Manny Malhotra: Don't Be That Parent, Coaching Your Own Kid & We're Just Buying Memories
Better Sports Parents by Scott Rintoul
Episode notes
Manny Malhotra is the Head Coach of the Vancouver Canucks and a central piece in a family that has an incredible amount of perspective and opinion on youth sports. Drafted seventh overall in 1998, Manny played nearly 1,000 NHL games across seven organizations, and built a reputation as one of the league's most respected leaders. His coaching career has seen him move from an NHL assistant to a Calder Cup winner as head coach of the AHL's Abbotsford Canucks to the bench boss of the NHL franchise he helped lead to the 2011 Stanley Cup Final as a player. He's also a father of four, including son Caleb, who was drafted by the Canucks this past summer, putting Manny on the verge of coaching his own son in the NHL.
Manny and Scott dig into the youth sports household that shaped him, and how that same philosophy now guides how he and his wife Joann ...