the players. This gives the physical player ample time to deliver an honest check if that is their intent; but more importantly it forces players @ all levels to learn containment versus punishing the opponent beyond repair. When is the last time you saw the signal for charging? If recently, how often did you see it compared to other calls?
There is nothing any more dynamic in the game than an opponent controlling another opponent while separating them fm the puck. This is what we call textbook takeouts; one fundamental of textbook hockey.
As we travel around observing the game @ all levels, one glaring skill that is missing is the fundamentals of containment and use of leverage. Containment is easily learned and is a skill that extends careers. We know too many athletes who fall short in this skill and it’s costing them the opportunity to advance in the game.
Limiting the steps forces the defender to establish position, gain the shoulder (leverage) and separate the puck carrier fm the puck. We have always taught checking this way because it accomplishes a number of things that give you an edge on your opponent.
Eliminates the opponent fm the puck
Establishes position to the point where your body is able to protect the puck and the opponent will have to go around you to get to the puck
Controls the opponents’ mind. There is nothing more frustrating and psychologically damaging than the opponent controlling your body.
Teaches players the value of touch and carry skills in traffic as they attempt to protect the puck
Why take a penalty for a stupid hit, when you can frustrate your opponent, control their mind, to the point where they feel defeated with a simple textbook take out
As we think back to our early years, the number two (2) comes to mind in certain rule books. This number was used so players would have a tougher time generating speed on a hit. It kept hits limited to the genetic impact strength of the person making contact. Two (2) steps and then contact or you are whistled for charging. We don’t pretend to know the number to use in pro, but we do believe there should be a number that enables officials to make split second decisions.
With the new obstruction rules, players are capable of generating high speeds going for pucks and on the fore check. It’s time to limit access to the opponent by instituting some type of measurement like number of steps; @ least using it as a guideline. If players skate a long distance, coast, and then take two steps, the coasting phase counts as steps. They simply came too far and that can lead to injuries.
Players generating speed and traveling multiple steps to hit someone are the cause of too many injuries in the game. Injuries aside, this type of situation also incites the opponent to the level of games getting out of control because it looks so deliberate. The players feel the need to police it and thus the reason for games getting out of hand.
We’ve studied these situations for years. Limiting steps would be very easy for referees to make a decision. It is really a no decision because you simply broke the rules. Containment and takeouts become an art equal to skating, passing, receiving and shooting that we’ve had an appreciation for our entire career. We worked on it daily and our goal each game day was 100% take outs.
STATUES
This is our second (2nd) writing requesting the NHL place statues of all their Hall of Famers in front of the appropriate rinks. One, in front of their pro rink if it’s still standing; two, in front of their development rink if it’s still standing; three, in front of an appropriate rink in the vicinity. Statues have a significant value in preserving the game as well as developing more followers of the game.
One need only go to Pittsburgh and count the number of pictures taken daily of all the statues in the various sports. We’ve seen it in person in Pittsburgh and @ the Excel Energy Center with the statue of Herb Brooks. This is a small price to pay for preserving legacies and growing the great sport we’ve been a part of our entire life. Get the statues built and erected and you will see this great game grow to another level.
ADVERTISING
No sport can claim the level of humor and character that we have in hockey. Whether on the bus, plane, in a locker room, on the practice sheet or during a game, the stories from the past and in to the present are precious and too good to keep away fm the public. Ads should be rated by their level of humor or their serious message to youth.
HBO did an excellent job of selling the sport to the public on New Year’s Day. This is one more way of making sure people find out that our players and employees are great people with an unbelievable sense of humor that can brighten anyone’s life just by making them public. Humor sells the game, people with humor sell the game and the game with its humorous side will open the public’s eyes as to how real this sport is to life.
Copyright by Chuck Grillo, Minnesota Hockey Camps, 24621 So Clark Lake, Rd P.O. Box 90, Nisswa, MN 56468-0090 Phone 218.963.2444 Fax 218.963.2325
Email: chuck@mnhockeycamps.com - All rights are reserved. No part of this book, blog OR template may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means without permission in writing from Minnesota Hockey Camps
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Climbers Who Care
Climbers who Care
Separating yourself fm the pack
Every person on this earth has a right to advance in life. While it’s your right to keep climbing, it’s also your responsibility to care about others in the process. How you climb is the issue. You have every right to separate yourself fm the group and MHC is the first to want you to do just that. Each year, usually around the end of February, players who improve start to separate themselves fm the group. This should be your goal. There is a way to involve the team in the process and it has to do with sharing.
Climbers who Care fit in the locker room and board room. They are detail people who care about their teammates and co-workers before any personal gains. Climbers who Care fit nicely in to companies. They are authentic, do everything with purpose, for a reason, and their self-esteem rises to unimaginable levels. Keep Climbing, Keep Sharing, and Keep Caring before Carrying and Climbing.
