"The international hockey community is relatively small but New Zealand continues to be recognised as a force in world hockey and we are confident of finding the right person to take us through the next four years."
While Hockey NZ remain keen to host further international tournaments on the back of their successful staging of last year's Champions Trophy, Poole said much would depend on the allocation of venues for the upcoming international Hockey League.
"Any tournament here would be beyond 2015 as the next Champions Trophy tournaments for men and women have been allocated as has the 2014 World Cup which will be played - for men and women - in Holland.
"The bid documents for 2018 are not yet out but our feeling is that a combined tournament (24 teams) - if that is what the FIH [International Hockey Federation] want - would be too big for us. But the FIH are absolutely supportive of what we have done and achieved."
National women's coach Mark Hager sees 2014 as a big year for the New Zealand teams.
"In the space of just five months there will be the Champions Trophy in India, the World Cup and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games," said Hager. "We will start building towards that later in the year.
"I can understand that a number of players wanted a break after the Olympics and certainly there was, unlike last year, no pressure on the players to return for the NHL.
"Our next major event will be the new World Series in which we will join at the quarter-final stage next June at a venue yet to be determined. Ideally we would like to host a four or six team tournament in February-March to prepare for that.
"Even if the top players are missing from the NHL we will be taking a close look as we plan to name a new national squad after the league."
Encouragingly, none of the Olympic squad have yet indicted they plan to retire and while Hager welcomes the likelihood of a settled squad, he is keen to give other players a chance with the attack the centre of his attention.
