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Hockey General Manager and Scouting Course
The Hockey General Manager and Scouting course is an 8-week online course that offers cutting-edge theories on how to develop a career in professional or collegiate hockey. The Hockey General Manager and Scouting course will cover issues including hockey operations, team management, scouting talent, player personnel, cutting-edge methods of scouting, NHL traditional scouting techniques, statistical analysis and other essential tools of modern general managers of professional, major junior, and collegiate hockey organizations.
This course is for you if you want to pursue a career in professional hockey as a:
· NHL Player Personnel
· NHL Scout
· NHL Management
· NHL Front Office
· NHL Agent
· NHL Game Operations
· NHL Sports Marketing
· NHL Account manager
· NHL Media & Community Relations
· NHL, NCAA, AHL, ECHL, UHL, CHL, & IHL career advancement opportunities
You do not need to relocate. This course can be taken from anywhere in the world.
This 8-week online course could be the foundation to becoming the next general manager or scout for a team in your area.
Individuals will learn:
· Responsibilities of a Hockey General Manager
· Contracts and player negotiation
· Scouting and player evaluation, including body type, mental makeup, playing ability, physical tools
· How to identify players who will succeed in the NHL
· College scouting & rating college talent, as compared to major junior hockey talent, pertaining to the NHL draft
· Traditional scouting vs. new high tech scouting
· Relationships between the NHL, AHL, ECHL, UHL, CHL, IHL
· Player contracts, player trades and acquisitions
· Franchise, facility and venue operations
· How to run the front office of a hockey franchise
· NHL War Room strategies
· Capology & team contract negotiations
· Landing quality players through free agency and trades
· Negotiations with agents and players
· The making of a hockey scouting report
· The language of hockey scouting
· NHL Draft preparation and free agent signings
· New collective bargaining agreement
· Cap value of a player
The Hockey Scouting and General Management course provided me with a strong foundation towards a career in the professional hockey business. In addition to working with the ISS and the accompanying RINKnet scouting software, I am now able to build a strong network with both current and future hockey professionals. Moreover, success with SMWW greatly improved the appeal of my resume and aided in 'getting my foot in the door' with a professional hockey organization.
— John Borgard
St. Louis Bandits
Course Instructors:
The course instructors, Matt Ebbs, Michael Oke, Dino Caputo, with guests EJ Hrakek and Dr. Lynn Lashbrook:
Sports Management Worldwide has partnered with International Scouting Services to provide students with high-level training on scouting and the business of hockey.
International Scouting Services is an international hockey scouting company that specializes in evaluating, analyzing and ranking hockey players wherever hockey is being played around the globe. ISS uses a combination of traditional scouting methods along with the most advanced technology to arrive at quality and efficient results on these players. ISS creates a number of scouting reports monthly and annually including Draft Previews for the NHL, WHL, OHL, OMJHL and the Canadian Hockey League's import draft. The reports created have been sold to the top hockey clubs and agents all over the world, including every team in the NHL.
ISS has developed its own unique method of evaluating players' strengths and weaknesses and demonstrate their knowledge of the game as well as improve their ability to evaluate players. Player evaluation reports involve some of the following.
- Skating Mobility - Quickness, Foot speed, Agility (Lateral), Strength & Balance, ...
- Hockey Sense - Makes good play, takes good hockey decision, relaxed, good-excellent on face-off, ...
- Puck Control - Receiving a Pass, Making a Pass, Stick handling, Controls the Play - Makes Def. Make1st. Move, ...
- Play Away Offensively - Position, Run Interference, Spectator, ...
- From Puck Defensively - Anticipation, Positional Sound, Transition Game, ...
- Shooting - # of Shots (Backhand, Wrist, Slap), Eye Hand (Make Something out of Nothing), No. of Goals (Accuracy), ...
