Ångermanland has at the last five years lost 420 hockey players. This is a qualitative study that focus on investigating the main problems of dropouts among young hockey players and how ice hockey associations in Ångermanland act to find solutions to the problem. The main questions of the study are: How can the dropout problems in Ångermanland be understood or explained in terms of youth operators' perspective and what are the potential strategies that the ice hockey associations are using to deal with the dropout problem and what approaches to youth hockey is reflected in the youth operators' statements? The study was based on semi-structure interviews with 6 different ice hockey sports clubs in Ångermanland. The results showed that the leadership programs ought to be more educational, and more oriented toward understanding the children instead of mainly technical learning objectives about how to shoot, dribble, and skate. The main reason that hockey players quit playing

Authors: Michelle Karlsson and Johanna Rydberg Titel: How organizational culture can look like in sport organizations – A qualitative study about how Karlskrona Hockey Club’s administrative personnel’s potential culture. This study is written because of the reason that today’s sport organizations have become more like traditional and profitable businesses, which makes the administrative personnel work more important for the organizations. Earlier studies have been made, but the focus is on the players or the members in the organization and also on their development. We want to concentrate this essay on the administrative personnel’s potential culture and their contribution to the organization. Our research questions are 1) How does the administrative personnel’s work look like in a sport organization from a cultural perspective?, and 2) If, and which, culture pursues sport organizations and the administrative personnel? To answer these questions we have used theories from Edgar H. Schein and Mats Alvesson, who are leading cultural scholars. We turned to Karlskronas Hockey Club as a case study where we made six individual interviews and general observations that became our empirical basis. The chosen theories and the collected empirical data were later interconnected and used for further analysis. The main conclusion of our analysis, based on the theories, is that sport organizations culture are dependent on what context and state the organization is in. In our case study Karlskrona’s Hockey Club is a relatively new organization with a lot of new employed people who influence the culture. The theories, taken from Alvesson and Schein, explain the effects when new people get employed. The culture that exists among the administrative personnel is therefore under consistent development and has a hard time finding stability. Nowadays sport organizations need to focus on the budget and economy to survive, but profit isn’t the main purpose. People working in sport organizations are driven by commitment and interest for the sport and members in the organization.

The purpose of this study is to examine the symbolic use in sports and thus discuss the limits of what can be seen as religion and what can be said to be sacred and profane in our time. Data were collected through participant observation during and in connection with the ice hockey games in Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad. Collected data is then analyzed based on Émile Durkheim's theory of the elementary forms of religion. The results indicate that the club badge and club colours of Färjestad BK can be interpreted as totems both before, during and after a ice hockey game. The symbols appear in a number of different contexts, and in some more exposed than others. They share largely the function of the totems in the Australian and North American tribes that Durkheim studied because it bind together and create identification between the fans of Färjestad. Färjestad's symbols are those that to some extent create and maintain sacred and profane, maintain the group and at the same time separates it from others. / Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka symbolanvändning inom sport och därigenom diskutera gränserna för vad som kan ses som religion och vad som kan sägas vara heligt och profant i samtiden. Data har samlats in via deltagande observationer under och i anslutning till ishockeymatcher i Löfbergs Arena i Karlstad. Insamlad data har sedan analyserats utifrån Émile Durkheims teori om religionens elementära former. Studiens resultat pekar på att Färjestad BK:s klubbmärke och klubbfärger kan tolkas som totems både inför, under och efter en ishockeymatch. Symbolerna uppträder i en rad skilda sammanhang och är i vissa mer exponerade än i andra. De delar till stor del funktion med de totems Durkheim studerade hos australiensiska och nordamerikanska stammar, i den meningen att de binder ihop och skapar identifikation Färjestadfansen emellan. Färjestads symboler är de vilka i viss utsträckning skapar och upprätthåller heligt och profant, upprätthåller gruppen och samtidigt avgränsar den från andra.

Title: Comparison of the ice hockey players working relationship in Czech Republic and abroad Goals: Comparison of duties and rights of individual work-legal relations for ice hockey players in the first two best national competitions in different European countries. Method: For the treatment of this topic has been used secondary data analysis and desk research in economics, management, and professional sports. For qualitative research sample of hockey players and managers interview method was used. Results: They simulate application of individual abroad work-legal relations into the Czech conditions, even commentaries and comparison to nowadays conditions. They suggest more favorable conditions for the national competition. Key words: professional sport, ice - hockey, professional ice - hockey player, non- amateur ice - hockey player, self - employed - definition, right and duties, players contract, dependent activity - rights and duties, work contract, ice - hockey league.

