Daniel Bochner

Daniel Bochner (born September 5, 1984) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and a former player. Since 2018, he has served as the player development coach for the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia and SKA Saint Petersburg hockey club in the KHL.

Daniel Bochner
Born (1984-09-05) September 5, 1984
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
NationalityCanadian
OccupationPlayer development coach (Russian Ice Hockey Federation, SKA Saint Petersburg)
Coaching career
Previous team(s)Russia national hockey team (2018- )
SKA Saint Petersburg (2018- )
Years as a coach2010-2020
Ice hockey career
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 201 lb (91 kg; 14 st 5 lb)
Position Defence
Shot Left
National team  Israel
Playing career 1998–2011

Early life

Bochner was born on September 5, 1984 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1]

Player career

Bochner started playing for the Israel's Under-18 in 1998.[1] In the national junior team he participated in the U18 World Championships of the Europe Division II in 1999 and 2000, as well as the IIHF World U20 Championship Division III in 2001.[1]

From 2000 to 2011, he played for the Israel national ice hockey team (coached by Boris Mindel and Jean Perron).[1][2] Bochner played at several world championships.[3][4][5][6] His last word championship with the team was at the 2011 IIHF World Championship Division III in Cape Town, South Africa, in April 2011.[7] Playing for the Israeli team in IIHF Division II and III tournaments, he won 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.[8]

At the age of 17, he started playing for a number of Canadian junior hockey clubs: Lindsay Muskies (2001–2002),[9] Ajax Axemen (2002-2004),[10] Thornhill Thunderbirds (2004-2005),[11] and Niagara Falls Canucks (2005–2006).[12][13] After completing the season he moved to Europe and started playing for a newly formed HK Beostar adult team.[14] He then moved to Nice hockey Côte d'Azur and was with the club when it became the champion of FFHG Division 2 in 2007-2008.[1]

Coaching career

In 2010, having retired from playing professional hockey in Europe, he established Universal Hockey, an academy where hockey players can improve their skills starting from 6 years.[15][16] He also worked with several ice hockey players as personal coach.[17][18][19] The training program was developed by Bochner himself, based on his experience.[8][20]

In Canada, he worked as a head coach of a number of teams in the Greater Toronto Hockey League and also as a high performance skills coach at Hockey Canada, a national governing body of ice hockey and ice sledge hockey.[21][22] In 2018, he took the role of the director of the player development at the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, where he is responsible for the men’s and women’s Olympic and national teams.[23][24][25] Also since 2018, he is the skills development coach for the SKA Saint Petersburg club and heads the “Red Machine”, a national hockey development program, which trains coaches throughout the country.[23][26][27][28]

References
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  2. Friedman, Roy (April 23, 2006). "הוקי קרח: נבחרת ישראל תנסה להזיז משחק מיום השואה" [Ice hockey: the national team will try to move a game from the day of the Holocaust]. Walla! (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on August 29, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  3. Gaffen, Lionel (April 25, 2006). "National ice hockey team humbled by Germany at worlds". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on August 29, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
  4. Heinrich, Marc (April 24, 2006). "Ein passendes Hors d'oeuvre: Eishockeyteam gewinnt 11:2" [A suitable hors d'oeuvre: ice hockey team wins 11: 2]. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on August 29, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
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  6. "Puchar Kontynentalny: pogrom w pierwszym dniu" [Continental Cup: mayhem on the first day] (in Polish). Polska Hokej Liga. September 25, 2010. Archived from the original on September 28, 2010. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
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  8. Lungen, Paul (March 21, 2012). "Hockey instructor offers personalized service". Canadian Jewish News. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
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  14. "Championnat de Serbie 2006/07" [Serbian championat 2006/2007]. hockeyarchives.info (in French). Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  15. "Young Entrepreneur spotlight: Universal Hocke". Financial Post. November 25, 2010. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  16. Morow, Adrian (October 22, 2012). "Teen hockey players transform from rink rats to gym rats". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  17. Nugent-Bowman, Daniel (March 22, 2016). "Danil Antropov looks to follow in father's footsteps with a career in the National Hockey League". Yahoo! Sports. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 30, 2020. He’ll also continue to work with Don Mills Flyers coach Daniel Bochner, who he feels has helped his skating immensely since his return to Toronto.
  18. Wheeler, Scott (October 28, 2019). "The future of the Wild: Matthew Boldy, Marshall Warren and Jack McBain are on the rise together". The Athletic. Retrieved August 31, 2020. Over the summer, McBain worked with his former minor hockey coach Daniel Bochner — now a development coach with SKA St. Petersburg in the KHL — on his skating and his shot.(subscription required)
  19. Oland, Ian (June 24, 2020). "Tom Wilson hits the ice in Toronto". russianmachineneverbreaks.com. Archived from the original on June 25, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  20. Bakunin, Denis (July 27, 2018). "В СКА появился новый тренер. Кто он?" [New SKA couch, who is he?]. Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (in Russian). Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
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  22. "Top players from across the nation to attend Canada's National Sledge Team development camp". Hockey Canada. August 18, 2016. Archived from the original on September 3, 2016. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
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  24. "Канадский тренер сборных РФ по хоккею назвал себя учеником советского фигуриста Смушкина" [The Canadian coach of the Russian national ice hockey teams calls himself a student of the Soviet figure skater Smushkin] (in Russian). TASS. March 29, 2019. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  25. Lysenkov, Pavel (January 6, 2019). ""Эта бронза – разочарование". Павел Лысенков – об игре сборной России на МЧМ" ["This bronze is a disappointment." Pavel Lysenkov - about the game of the Russian national team at the MFM]. Sovetsky Sport (in Russian). Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 31, 2020.
  26. "В Хабаровске прошла презентация НППХ "Красная машина"" [”Red Machine”, a National programme for the training of ice hockey players "Red machine» was presented in Khabarovsk] (in Russian). Match TV. December 26, 2018. Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  27. Ratnikov, Daniil (July 2, 2019). "Делай как Хабибулин! Легендарный голкипер будет тренировать вратарей СКА" [Do as Khabibulin! The legendary goalkeeper will train the goalkeepers of SKA]. Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (in Russian). Archived from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
  28. Trogens, Karl (April 1, 2020). ""Han sa åt mig att lugna ner mig"" ["He told me to calm down"]. hockeysverige.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on April 2, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020. Lukas Bengtsson was given the chance to train with the Canadian skate coach Daniel Bochner. In total they were about seven to eight weeks of training together.
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