Grassroots: The Minor Hockey Show
Jun 5, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 10 segments
Swedish coach Peter Bolin has spent much of the last quarter century coaching, teaching and mentoring in his native Sweden as well as stints in "underdeveloped" hockey countries like Romania. Here he…
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Peter BolanGuestRichard BerkessonHostI, I do wanna ask you something about, which I forgot to, to mention when we, when we were talking off the air earlier.
Um, Sweden and Finland got together on a study a few years ago on the size of the ice, and, um-
Uh, on the size of the ice for different age groups and what the impact would be, what the positives are-

In, in the region I'm in, uh, I tried to promote that we should up to U12, uh, work with smaller areas playing.

And, uh, uh, it took a long time, but now the, the, it's, they have d- done it on a trial basis for a couple of years, and now it's, uh, a national wide, uh, concept that up to U12 you play, uh, small area games.
The regular season are, games are, are small space or smaller space, right?
I, I do wanna ask you something about, which I forgot to, to mention when we, when we were talking off the air earlier.
Um, Sweden and Finland got together on a study a few years ago on the size of the ice, and, um-
Uh, on the size of the ice for different age groups and what the impact would be, what the positives are-

In, in the region I'm in, uh, I tried to promote that we should up to U12, uh, work with smaller areas playing.

And, uh, uh, it took a long time, but now the, the, it's, they have d- done it on a trial basis for a couple of years, and now it's, uh, a national wide, uh, concept that up to U12 you play, uh, small area games.
The regular season are, games are, are small space or smaller space, right?
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