Jason Ward - Brampton Canadettes u22AA Head Coach

Well, somehow...

I don't even know how we did.

We landed and we met and, and I worked with your team last year doing their cognitive performance and their, their game strategy, their confidence, their phone time.

And, and, and you saw, you said different changes.

We're going to talk about open borders.

Another thing is the development, but what do you think and how do you think that focusing a little bit more on mental skills training helped them develop?

Yeah, I definitely think, you know, it's one of those things where we have the phone at the start of the dressing room and they put all their phones in once they come to practice and things like that.

And I think it's an important, like when we had our conversation last year.

Yeah,

yeah.

I had knowledge of it, but it wasn't that aware of like how distracting phones can be.

Like, you know it, but you don't really understand it.

And then once you kind of explain that to me and we went through everything and we went through that first meeting.

You really see the light bulb kind of go off.

I know for me, and those are little things that we tried to stress throughout the year.

I found that really helped our team because we were more engaged for practice, which led us to be more engaged for games.

Like I find the games, it's easy to shut off the phones and do your thing, but it's the practices.

It's

really important.

So I think that's the part that we forget is,

yeah,

We can do that because usually I have the girls come an hour before we do a team warmup, everything.

So by the time they get on the ice, they haven't been on their phone for over an hour, which I think is really

hard to make it to before that.

Yes.