Summary of Qualifications
- Head Instructor, Level 5 USA Hockey Coach
- Over 15 years of experience coaching players of all ages and skill levels (5 years old through professional players)
- Began playing professionally at the age of twenty
- Played professionally for four years
- Played for various minor league teams throughout Quebec (LNAH) and the United States (SPHL)
Playing Career
- Original Druzhba-78 Captain
- A Ukrainian hockey team that toured through North America in 1995
- Known for producing top rated prospects with world-class skills and considered by many to be the best “Minor” hockey team of all time
- Quote from the Baltimore Sun: “They play like the Red Army team that dominated international hockey for two decades.
They use a quick-passing, attacking-from-transition style taken right out of any respected European hockey manual”…
- Little Caesars Midget Minor – Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Les Frontaliers de Coaticook Junior League – Quebec, Canada
- Granby Blitz Semi-Pro – Quebec, Canada
- Played for various minor league teams in the Unites States (SPHL)
Coaching Career:
- Skills coach for Bell Tire and Little Caesars
- Coaching many High School Hockey organizations (both male and female teams) in metro-Detroit
- Currently coaching Birmingham Rangers 2009 team, 2011 Little Caesars Lead instructor
- Running skills practices for multiple Detroit based hockey teams
- Lead Skills Instructor for Player’s Edge Hockey School
- Worked with Viktor Fedorov, Petr Klima and many other professional top rated coaches
- Founder of former E2 Hockey Training, LLC
Focus Areas Taught
- Extensive Power Skating “Every Aspect Of Skating Covered”
- High Speed Puck Control For All Areas Of Ice
- Proper Gap Control And Positioning
- Quick Release Shooting
- Making Moves With Enough Space and Speed To Be Effective
- How To Correctly Take And Give Body Checks
- Small Area Games
- Offensive Creativity
- Defensive Strategies
- On And Off-Ice Conditioning
