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I’ll give you some insights to talentscouting/talentmanagement and sometimes also to my heart & soul. My views are based on more than 20 years experience of NHL-Scouting plus many years Pro-Scouting and consultancy in the Swiss League plus 25 years experience as CHRO. You can follow me on TWITTER @thomasroost and contact me via thomasroost@hotmail.com

Sunday, December 19, 2010

The better scoring stat

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While in Europe it's often believed that the "NA-stats-science" is overrated I'm a true believer in stats. Stats tell some...

Monday, October 25, 2010

B.A. Gustafsson, Josh Holden, Rafael Diaz or Anton Gustafsson?

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In the NHL the lowest salary is just a little more than $ 500’000.— and the highest is around $ 10 Mio. I guess – if we wouldn’t have the sa...

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Assessing talent in a child / Part 2

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I did get a very nice amount of e-mails with insightful comments and also some questions to my blog “Assessing talent in a child”. I really ...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

What is a good coach?

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There are different perspectives in terms of judging a good coach in hockey and in sports in general. The first perspective is a business ...

Sunday, September 19, 2010

How to build a hockey-team?

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This is a very often discussed question and I read a lot about team-chemistry, about players who can play within a certain system and fit to...

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Positive thinking makes me feel sick!

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Summer-time is always the time when GMs and coaches never stop to talk about how much better the team will be in the next season, how moch h...

Saturday, September 11, 2010

NHL-Draft 2010 / Goalies

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To my surprise two goalies were drafted in the first round. While Jack CAMPBELL was not a surprise at all - in my eyes he is a "high-en...

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TalentscoutRoost: NHL-Scout (Central Scouting Europe since 20 years), EHC Biel-Scout since 7 years. Talentscout-Researcher in various subjects. Hockey-Consultant. Former captain of the SUI Floorball-National-Team, Gold- and Silvermedal-Winner in the National-Junior-Violine-Playing-Competition. CHRO and Member of the Executive Board at Hapimag AG, Baar since 1996. Self-confident and full of doubts at the same time, curious and nevertheless rather shy, open-minded but still like being at home... not easy to put into a box... life is not black or white, it's much more complicated and I love it! You can follow me also on Twitter @thomasroost

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