Grassroots: The Minor Hockey Show

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A provocative, in-depth podcast that examines the world of minor hockey, from coaching to program development to the myriad of issues faced by everyone in the game.

  1. JAN 14

    Episode 123 - A Poditorial: The Bronze

    Beginning with a nostalgic opening from the original Ottawa radio podcast, host Richard Bercuson gives his views that help explain Canada's Bronze medal performance at the recent world juniors. He divides his explanation into five topics to describe Canada's standing in the hockey world.   Hockey population by country

    20 min

  2. 12/15/2025

    Episode 122 - The DMIQ

    From IQ to Hockey Sense to Hockey IQ, and now to DMIQ: The Decision-Making Intelligent Quotient. Richard and Dean discuss its importance, when we should introduce it and how to go about it. Naturally, it involves using appropriate spaces in order to enhance children's and teens' decision-making skills. Listeners are encouraged to read this research document related to the topic. It can be found online by copying and pasting the title into a search engine. "How Small-Sided and Conditioned Games Enhance Acquisition of Movement and Decision-Making Skills"

    56 min

  3. 11/15/2025

    Episode 121 - TOP Sports: A different kind of experience - in three sports!

    TOP ("The Other Path") Sports aims to provide families with alternatives to both traditional sport experiences and the private ones, though this, too, is privately owned. Kevin Shier, executive director and co-founder with two other men, discusses what's so different, especially since its approach to hockey, lacrosse and soccer employs what is widely known as the Constraints Based/Led Approach to teaching, something that is mostly non-existent in Canada's minor hockey landscape. Club Technical Director for soccer Tom Waud further describes the approach as it's presented to their paid coaches and why it is foundational to the club's coaching.   TOP Sports: https://www.toronto.topsports.ca/

    1h 15m

  4. 10/30/2025

    Episode 120 - The proliferation of non-sanctioned hockey in Alberta

    Dallas Ansell's recently completed PhD dissertation examined development in the world of non-sanctioned leagues in Alberta which have proliferated in recent years. A lecturer at the University of Alberta and newly minted manager of player development for Hockey Alberta, Ansell discusses what brought him to this subject and what he learned from his research. His dissertation is available on the grassrootsminorhockey.com site under "Docs and articles from the podcasts."

    1h 9m

  5. 10/05/2025

    Episode 119 - Old or New? Appropriate or not? Other?

    HEO coach and coach developer Brian Gillam returns to share what he'd planned to provide coaches in the coaching seminar he and Richard were going to run for a minor organization. The seminar didn't happen, but the content would have been interesting. He explains in detail what he feels coaches needed to know first about the CLA/ED approach. richard@grassrootsminorhockey.com bgillam@rogers.com

    1h 33m

  6. 06/18/2025

    Episode 118 - Quebec Research Conference: John Lind (Sweden) - Applying the research

    This is the final episode from the May 30-June 2 Hockey Research Conference at Laval University in Quebec City as well as the final episode for this season of Grassroots. Please be advised that, because the discussions were held in public spaces, the sound quality and background noise are inconsistent. Also, all five episodes are with individuals whose first language is not English. Here is the link to the conference's proceedings: https://grassrootsminorhockey.com/links/ Thanks for listening. Until next fall... Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com X (Twitter): Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

    34 min

  7. 06/16/2025

    Episode 117 - Quebec Research Conference: Part 4 - Gergely Geczi (Hungary) - Team complexity

    This is the fourth of five episodes of content from the May 30-June 2 Hockey Research Conference at Laval University in Quebec City. Please be advised that, because the discussions were held in public spaces, the sound quality and background noise are inconsistent. Also, all five episodes are with individuals whose first language is not English. Here is the link to the conference's proceedings (Gergely's abstract is on page 32): https://grassrootsminorhockey.com/links/ Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com X (Twitter): Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

    16 min

  8. 06/12/2025

    Episode 116 - Quebec Research Conference: Part 3 - Lukas Chmelir - Testing Puckhandling

    This is the third of five episodes of content from the May 30-June 2 Hockey Research Conference at Laval University in Quebec City. Please be advised that, because the discussions were held in public spaces, the sound quality and background noise are inconsistent. Also, all five episodes are with individuals whose first language is not English. Here is the link to the conference's proceedings: https://grassrootsminorhockey.com/links/ Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com X (Twitter): Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

    29 min
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