Become a Hockey Scout: Online Hockey Scouting Course
“Our goal is to help aspiring scouts take their first steps as they begin down their path towards becoming a scout.”
Want to become a hockey scout? Scouts U’s hockey scouting course teaches aspiring scouts exactly what NHL scouts look for, straight from the team behind HockeyProspect.com. Not too long after HockeyProspect.com launched back in 2004 and especially over the past 10 to 12 years, we began getting asked over and over again if we offered any kind of scouting course or scouts training. Over the years, our team of scouts have obviously gained a lot of experience while scouting for us, but we didn’t have an actual course to offer to the general public.
Over several of the past 13 summers we’ve spent a few weeks in July chipping away at this scouting course project. It has taken us much longer to complete than we had planned, but we’ve finally launched an online course which will give aspiring scouts the opportunity to get their feet wet in the hockey scouting profession.
Welcome to Scouts U, the home of the Scouts Training Course. Our intro course is delivered online and available to begin upon signup. Learn at your own pace. Part I is mostly focused on educating students on all facets of scouting a prospects traits. Part II is more focused on the practical. We also dive into some of the processes involved in scouting for the NHL Draft, and much much more. Ready to become a hockey scout? Enroll in the hockey scouting course. (coming soon)
What You’ll Learn in the Scouts Training Course
Our hockey scouting course covers the fundamentals every scout needs — we cover skating, hockey sense, compete level, and the physical and skill traits that separate NHL prospects from the rest of the pack. Then you get your feet wet and write some reports.
Who This Course Is For
Whether you’re trying to break into scouting as a career, work for a junior or pro team’s scouting staff, or you just want to watch the game the way NHL scouts do, this course was built to assist in getting you there. You don’t need previous scouting experience to start — we start from the ground up and build toward the same evaluation process our own scouts use for HockeyProspect.com.
Learn From Experienced Scouts
This isn’t theory from outsiders. HockeyProspect.com has been producing NHL Draft coverage since 2004, and the scouts who built this course are the same ones scouting prospects every week. When you take the Scouts Training Course, you’re learning what we use— not a generic scouting checklist.
