On Tuesday, Canada Soccer unveiled its new technical development vision for soccer in Canada, entitled Canada Soccer Pathway. Your Goals. Our Game. The pathway consists of three streams of play: recreational, competitive and EXCEL (the high performance level of the game). On hand to discuss the pathway were Canada Soccer Technical Director, Tony Fonseca, womens national team head coach, John Herdman, and Canada Soccer Long-Term Player Development Manager, Sylvie Béliveau. According to Béliveau, the pathway is "built around the principles of long-term player development and encourages lifelong participation. At Canada Soccer, we believe all players deserve the best possible soccer experience, and our Canada Soccer Pathway is designed to place their needs front and centre at each and every stage." The creation of different streams in youth soccer is long overdue, and a move that is likely to be met with approval across the country. Clubs are the primary delivery agents of the recreational and competitive streams, and in the coming weeks, Canada Soccer will release a national curriculum that supports coaches working with players in the first three stages of LTPD. Canada Soccer hopes to have the curriculum for the rest of the stages ready for release by the end of the summer. The national curriculum will be a valuable resource for coaches – especially for the thousands of volunteer coaches across the country working with young players. The curriculum will contain a "Preferred Training Model" that incorporates "station work", so that clubs that are heavily reliant on volunteer coaches can maximize their resources in order to provide the best development environment possible. The preferred model allows for a four-parent collective approach to training, and frees up the volunteer parent-coach from trying to impart too much technical or tactical information in one session. There are many benefits of taking such an approach at the early stages of player development. It maximizes the availability of coaching and facility resources, it aids volunteer parent coaches by allowing them to pool their knowledge, and it places players into an environment that meets their learning needs, where shorter, diverse sessions are broken up into varying activities of different intensity. There are some questions that still need to be addressed with such an approach, though. Utilizing a "station work" approach to training requires guidance and oversight from a trained facilitator or coach educator. Do the majority of clubs across the country that are working with players between the ages of 4-12 have coach educators on staff? If not, how does Canada Soccer train coaches to be able to perform this role? Is the long-awaited "Childrens License" that has been in development finally going to be given the resources it needs to be completed? The Preferred Training Model suggests that an assessment-based coaching qualification such as this is required, so one would hope that its completion would be given top priority. More pressing questions arise when one looks further along the Canada Soccer Pathway. Given the significance of HP (high-performance) leagues in the Pathway, will Canada Soccer assume direct control of these leagues? If not, how will Canada Soccer ensure that such leagues will be open to both non-profit community clubs and for-profit private academies? If Canada Soccer is going to leave the operation of HP leagues to the respective provincial associations, how will Canada Soccer ensure that political forces do not undermine technical decisions – like the inclusion of private academies? If we are serious about creating the best possible environments for player development in Canada, then politics have no place in our technical decision-making process. Among the documents released on Tuesday was a community guide for long-term player development, as well as a womens EXCEL program guide for players and parents. Both documents provide some valuable insight into the direction of the game in Canada. Those expecting Tuesdays announcement to contain the answers for all of our developmental woes will feel very underwhelmed. Our problems run deep, and require a series of detailed, long-term solutions. While this is just the first step, it is important to remember that every long journey starts with a single step. I, for one, am hopeful that this step will take us in the right direction. Jeff Samardzija Jersey . Philbin said Thursday he wants players to treat one another with civility and he wont tolerate anything less. In taking questions for the first time since Ted Wells released his report into the bullying scandal that rocked the league, Philbin made it clear things would be cleaned up. Brandon Belt Jersey . 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Tonight, Michigans Nik Stauskas of Mississauga, Ontario.NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Filip Forsbergs hot stretch continues.Forsberg and Mike Ribeiro each had a goal and an assist to lead the Nashville Predators to a 3-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night.Matt Cullen also scored for Nashville, winner of three straight.Forsbergs seventh goal of the season came with 54 seconds left in the first, capping a three-goal opening period for the Predators.We were able to keep a lot of pucks in the offensive zone and generate a lot of attempts at the net and a lot of offence as well as a lot of good scoring opportunities, Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. It was a good start for us.Forsberg scored from the right side when Ribeiro sent a pass his way from behind the net and the rookie slipped it between Edmonton goaltender Viktor Fasth and the right post.Obviously, its really nice to get that goal — especially that late in the period, Forsberg said. You get three goals up. Its really nice, especially when it wasnt the prettiest one.Forsberg has scored in five consecutive games and has recorded 10 points in his last six games.Benoit Pouliot and Nail Yakupov had the goals for Edmonton, which had its two-game winning streak snapped.Its such a fine line between having great execution and not having it, Edmonton coach Dallas Eakins said. And we were all just a little off. Our D werent getting back quick enough. We were trying to jam it up the wall when the middle was available.Edmonton fell to 0-7-1 against fellow Western Conference teams this season.Ribeiro opened the scoring at 2:51 of the first period.James Neals shot from the right side was stopped by Fasth, but Ribeiro was in front to backhand in the rebound for his fourth of the season.It was a bad reaction, I think, offf of the first goal, Edmonton captain Andrew Ference said.dddddddddddd The first few minutes were OK, and then after the first goal it was very scrambly.Nashville has scored first in just five of 15 games.Cullen extended the lead at 9:21 of the first. Fasth stopped Seth Joness shot from the high slot, but Cullen connected on a diving backhand that just sneaked inside the right post.Cullen played his first home game of the season. He sustained an upper-body injury in the teams first preseason game and returned for the start of Nashvilles recently completed six-game road trip.Ben Scrivens replaced Fasth at the start of the second period. Fasth stopped 14 of the 17 shots he faced in the first. Scrivens made 18 saves and did not allow a goal.Pouliot got Edmonton on the scoreboard at 31 seconds of the second when he beat Nashville goaltender Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle.Rinne finished with 21 saves.Yakupov drew the Oilers within a goal when he scored at 14:42 of the second off of a nice pass from David Perron.They are a very skilled team, a fast team and we knew they would push back, Cullen said. I think we would have preferred to probably play a little better in the second and keep the game under control, but sometimes that happens. It was nice to respond with a good third period.NOTES: Nashville D Anton Volchenkov returned to the lineup after serving a four-game suspension for an illegal check to the head of Calgarys Michael Ferland Oct. 31. . At 38 years, 9 days, Cullen holds the Nashville franchise record for oldest player to score a goal. . The Oilers are 0-4-0 when trailing after one period. . Fasth entered Tuesday with a 4-0-0 career record against Nashville. ' ' '