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Kresta in the Afternoon – November 24, 2023 – Hour 2

John U Bacon tells how he began coaching America’s worst hockey team and turned them into winners. 

 

 

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I Coached America’s Worst Hockey Team – and Made them Winners

When John U Bacon played hockey for the Ann Arbor Huron High School River Rats, he never scored a goal. But years later he was asked to coach the team – which at that point hadn’t won a single game in over a year. They were proud to be called the worst team in America – and John turn them into winners. He tells us how.

John U Bacon is the author of several books, most recently Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America’s Worst High School Hockey Team. He’s joined us in the past to discuss The Great Halifax Explosion and Playing Hurt: My Journey from Despair to Hope, which he co-wrote with the late John Saunders. You can follow him on Twitter @johnubacon.
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