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For player-health decisions

Make the player-health call as one club.

For clubs that need coaching, medical and performance decisions to meet before the player carries the cost.

AvailabilityReturn-to-playOne player picture
The hidden cost

Small disconnects become missed games, slower returns and mixed messages.

Most player-health problems do not start with careless people. They grow between responsible departments.

A coach needs the player. The medical team protects the injury. The performance staff sees the load. Development sees the longer athlete. Each view matters. The risk starts when those views stay separate until the player has to carry the contradiction.

Player health decision meeting
Connected performance decision model
The decision model

Everyone needs to know what the decision is built on.

The club needs one way to read the player without asking any department to ignore what it knows: what he can handle, what the injury allows, what the game asks and what the season is doing to him.

01Same player

Coaching, medical, performance and development look at the same player.

02Known owner

The staff knows how the call is made and who carries it when the evidence is not perfect.

03Earlier signal

The club sees the warning before it becomes a missed game.

Core functions

Availability, development and return-to-play cannot stay in separate conversations.

The work connects what the player can handle, what the game asks, what the injury allows and what the club is trying to build.

Availability

How the club reads what the player can handle, not only whether he is cleared.

Development

How long-term growth stays protected while the season keeps asking for short-term answers.

Who owns the call

How the staff knows how the call is made when the evidence is incomplete.

The standard

The club has to be able to use it without Magnus in the room.

The work should leave the club better equipped, not dependent.

The aim is to make the call earlier, with less friction and a clearer picture of the player. The club still owns the team, the people and the daily responsibility.

Performance director mandate

Experience from elite hockey and Olympic environments

People and pressure

The call still has to hold when the picture is incomplete.

The goal is not another layer. It is a cleaner call before the player pays for the gap between departments.

Johan Stark

Johan Stark

Former General Secretary · Swedish Ice Hockey Association

“Magnus always pushes himself to further his knowledge, to evolve himself and the players.”

Tommy Jonsson

Tommy Jonsson

Head Coach · Swedish Champion with Brynäs IF

“He is always up to date and well read in his area of expertise, which makes you feel a great deal of trust in him.”

Ryan Gunderson

Ryan Gunderson

Hockey consultant · Retired professional · Swiss NL

“Magnus is an outstanding hockey performance coach.”

Pattern recognition

After thirty-five years, the pattern is hard to miss.

Injury. Fitness. Communication. Selection. Readiness. Confidence. Load. Timing. Different names, same underlying problem: the club does not have one clear picture of the player.

That pattern shows up where decisions become real: the gym, the medical room, the coaches' office, the boardroom and the hard conversation around a player no single department can see clearly enough alone.

Player system inquiry

Start with the decision that keeps coming back.

Start here when the same availability, return-to-play or staff handoff problem keeps coming back under a new name.

The first reply usually shows whether this is one difficult case or a staff rhythm the club needs to fix.

Start simple

Send the player-health situation.

Kept confidential.

Describe the decision that keeps coming back, who is in the room and what the club keeps losing.

Private conversations stay private.