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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Andrew Tartar’s The Next Shift is a youth hockey coaching guide about helping volunteer coaches create a team environment where players can learn the game and want to return. Tartar begins with why children come to the rink and how coaches should define success. Trust then becomes the route into his larger argument: players learn best when instruction begins with a relationship that supports correction. After that foundation, he brings the subject onto the ice, where practice design lets players think for themselves and apply what they have been taught. The book then widens to the people around the team, showing the roles parents and assistant coaches play. Tartar carries the philosophy through game days and season planning before closing with tools for coaches to assess what they have created and prepare for what comes next.
Andrew Tartar’s The Next Shift is a fantastic coaching guide, and a useful tool for anyone responsible for young hockey players. The writing is direct and easy to use, and I love that Tartar gives coaches drills once the teaching has been explained. His breakout progression is a perfect example, as coaches show positions first, run the breakout without pressure, add one forechecker, and then perform the drill live. I liked the tryout evaluation exercise, where coaches assess five areas before recording the setting where each player can develop best. It’s clear that years of coaching knowledge have gone into this book, and Tartar ties everything he writes back to what coaches actually do on the ice. Well written and full of usable guidance, youth hockey coaches will adore this.
