{"id":199,"date":"2009-12-28T14:18:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-12-28T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T20:18:32","slug":"what-a-scout-looks-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/what-a-scout-looks-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Scout Looks For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players and parents often ask what a scout looks for when they evaluate players. \u00a0I&#8217;ve gotten to know several scouts through the years, and had the opportunity to ask one up-and-coming scout what he looks for in a player. \u00a0This perspective is courtesty of Pierre-Olivier Rondeau, a scount for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectshockey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selects Hocke<\/a>y and Co-Director of the Kingston International Youth Hockey Festival. \u00a0Pierre is also involved with several organizations and coaching AA hockey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First criteria i<\/strong>s; skating skills: skating acceleration, skating stride, skating agility, mobility skating, backwards skating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second test<\/strong>: Puck handling: Passing game, controls the play, give and receives passes, win faceoff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third test<\/strong>: Hockey Sense: Vision, Playmaker, Anticipation, Plays good position, with relexed puck.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fourth criteria<\/strong>: Scoring \/ shot: Sniper finisher, slap shot, wrist shot, natural goal scorer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fifth criteria<\/strong>: Competitive and agressivity: aggressive, tough and respected, intimidating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sixth criteria<\/strong>: Character \/ Leadership and attitude: Natural leader, a team player, a warrior, a grinder, a maintenance player<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seventh Criteria<\/strong>: Offensive and defensive skills: Backchecking game, forechecking game, power foward, can play the point and power play, can play on penalty kills, good rushing defenseman, cover well his player.<\/p>\n<p>To finish the evaluation of a <strong>goalies<\/strong>: Lateral agility movements, quick up-down, control rebounds well, puck control, recovers quickly when the goes down, plays angles well and good outside the crease, quick gloves years challenge the shooters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey scouts look for specific skill sets and characteristics while evaluating players.  Here are seven criteria one Canadian hockey scout looks for when he&#8217;s evaluating from the stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[109,110,119,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}