Swedish Junior Hockey
A podcast by a Swede, about Swedish Junior Hockey, for the North American listener.
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Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
Ted Suikhonen grew up in Duluth, MN, USA and won a national high school championship and the following year the Kelly Cup with USHL's Lincoln Stars in their inaugural season. He moved on to the D1 program at University of Alaska – Anchorage and figured the trajectory would follow. After 2.5 years in Alaska, against the advice of his parents, he left to go pro in Europe once the phone did not ring at the pro level in the US. As a young hockey player at a variety of countries such as Netherlands, Italy, Sweden. A second major knee injury finally ended his playing career and moved back to the US to get into coaching at the High School level in Alaska. Ted has since spent the last 18 years in a variety of coaching positions in the US, Norway, Sweden. Prior to this year, Ted worked as Direct or of Player Development for the M20 in the Russian Junior League for HC Lokomotiv and this year moved in a similar position with EVZ Zug in the Swiss League.
In this episode we not only talk about his journey and his experience but also how his player career has shaped and molded him as a coach. How the first few years were mainly about pressing the throttle with practices and games but in later years, after finishing his degree and later getting into the neuroscience of learning has put him on the map as one of the premier skills and player development coaches in Europe.
You can find details and examples of his beliefs, techniques and videos by following him on Twitter @tedsuihkonen77 and on IG @suihkonen.77. Here you can not only find great video content but also the philosophy behind WHAT, HOW and most importantly the WHY specific things are done.
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Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Tommy Salo is someone that needs very little introduction. From growing up in a small torn of Surahammar and his path from playing with older players as a youth hockey athlete and how his success drove his focus at age 15 to go to hockey gymnasium in Vasteras. Tommy spend over a decade as a international team goalie in both juniors and Sweden's Olympic and world cup teams. One of the most iconic goaltenders in Swedish history with an Olympic and World Championship gold medals.
We talk about his rapid rise in the ranks and how he got a call ion a hotel room telephone during vacation in Florida that he was drafted to the Islanders.
We also talk about his views on junior hockey players and specific players such as Filip Forsberg as a GM and how Sweden's system has a proven history of producing top level players in the world.
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Joel Kinnander from Olofstroms IK, 2003 and starting his final year of Swedish Juniors in J20 Elite. In this episode we discuss his journey from being a late starter to a strong finisher, his big frame and how it suits his dream of playing juniors and D1 college in the US or Canada and how his goals drive his strategy for improvements but also how to market himself and get noticed by teams from across the Atlantic.
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Leo Girod speaks about his unique journey from being born in Havana, Cuba and growing up in the French alps in a hockey family of Grenoble. He took the leap of faith to make it as a professional hockey player in Sweden and through a lot of hard work and utilizing his personality and networking skills, built a name for himself the right way one relationship at a time. Leo has since started Gotmyteam.com, a platform for players, coaches, clubs and agents to find and share opportunities to advance. Hope you find the episode enjoyable and inspiring.
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Casper Stockfisch, GM and coach for Vojens IK J17 and J20 hockey club jumped straight into coaching juniors after a promising hockey career was cut short due to injuries. In this episode of Swedish Junior Hockey Podcast we talk about the differences between the Swedish and Danish junior hockey system and some advice he would give himself 10 years ago today.
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Tuesday Aug 16, 2022
Urban Omark grew up in Overtornea 1000 km from Stockholm next to the border to Finland where a small non-hockey town produced three brothers and a cousin to play at the absolute elite level of National and International Hockey. After a long and successful career, Markus Naslund makes the call for Urban to get into coaching the MODO J18. This episode highlights what makes a team great and the challenges even big clubs have to sustain success at the highest level.
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Jack Karlsson, oldest son of Joakim Karlsson (episode 2) talks about his journey from Leksand U16 to hockey gymnasium in Almtuna to powerhouse Farjestads J20 elite and eventually to winning a National Championship with the New Jersey Titans in the North American Hockey League. Jack discusses the ups and down of being passed over at the gymasium level to clawing his way through Covid and eventually finding success in North American Hockey.