Professional Coach Bob Dever to Return Week  2

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Bob is currently the Head Coach of Miskolc Ice Bears in the Hungarian Elite League.   With 16 years of experience coaching junior and professional hockey, Head Coach Bob Dever brings a wealth of resources to The West Coast Hockey Prep Camp, and his personalized hockey development service Players Edge.

Highly regarded in the field, both Internationally as well as locally, Bob has had a successful career in team coaching.  Dever spent three seasons in Hungary with the Budapest Stars and Miskolc Ice Bears. Selected as an assistant coach for the Hungarian National U18 team in 2009, the following season Bob was chosen as the head coach of the Hungarian U18 team. He guided the team to a Division 1 silver medal performance in Krynica, Poland in the spring of 2010, marking the highest results ever for a Hungarian team. Bob was selected as the head coach of the Hungarian National Junior team in 2010, the team won the silver medal at the Division 2 World Championships in Romania. Prior to returning home to Canada, Coach Dever was awarded the Sera Kupa for the best Development Coach in Hungarian Youth Hockey.  

Coach Dever’s extensive resume includes positions with provincial teams, he held assistant coach positions in the BCHL both with the Merritt Centennials for two seasons and Vernon Vipers for three, and Head Coach/GM positions with the KIJHL’s Creston Valley Thunder Cats for two seasons. Bob’s career in coaching also took him into the United States in 2006-07 to experience a year with the San Antonio Diablos of the Western States Hockey League.

Passion for the game, insight and understanding into the politics of the sport and a proven method of instruction formulate the core model for the achievement and development of Coach Dever’s players. Advancing in the world of hockey can be a difficult and confusing maze, Bob combines his education, holding a Bachelors of Education and a Bachelors of Arts along with his personal and professional experience of the game to teach, instruct and guide players, along with their families, through it.  We are excited to have Bob back again this summer.