The Complete Player: The Psychology of Winning Hockey

by Saul L. Miller

In The Complete Player, renowned sport psychologist Saul Miller examines the basic psychological skills necessary to play winning hockey. He describes the mental training techniques he has successfully employed with a wide range of professional hockey players, including such greats as Mark Messier, Curtis Joseph, Steve Yzerman, Dominik Hasek, and Brett Hull, and offers tips on a wide variety of subjects, such as how to play better defence, how to deal with personality conflicts on and off the ice, and how to build a player's confidence. He also offfers budding players advice on what it takes to make it in the big league, and what scouts look for when they are recruiting. Coaches, players, and fans alike will enjoy Miller's answers to such questions as, Why do some players score lots of goals, yet others with apparently equal sills rarely score at all? How is it that some players are easily distracted by the pressure and violence of the game, while others are able to stay focused? How do players get "up" for the game, shift after shift, night after night? And, most of all, how can I improve my game?

About the Dr. Saul L. Miller is a leading performance psychologist who works with athletes, teams, and corporations. His clients have increased their sales volume, improved management "coaching" effectiveness, set world records, and won gold medals and championships. He has worked with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Dallas Stars, and the Vancouver Canucks, among others.

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2001

Reviews

[Dondi Ligon · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you immerse yourself into this book, and into a hockey player's mind, you may develop an agile mind that is designed to adapt to quick changing circumstances for yourself.