Larry Pedrie

Larry Pedrie has spent his entire life in hockey and is one of the most experienced professionals teaching today’s game to youth players. Larry was born and raised in Detroit, MI where he played all of his youth hockey. In 1977 Larry entered Ferris State as a freshmen member of the hockey team. At Ferris State Larry was a four year letterman earning the Most Improved Player Award as a senior in 1981. Immediately upon graduation Larry entered college coaching as an assistant at Ferris.

In 1984 Larry left Ferris to accept an assistant coach position at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Larry stayed at UIC until 1987 and then moved to Ann Arbor to work with Red Berenson as the assistant coach at the University of Michigan. During Larry’s three years at Michigan he played a crucial role in positively turning the direction of the Michigan hockey program. In 1990 Larry returned to Chicago as the head coach of the UIC Flames, a position he held until 1996.

Larry began his affiliation with the Chicago Blackhawks in the spring of 1996. Serving as the Blackhawks’ advance scout, Larry was responsible for scouting upcoming playoff opponents and breaking down the opponent’s systems and tendencies, and then providing this information to the Blackhawk coaching staff. Within this position Larry also played a similar role at Blackhawk home games working with Chicago coaches Craig Hartsburg, Dirk Graham, and Lorne Molleken.

In 1997, Larry co-founded the Chicago Chill AAA hockey club. Larry has served as program director since the club’s inception and has coached many Chill teams. In 2000 Larry’s midget team upset heavily favored and defending national champion

Shattuck’s St. Mary’s in the national semi-final and finished second in the nation to national champion Eastern Mass. Senators. Seventeen players from that midget team will have advanced to Jr. A hockey by completion of the current season. Throughout Larry’s involvement in youth hockey, he has operated countless camps and clinics to the benefit of thousands of youth hockey players.