Climbers who Care are not something new to the scene. Its part of your upbringing that needs to be revisited with frequency in team sports to stifle greed and ensure success in a team setting whether on ice or off.
There is such a thing as good greed in a game and we believe there is not enough good greed. Good greed is an average of three (3) shots per game by defensemen who can shoot (finesse defensemen). If a defenseman has a great shot, teammates have to set them up and encourage shooting; especially if they like assists and winning.
We have no statistic on forwards but a low percentage of completion on shots means the wrong person is shooting or shooting too much. When you get that opportunity in front, have the mentality to bury your chances with zero inhibitions. Don’t look surprised it’s happening in front of you.
People who care find it tough to focus on the task @ hand when people they care about suffer. When part of your head and heart are with the other person, it’s tough to focus on your vested interests; tasks @ hand. This takes an adjustment on the part of the Caregiver. This means you need an awareness of how it works and then you adjust.
Tell me a fact; I will learn. Tell me the truth; I will believe. Tell me stories related to truthful experiences; I will treasure them the rest of my life. This is the foundation for the trust that helps develop players and build teams.
Players need to put the words smart or smartly before or after technical and tactical levels of the game. Well rounded players shoot smartly when they should shoot, pass smartly when they should pass, carry smartly only out of necessity and move pucks smartly to get them back by smartly going to an open area. This will give you a higher completion rate in your passes because you will be unconditionally moving the puck to an opening the split second that opportunity is there. Bad passes are a direct result of failure to trust your instincts; most often a split second too late.
This also includes smart anticipation, smartly competing, smart take-outs, smart hits, smart checking forward or back and there is much more as you go through each skill.
Talented players, coming thru the ranks, are used to carrying before sharing because it was easy and they may have been one of a few go to guys or the go to guy. It gets harder moving up because critical moments are what they are; split second moments that close up fast. All of a sudden the strength that made you a great prospect in your early years becomes a liability that stifles growth as a pro.
“Execution in critical moments is a skill and true measurement of player performance.”
Great mentors embolden players to have the boldness and courage to make plays in grey areas that make most coaches cringe. We believe players given a license to make plays in the grey areas will improve more than peers who are forced to chip pucks out and get it deep. Once acquired, these plays become part of the player’s arsenal and the conversion percentages continue to go up.
“Grease wheels, versus reinventing, set guidelines and let instincts take over.”
We judge people and players by their deeds. Appearance, color, ethnic background, or status is not an issue. People are authentic when what you see is what you get.
Being a pro is like being in some weird bubble or fantasy land. There are both real and bogus experiences, so beware of the “false blessing of success”. There have been too many examples out there of too egotistical, too unethical, too uncaring and narcissist behavior types. It happens every season. Learn fm it and bring yourself to the level of authenticity, purpose, reality, reason, substance and self-esteem you will need to succeed.
Society’s ills are prevalent everywhere we look. Corporate climbers are in abundance these days. Sort them out, expose the problem, create awareness, correct it, or move on to what is right. Make a special place for Corporate Climbers who Care.
Corporate settings are a breeding ground for perception, deception and greed. There are agenda driven people who are “politically correct” with “corporate bedside manners” who “articulate” well with “sound bites” that make people giddy. Smart owners sort through this behavior prior to promoting.
Solid companies are built on authenticity, purpose, reality, reason and substance. Teams are part of a company, have similar issues in the locker room and on ice, but are built the same way. The players are “real people” in that locker room.
The difference is deception, false information, hand drops, fakes and good greed done in concert when passing, carrying and shooting on ice is acceptable in a team setting because it enables you to complete plays. It is fun to be deceiving when it’s recognized as a skill and leads to success.
Keep Climbing with Authenticity
Keep Caring with Purpose
Keep Giving; it’s Reality
Keep Sharing with Reason
Raise your Self-Esteem to unimaginable levels
The rest will fall nicely in to place; with Substance being your common denominator. Your career will go in the right direction.
The revered words are:
“We love your son/daughter because he/she is a detail person who cares about his/her teammates, and others, before any personal gains. This is living life, playing and working with purpose.”
Copyright by Chuck Grillo, Minnesota Hockey Camps, 24621 So Clark Lake, Rd P.O. Box 90, Nisswa, MN 56468-0090 Phone 218.963.2444 Fax 218.963.2325
Email: chuck@mnhockeycamps.com - All rights are reserved. No part of this book, blog OR template may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means without permission in writing from Minnesota Hockey Camps
Separating yourself fm the pack
Every person on this earth has a right to advance in life. While it’s your right to keep climbing, it’s also your responsibility to care about others in the process. How you climb is the issue. You have every right to separate yourself fm the group and MHC is the first to want you to do just that. Each year, usually around the end of February, players who improve start to separate themselves fm the group. This should be your goal. There is a way to involve the team in the process and it has to do with sharing.
