A Coach’s Notebook

Doing the Right Thing

By CoachC | March 14, 2024
Doing the Right Thing

I need to say right now, that most of our more advanced level work (or work with older players) should end-up being enjoyable to those in our charge…

Advice from Hockey Scouts for Aspiring Players

By CoachC | March 13, 2024
Advice from Hockey Scouts for Aspiring Players

These scouts, with their keen eye for talent and years of experience, offer invaluable advice that can help guide your child on his or her journey to success on the ice…

Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

By CoachC | March 8, 2024
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

Now, from this old coach’s perspective, new drill ideas frequently come about because there’s a problem.  Said yet another way, a new drill can be created to solve a difficulty one of our players — or most of our team — is experiencing…

Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 1

By CoachC | March 6, 2024
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

It’s been several years now, since one of my Team NEHI assistants described something he’d seen on a newscast.  I guess the sports segment showed some clips of our local NHL hockey team, and then it highlighted the team’s new coach…

How About a 3 on 3 Tournament

By CoachC | March 5, 2024
How About a 3 on 3 Tournament

Perhaps like anywhere else, a lot of rinks in Massachusetts looked for creative ways to use ice-time during their off-season months…

Looking Forward to Your Hockey Comments

By CoachC | March 4, 2024
Looking Forward to Your Hockey Comments

I guess it just comes with life in the world of Internet spam, when I’ve had to experiment with ways to encourage good comments from good people while discouraging not-so-nice comments from the not-so-nice spammers…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

By CoachC | March 1, 2024
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

Please allow Michael to re-introduce the changes to our monthly Hockey Secrets Podcast, plus another new one. I know you’ll like it…

Core Confidence

By CoachC | February 27, 2024
Core Confidence

Confidence isn’t just about flashy plays or winning games. Real confidence runs deeper — it’s about knowing you’ve got what it takes, no matter what.

Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

By CoachC | February 21, 2024
Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

Many good drills require some sort of training aid (I’ve mentioned previously that a lot of pretty good training tools can even be homemade)…

Curious not Furious

By CoachC | February 16, 2024
Curious not Furious

Shawnee Harle is a specialist in mental training, who will now continue guiding our CoachChic.com hockey members to “Win from within”…