- Physical Game - Proportion (Upper & Lower Body), Stamina & Cardio (Over Game), Body Checking (Gains Puck), Quiet Checking (Knocks Player off Puck), In Corner/Front of Net (Position - Upper Body), Taking a Hit, Fighting, ...
ISS and SMWW will introduce you to the concepts and new technology being used at the highest level of hockey scouting all over the world. As ISS is looking to grow its number of hockey scouts worldwide, some Hockey GM & Scouting Course graduates will be given the opportunity to work as scouts for ISS!
Matt Ebbs became General Manager of ISS in 2006 after a 14 year career in law and business. As GM, Ebbs is in charge of all aspects of the ISS operation. Under his direction, ISS secured a contract with the QMJHL to provide the Import Draft Guide to all teams in the League. ISS partnered with RinkNet Scouting Software Company to offer teams in the NHL to AHL a variety to scouting products and services. Through partnerships with HockeyIQ.com, Next Testing and Hockey-Conditioning.com, ISS launched a leading edge player development program aimed at helping players from elite to house league achieve the next level. ISS has also partnered with The Fourth Period ("TFP") to offer a comprehensive NHL Draft Guide.
A native of Ottawa, Ebbs has coached at many levels and managed player development programs. Ebbs also played hockey at the University of Ottawa, Queen’s and also played three seasons at St. - Mike's College, University of Toronto. Ebbs obtained his law degree from the University of Ottawa and was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1993. Ebbs also obtained his M.B.A. from Queen's University in 2004.
Michael Oke serves as the Chief Scout for ISS out of the Toronto area.
Oke brings to the table a wealth of hockey experience as a player, scout,
coach, and General Manager. For the past two seasons Oke has worked as the
Director of Player Development and Assistant Coach with the Oshawa Generals
of the Ontario Hockey League. His key responsibilities included analyzing
and evaluating individual performances of players on his own roster, as
well as, evaluating the skills and tendencies of players on opposing teams.
Previously Oke spent four years as Assistant Coach at Wilfred Laurier
University of the Ontario University Athletic Association and four years
as Full-Time Head Coach/General Manager with the Trenton Sting of the
Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. You will enjoy getting to know
Michael and his insightful approach to hockey scouting.
Dino Caputo serves as the Head Scout for the Western Branch of ISS's
scouting department that is in charge of the Western Hockey League. He
is responsible for coordinating the scouting activities of seven of
ISS’s scouts and overseeing of Western Hockey League reports. Caputo
is a current assistant coach and a former college hockey player for
the University of Lethbridge, where he was nominated nationally for
the Dr. Randy Gregg Award for leadership, academics and community
service. In his 5-year junior hockey career, he played for WHL Victoria
Cougars, BCHL Prince George Spruce Kings and captained the Trail Smoke
Eaters. Dino provides students with high quality scouting information
in a no-nonsense way that will enhance your knowledge of the game.
 E.J. Hradek is a senior writer at ESPN and former NHL Hockey Scout for the Dallas Stars. EJ, joined the ESPN staff in 1998. He began covering hockey as a writer/editor for Hockey Illustrated in 1989. The following year, he beat the Stars to Dallas (by three years), taking over as the editor of Beckett Hockey Monthly. When the Stars finally did arrive in Big D, he hosted a weekly hockey radio show and tried (unsuccessfully) to convert ESPN's Skip Bayless to the greatest game on ice.
In 1996, Hradek left Dallas, but not the Stars. Relocating back to the New York area, he became a part-time pro scout for the club, seeing over 100 NHL/AHL games for each of the next two seasons. The scouting gig was a great learning experience, offering a different view of the game.
Hradek grew up in Tuckahoe, N.Y., about 40-minute train ride from New York City. Despite the proximity to the Rangers, Hradek embraced the Islanders when the expansion franchise debuted in 1972. Eight years later, he was part of the sellout crowd at the Nassau Coliseum that witnessed the Islanders' first Stanley Cup championship.
