A Coach’s Notebook

The Best Hockey Shooting Advice I Can Offer

By CoachC | March 7, 2025

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Handling More Than One Problem At Once

By CoachC | March 5, 2025

How well will comfortably dribbling a puck or ball in place really prepare a player for game action?  I’d say, not very…

Organizing a Floorball League

By CoachC | March 2, 2025

Hello Gregg, and it’s fantastic to hear about your interest in starting a floorball league in your area. Floorball is a great way to develop young hockey players’ skills and keep them engaged during the off-season. Now, here’s a step-by-step guide to help you get rolling… Starting a floorball league in your county within Georgia…

Help for Beginner Cross-overs

By CoachC | February 28, 2025

A few days ago, member Scott T. messaged me about my article on “A Difference in Hockey Teaching Levels“.  As Scott said, “I find a lot of truth here”, in reference to some of the nervousness experienced by adult level beginners as they try new things. Scott went on to say that he has “several…

Is Negative Self-Talk a Learned Behaviour?

By CoachC | February 26, 2025

Oh, man, has Shawnee hit the nail on the head once again… Okay, I need to tell you a story from about 20-plus years ago. As so often happened with me back then, I spent my winter Saturdays hopping from rink to rink around Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire. And on this one day,…

High Intensity Skating Drills – Part 3

By CoachC | February 21, 2025

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Increasing Your Team’s Shooting Power

By CoachC | February 18, 2025

I did a test recently with our HockeyMentor App, acting as a coach at the high school level, and explaining to “AI” that the challenges we’re facing are mainly in a the need to increase our shot power. Amazingly, here is some tailored advice and training solutions aimed at helping my players in this area:…

Taking on Just One Level at a Time

By CoachC | February 14, 2025

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Strength on the Hockey Skates

By CoachC | February 12, 2025

I noted previously in another entry, that I’d at one time noticed a good many of my young players either being tossed around by opponents or losing the battles whenever they had collisions on the ice. So, I tried to think of ways I could recreate those situations in a practice setting. The first drill…

High Intensity Skating Drills – Part 2

By CoachC | February 9, 2025

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