player/coach pregame ?

[sj]

I've notice reading through here that no one is recommending that you get into how you are going to make calls. I learned that a long time ago. If you say something about how you are going to call hand checking or something specific you are just setting yourself up for trouble the first time that something happens that makes it look like you aren't doing what you said you were going to. Now and then you still get a partner that does this and it just sets us up for problems.

Another thing to do is to quickly give the captains themselves something to do during the game. Specifically if a problem comes up with one of the players on their team tell them to take care of them before we have to.