A life-long rink rat (he has the scars to prove it), Hradek captained the club hockey team at Pace University during the early 1980s. In his four years, he played every position on the ice. In fact, as a goalie, he recorded the team's first shutout, turning aside 35 shots en route to a 5-0 win over Rutgers. For the skeptics, Hradek says he can produce a copy of that score sheet! A Journalism major at Pace, Hradek later coached the school's club hockey team, leading them to the playoffs during the 1988-89 season.
 Dr. G. Lynn Lashbrook, President and Founder of Sports Management Worldwide has been working and teaching in Sports Management for over 30 years and has demonstrated a lifelong passion for helping students strategize and reach their career goals in the world of sports. In addition to his varied sports career, Dr. Lashbrook has served at the collegiate level as Athletic Director. During his years as the Athletic Director at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Dr. Lashbrook brought UAF Hockey into the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. During his hockey years at UAF, Lashbrook mentored the rising young hockey coach Don Lucia who is currently the head coach at the University of Minnesota, where he has led the Gophers to the Frozen Four in back-to-back national championships. (Although most people would agree, Don mentored Lynn!)
Dr. Lashbrook is currently President of the SMWW Sports Agency which includes professional hockey players and several certified NHL sports agents. He has worked in the business of hockey at the college level behind the scenes and administratively. You will love his unique perspective, high energy, and great knowledge of the big business of hockey.
Course Details
Weekly Audio Chats- A unique aspect of each 8-week course is the opportunity for students to participate weekly in interactive audio chats with fellow students, Michael Oke, Dino Caputo, and guest speakers EJ Hradek and Dr. Lynn Lashbrook. This is a tremendous opportunity to network within the professional and collegiate hockey industry and get to know your instructors and fellow students personally via the Internet. This is available via any online computer with a microphone.
The ideal course for the following individuals:
· Anyone who loves hockey
· Anyone who's passionate about a career in sports management
· Anyone who wants to learn about the sports industry, while keeping current employment
· Those with other commitments for whom on-line education fits their schedule
· Those who seek a way to break into the competitive world of the business of sports
· College students who want to gain insight not offered on college campuses
· College students who need to obtain college credit
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The Future of Scouting- Learn the latest technology
Several NHL, CHL, and NCAA teams and others are using new software and hardware devices to enhance their scouting process. Scouts can chart shots, assess players on quickness and effort, and record comments without missing a key play. Immediately after the game, the scout's report, including player assessments, are sent via Internet, rather than the traditional method of writing everything down on paper.
This allows hockey organizations to gather information on players 24 hours a day. By eliminating the mounds of paperwork associated with the scouting process, scouting has become more efficient, and data is collected and shared much more easily. SMWW course students will get the opportunity to be exposed to the cutting-edge techniques being used by teams worldwide.
SMWW has forged a partnership with RinkNet Scouting software company to provide its Hockey GM & Scouting students training with the top level of scouting software on the market. RinkNet's scouting software and database system is currently being used by the majority of National Hockey League teams and many Canadian Hockey League teams. It also services teams in Finland, Sweden and Germany. Students in SMWW's course will be required to learn the ins and outs of the software as a part of the course training.
"It's exciting to think that our graduates will be coming out of the course with the ability to use a system that is being used in the NHL every day," says Dr. Lashbrook, President of SMWW. "We think this partnership and training is going to make our graduates more valuable to clubs and allow them to walk right in with solid training that can help the club immediately."
In addition to teaching students how to evaluate talent and actually write a scouting report, students will now learn the next step: recording the information and managing the data. Many people in the world of hockey scouting are able to judge talent, but there is nowhere else in the world that someone wanting to learn to scout can actually be taught the scouting management system being used by the NHL.
