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To be clear, I have complete respect for any parent who is willing to step up and invest their time coaching hockey. My concern is that sending them back to their teams after a few hours of classroom instruction is likely to give them the mistaken belief that they're qualified to start teaching their goalies.
Experience is the only teacher. Without enough direct experience, the value of the knowledge attained is limited. In the case where you have no direct experience to build on, you're simply too far away from the source to be of much use. (I'm talking strictly in terms of giving direct instruction)
How many people would attend a class on teaching golf and then go out and start teaching a golf team without at least picking up a club and trying to hit a few balls just to see if they even understood what they were taught? That seems crazy to me, but that's exactly what happens with goalies.
Jukka, rather than double post, I'll just add here that the program that you have in Finland sounds outstanding. My gut feeling is that our club-based system tends to discourage the type of unity that would be required to develop a program like the one you've described. Hopefully I'm wrong about that, but either way, there are many things that we can learn from what you're doing!
-gl
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