Former NHLer and Wolves coach hasn’t hung up his skates — the 64-year-old is the assistant coach of the Canadian Para Hockey team
Coaches will often suggest they learn as much from their athletes, at times, as their athletes learn from them.
“I told them that I don’t know anything about para hockey, but I would love to try it out,” Foligno recalled of his earliest conversations with Marshall Starkman, the current manager of team operations. The pair had crossed paths at Roger Neilson coaching symposiums over the years. “There are a lot of transferrable parts of the game, but there are definitely some parts that do not fully translate,” he said. “There is no backwards skating; they can do a backwards spinorama, but to actually skate backwards is very difficult – so angling is really important, cross-drops are a very important part of the game – and there’s a timing factor.”
“Some of the more elite players on the national teams are incredible shooters, very accurate,” Foligno added. “And they can put a lot of velocity on that shot.” They all, however, enjoy a common love of hockey – and few family names are more synonymous with the sport than the Foligno clan.
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