Where you could be working in 60 days- a sample of our network:
· Atlanta Thrashers
· Atlanta Thrashers
· Anaheim Ducks
· Boston Bruins
· Calgary Flames
· Buffalo Sabres
· Chicago Blackhawks
· Carolina Hurricanes
· Colorado Avalanche
· Florida Panthers
· Columbus Blue Jackets
· Montreal Canadiens
· Dallas Stars
· New Jersey Devils
· Detroit Red Wings
· New York Islanders
· Edmonton Oilers
· New York Rangers
· Los Angeles Kings
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· Ottawa Senators
· Minnesota Wild
· Philadelphia Flyers
· Nashville Predators
· Pittsburgh Penguins
· Phoenix Coyotes
· Tampa Bay Lightning
· San Jose Sharks
· Toronto Maple Leafs
· St. Louis Blues
· Washington Capitals
· Wisconsin
· Boston College
· Miami (Ohio)
· Vermont
· Cornell
· Colorado Col.
· Minnesota
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St. Lawrence
· Holy Cross
· Michigan
· Lake Superior St.
· Maine
· Mercyhurst
· Colgate
· Sacred Heart
· New Hampshire
· North Dakota
· Providence
· Clarkson
· Ala.-Huntsville
· International hockey teams & leagues
· Minor league hockey teams
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Our goal is to see all Hockey GM & Scouting graduates gainfully employed in hockey. Your chances of accepting an offer of employment within collegiate or professional hockey will improve by going through the program. SMWW will customize a hockey job search strategy specifically tailored to your career goals.
Through our extensive network of professional hockey teams, college hockey departments, and hockey organizations, our objective is to prepare you for when the right job opportunities become available. Numerous people that have gone through our programs are now employed in great positions, and more will do the same. We want to help you launch your hockey career and help you find a position where you can be the most successful and satisfied.
Course Certificate & Resume Reference:
Successful graduates of the Sports Management Worldwide courses will be sent a SMWW Certificate of Accomplishment. This certificate represents not only your achievements in the course but also demonstrates your personal commitment to self-improvement and ability to "self train" yourself for higher positions within the sports business industry.
In addition to your certificate, you will be given the stamp of approval by SMWW. This approval includes a personal reference you may add to your resume with contact information for Dr. Lynn Lashbrook and a reference to the mentors of this course.
Cost: $1,450 ($45 additional for international book shipments). Payment plans available (as little as $$495 a month).
Length: 8 Weeks; "Live" audio online chats weekly with renowned instructors!
Prerequisites: Must be 18 or older to participate and have a passion for sports
Payment: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Diner's Club, or Wells Fargo Loan
CALL TODAY: 1-877-SMWW-NOW
(In the UK: 087 12884799)
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Student Loans Available
To apply for a student loan through Sallie Mae, you must first apply for the course with SMWW.
SMWW is pleased to offer student loans available through SLM Financial, the nation's leading provider of education funding. Check here to read more and get started on your loan today!
Academic Credit
Western Oregon University (WOU), a member of the Oregon University System, offers a separate Credit Overlay Program for Sports Management Worldwide's courses. Students interested in obtaining college credit for Sports Management Worldwide courses must apply for the credit with Western Oregon University directly. For more information, please visit the following webpage:
http://www.sportsmanagementworldwide.com/collegecredit.asp
I was a Pro Goalie for 21 years and had to retire suddenly due to
an injury, without any direction concerning my future career. I was
immediately impressed with the SMWW concept and felt that enrolling
in their educational programs could be greatly beneficial to my
professional future off the ice. SMWW online education is the way of
the future bringing the sports world together.
SMWW chats provide an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas and
relating of experience, and networking with people from all over the globe.
I have just completed the Agent Management Course and will stay with SMWW as an Agent Advisor.
I have also enrolled in the Hockey General Manger Course and am looking forward to the guidance of SMWW and ISS.
I wish I had come across SMWW 10 years ago.
Dr. Lashbrook is a great mentor with impressive knowledge and leadership.
— Jens Casten, JC27 International Goalie Consulting
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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