Title of work: Modern training equipmens for ice hockey Goal of work: Using standardized interviews to determine the frequency of use of modern hockey equipment abroad, then through a questionnaire survey, the frequency and the current status of the use of modern hockey equipment for ice hockey players aged 12-13 years in the Czech Republic. According to the findings recommend examples of training exercises that are suitable for the development of skills for players to prepare for the ice and off the ice. Method: Observation, indirect observation, document analysis, questionnaire survey, data analysis, standardized interview. Results: The results of the thesis we have shown that the frequency and condition using modern training aids for ice hockey in the Czech Republic compared to other countries at a low level. Some tools are used by us all. 40% of those surveyed teams in our equipment in use. On this basis, I recommend examples of training exercises with the use of modern equipment for ice hockey, and I brought a few suggestions on how to properly work with modern tools. Keywords: Ice Hockey, Skating, Stickhandling, Equipmens, Slide Board, Passmaster, Attack triangle, SweetHands

Title: The ice- hockey teams financial comparison Targets: The aim of this thesis is to compare the financial results of the Czech ice-hockey professional clubs during time period. Methods There were applied the basic financial and analytical tools - bankruptcy and credibility models which are able to show the current financial power of the monitored clubs. Results: Results of the used bankruptcy and credibility models shows that a lot of the top Czech ice-hockey professional clubs are facing the serious financial issues, even some of them are threatened of the bankruptcy. Key words: comparison, ice hockey, ELH, bankruptcy models, creditworthy models

Title: Retrospective evaluation of results Wingate test in their junior national U18 Objectives: The aim of this thesis is to compare condition levels according to the Wingate test and game results achieved in individual MSJ U18 and determine the degree of functional dependence Wingate anaerobic test parameters according to the U18 category, with a later application of the elite players in the world competitions. Methods: In this thesis has been used retrospective collection of quantitative data from sources ČSLH. Evaluation data were gathered using a correlation relationships of speed and power variables and placement classes at MSJ, respectively. achieved level of competition. The comparison of speed and power variables between years was used analysis of variance with repeated measurements. Results: It was found that the velocity-force characteristics ice hockey player found Wingate test does not have a statistically significant effect on the location of MSJ year and only low statistical significance was found between the variable ANC/kg and the level of competition achieved by the player. The difference between years in speed and power characteristics were not reported. Keywords: ice hockey, condition, player, forward, defender, Wingate test.

TITLE: Specifics of training process in ice hockey teams in junior categories AUTHOR: Bc. Tomáš Jobek DEPARTMENT: Physical Education Department SUPERVISOR: PaedDr. Ladislav Pokorný ABSTRAKT: This thesis maps the training process junior categories in ice hockey. Reproach characteristic specifics which are within the training sessions and matches in this age group occur. Using questionnaires, which I sent to schools attended junior category players, the players themselves junior category and also coaches the junior age category I investigated the influence of load on their academic performance. Access to school junior category players. Organization of training units in a racing cycle. KEYWORDS: ice hockey, strength, speed, agility, endurance, technique, tactics, training unit, a competitive match, the younger adolescents, older adolescents, adolescents.

My Diploma aims to show how political decisions in international context affected sport in Czechoslovakia. By putting events in context it is essential to illustrate the popularity of ice hockey in Bohemia and Czechoslovakia. The purpose of the thesis is to truthfully describe the important milestones of the Czechoslovak ice hockey based on the oral history, archival sources and periodicals. As sport can be perceived as a mirror of the society, it is possible to show how the Czechoslovak society changed from 1945 up to 1969. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The aim of this study was to examine leadership styles among head officials in the SHL and how they communicate leadership to ice hockey players in the SHL. The aim of this study was also to examine what type of leadership head officials in the SHL believe is requested from ice hockey players in the SHL. The selection of the study consisted of ten head officials in the SHL from the ice hockey season of 2016/2017, and the data collection was acquired trough semi-structured interviews with the participants. The collected data was subsequently analysed trough a thematic method. The results showed that there is no monolithic leadership style amongst the interviewed head officials in the SHL during the 2016/2017 ice hockey season. To find a leadership style that acts according to yourself is a vital part to be able to lead an individual or individuals. The ten interviewed head officials of the SHL described that body-language is a vital part of their leadership. They also described their way of working with positive feedback in communications with ice hockey players in the SHL as a way to encourage or transform actions of ice hockey players. The results of the study also indicates that the ten interviewed head officials in the SHL believe that a distinct and communicative leadership is the preferred option amongst ice hockey players in the SHL. / Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka ledarskapsstilar bland huvuddomare i SHL (Svenska ishockeyligan) och hur de förmedlar och kommunicerar ledarskap till ishockeyspelare i SHL. Den här studien undersöker även vilket ledarskap huvuddomare i SHL upplever att ishockeyspelare i SHL efterfrågar. Urvalet i studien bestod av tio huvuddomare i SHL under ishockeysäsongen 2016/2017, och datainsamlingen genomfördes genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med deltagarna. Den insamlade datan analyserades sedan genom en tematisk analys. Resultatet från studien visar att det inte finns en enhetlig ledarskapsstil bland de intervjuade huvuddomarna i SHL under ishockeysäsongen 2016/2017. Att hitta ett ledarskap som fungerar för en själv är en essentiell faktor för att kunna leda en individ eller en grupp individer. De tio intervjuade huvuddomarna beskriver att de ser kroppsspråk som en viktig del i deras ledarskap. De flesta av de intervjuade huvuddomarna arbetar även med positiv återkoppling i kommunikationer med ishockeyspelare i SHL för att uppmuntra eller förändra ett beteende hos ishockeyspelare. I resultatet från studien framgår även att de tio intervjuade huvuddomarna i SHL upplever att ett tydligt och kommunikativt ledarskap är efterfrågat från ishockeyspelare i SHL.