Climbers who Care fit in the locker room and board room. They are detail people who care about their teammates and co-workers before any personal gains. Climbers who Care fit nicely in to companies. They are authentic, do everything with purpose, for a reason, and their self-esteem rises to unimaginable levels. Keep Climbing, Keep Sharing, and Keep Caring before Carrying and Climbing.
Climbers who Care are not something new to the scene. Its part of your upbringing that needs to be revisited with frequency in team sports to stifle greed and ensure success in a team setting whether on ice or off.
There is such a thing as good greed in a game and we believe there is not enough good greed. Good greed is an average of three (3) shots per game by defensemen who can shoot (finesse defensemen). If a defenseman has a great shot, teammates have to set them up and encourage shooting; especially if they like assists and winning.
We have no statistic on forwards but a low percentage of completion on shots means the wrong person is shooting or shooting too much. When you get that opportunity in front, have the mentality to bury your chances with zero inhibitions. Don’t look surprised it’s happening in front of you.
People who care find it tough to focus on the task @ hand when people they care about suffer. When part of your head and heart are with the other person, it’s tough to focus on your vested interests; tasks @ hand. This takes an adjustment on the part of the Caregiver. This means you need an awareness of how it works and then you adjust.
Tell me a fact; I will learn. Tell me the truth; I will believe. Tell me stories related to truthful experiences; I will treasure them the rest of my life. This is the foundation for the trust that helps develop players and build teams.
Players need to put the words smart or smartly before or after technical and tactical levels of the game. Well rounded players shoot smartly when they should shoot, pass smartly when they should pass, carry smartly only out of necessity and move pucks smartly to get them back by smartly going to an open area. This will give you a higher completion rate in your passes because you will be unconditionally moving the puck to an opening the split second that opportunity is there. Bad passes are a direct result of failure to trust your instincts; most often a split second too late.
This also includes smart anticipation, smartly competing, smart take-outs, smart hits, smart checking forward or back and there is much more as you go through each skill.
Talented players, coming thru the ranks, are used to carrying before sharing because it was easy and they may have been one of a few go to guys or the go to guy. It gets harder moving up because critical moments are what they are; split second moments that close up fast. All of a sudden the strength that made you a great prospect in your early years becomes a liability that stifles growth as a pro.
“Execution in critical moments is a skill and true measurement of player performance.”
Great mentors embolden players to have the boldness and courage to make plays in grey areas that make most coaches cringe. We believe players given a license to make plays in the grey areas will improve more than peers who are forced to chip pucks out and get it deep. Once acquired, these plays become part of the player’s arsenal and the conversion percentages continue to go up.
“Grease wheels, versus reinventing, set guidelines and let instincts take over.”
We judge people and players by their deeds. Appearance, color, ethnic background, or status is not an issue. People are authentic when what you see is what you get.
Being a pro is like being in some weird bubble or fantasy land. There are both real and bogus experiences, so beware of the “false blessing of success”. There have been too many examples out there of too egotistical, too unethical, too uncaring and narcissist behavior types. It happens every season. Learn fm it and bring yourself to the level of authenticity, purpose, reality, reason, substance and self-esteem you will need to succeed.
Society’s ills are prevalent everywhere we look. Corporate climbers are in abundance these days. Sort them out, expose the problem, create awareness, correct it, or move on to what is right. Make a special place for Corporate Climbers who Care.
Corporate settings are a breeding ground for perception, deception and greed. There are agenda driven people who are “politically correct” with “corporate bedside manners” who “articulate” well with “sound bites” that make people giddy. Smart owners sort through this behavior prior to promoting.
Solid companies are built on authenticity, purpose, reality, reason and substance. Teams are part of a company, have similar issues in the locker room and on ice, but are built the same way. The players are “real people” in that locker room.
The difference is deception, false information, hand drops, fakes and good greed done in concert when passing, carrying and shooting on ice is acceptable in a team setting because it enables you to complete plays. It is fun to be deceiving when it’s recognized as a skill and leads to success.
Keep Climbing with Authenticity
Keep Caring with Purpose
Keep Giving; it’s Reality
Keep Sharing with Reason
Raise your Self-Esteem to unimaginable levels
The rest will fall nicely in to place; with Substance being your common denominator. Your career will go in the right direction.
The revered words are:
“We love your son/daughter because he/she is a detail person who cares about his/her teammates, and others, before any personal gains. This is living life, playing and working with purpose.”
Copyright by Chuck Grillo, Minnesota Hockey Camps, 24621 So Clark Lake, Rd P.O. Box 90, Nisswa, MN 56468-0090 Phone 218.963.2444 Fax 218.963.2325
Email: chuck@mnhockeycamps.com - All rights are reserved. No part of this book, blog OR template may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means without permission in writing from Minnesota Hockey Camps
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