Glenn Carnegie - Skill Coach

[Mathletic]

Hey, Canadiens fan coming in peace

I was looking through the Canucks front office and came across Glenn Carnegie, who's a skill coach. Just wondering if any of you knows what he does, who he mainly works with and so on. Thanks in advance.

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[God]

I bet he was hired after that "Canucks lack skills" article.

 

[Wetcoaster]

Glenn Carnegie was with Focus Fitness serving as the strength and conditioning coach for Manitoba Moose. Towards the end of last season, he received a call to work with Canucks as they approached the playoffs. The Canucks liked his work and signed him to a contract for this season.

Here is his bio from Focus Fitness:

Glenn Carnegie - BESS, CSCS, CFC
Glenn has a bachelor degree in Exercise and Sport Science from the University of Manitoba. He is a certified Fitness Consultant, as well as a certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the National Strength and Conditioning Association. When you combine his educational background with a professional hockey career in Germany, and over 8 years coaching and training hockey players of all levels including the NHL you get someone who knows what it takes to succeed in sport. Glenn has worked as the strength and conditioning coach of the Manitoba Moose for 4 years, and is now the assistant strength coach and on ice skills development coach for the Vancouver Canucks. When he isn’t on the ice or in the gym, Glenn lives what he preaches, living an extremely active life: surfing, snowboarding, horse back riding, hiking and doing whatever it takes to live life to it’s fullest. Glenn’s goal is to help each athlete achieve their true potential and for those not aspiring to be a great athlete Glenn’s passion is to give you the energy, fitness level and functional strength to get out there and live a life full of activity, no matter what your age.

http://www.focusfitness.ca/trainers.html

 

[VanEric]

"Dynamic Goaltending congratulates Glenn Carnegie, of Focus Fitness, on his promotion to the NHL's Vancouver Canucks. Carnegie was serving as the strength and conditioning coach for Manitoba Moose. Towards the end of last season, he received a call to work with Canucks as they approached the playoffs. Carnegie impressed the coaching staff enough that they have signed him to a new contract for the upcoming season. Glenn's knowledge, intensity, and passion for the game will make him an immediate contributor to the organization; we wish him the best of luck!"

 

[thecoolstuff]

so the Nucks basically have 2 S&C coaches: Takahashi AND Carnegie?

 

[LickTheEnvelope]

so the Nucks basically have 2 S&C coaches: Takahashi AND Carnegie?

A few actually.

Takahashi is the general strength and conditioning coach and also developes the meal plans and workout routines.

Carnegie specializes in drills and routines for players to improve skills... like shooting, stick-handeling etc.

There's others like Gagne who is director of player development and works with prospects, Rollie Melanson for goalies etc.

 

[JAK]

with 23-24 guys around the team at all times. It doesn't surprise me that we hire more guys.

Gillis has said that he's got the green light to spend what ever it takes to help the team win a cup.

There's no salary cap on support staff.

 

[NFITO]

Hey, Canadiens fan coming in peace

I was looking through the Canucks front office and came across Glenn Carnegie, who's a skill coach. Just wondering if any of you knows what he does, who he mainly works with and so on. Thanks in advance.

Carnegie works with all the players, and was working with many of the prospects during camp as well.

http://www.leaderpost.com/sports/Glass+finally+breaking/3914864/story.html#ixzz16wRUc4aH

The Canucks employ a skills coach (Glenn Carnegie) who works daily with the players, honing individual techniques that are often neglected in a system-driven league. On occasion, Carnegie runs practices that are strictly skill-oriented.

The Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks are among a handful of NHL teams that employ a skills coach. Those teams finished second and third, respectively, in offence last season.

"It's something that is getting more popular -- it's the next step in where the game is going," said Carnegie. "This gives guys the opportunity to handle the puck in different areas. It's different for different players. Obviously, some guys have more skill than others, but they all have individual things they want to work on and this is their opportunity."

 

[vanuck]

Strange how more teams don't employ a skills coach. You'd think they would want to improve on their offensive skills - can never have enough of it.

 

[Wetcoaster]

Strange how more teams don't employ a skills coach. You'd think they would want to improve on their offensive skills - can never have enough of it.

Old time hockey "truism" -

Ya can't teach offence.

 

[Ziostilon]

what sort of resume does Carnegie have that he can train NHL level players on hockey skills

was listening to the Blackhawks broadcast the other time. And they were talking about Marcus Kruger's improved faceoff percentages because Yanic Perreault had been working with him

 

[Wetcoaster]

what sort of resume does Carnegie have that he can train NHL level players on hockey skills

was listening to the Blackhawks broadcast the other time. And they were talking about Marcus Kruger's improved faceoff percentages because Yanic Perreault had been working with him

Look above at post #4.