A Coach’s Notebook

How Hockey Coaches Can Motivate Players And Keep Them Engaged

By | May 2, 2023
How Hockey Coaches Can Motivate Players And Keep Them Engaged

Effective motivation is crucial for ice hockey coaches to keep their players engaged and focused during practices and games. Here are some strategies that coaches can use to effectively motivate their players…

Another Introduction to Floorball

By | April 29, 2023
Another Introduction to Floorball

By now I’m hoping you’re seeing floorball as a pretty fast-paced and exciting team sport that has grown in popularity around the world…

Coming… May 2023

By | April 28, 2023
Coming… May 2023

For those who are new here, please know I do this as sort of a courtesy to my members and potential members, trying to give them a sense of what’s “coming” within the next month…

Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 1

By | April 27, 2023
Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 1

While I never want to abandon any training ideas that are working well, you can almost be sure that I’ll make some changes to my teaching approach…

Self-Discipline: Paying Yourself Forward

By | April 24, 2023
Self-Discipline:  Paying Yourself Forward

We’ve been very fortunate to have a number of great guest writers over the years.  Most of them have come from friendships I’ve developed over on my favorite social media site, and all of them have been from among the small group I refer to as “Twitter’s Best and Brightest”…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 37

By | April 21, 2023
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 37

As a coach writes me, “I’m going to be coaching a u19 Girls team this year.  We start our camp in Lake Placid soon — eating, sleeping and training in the Olympic Center, with plenty of team bonding.  Any suggestions?”

Thoughts on Puck Protection Skills

By | April 19, 2023
Thoughts on Puck Protection Skills

Okay, hopefully we get some decent hockey conversations going here, all to the betterment of my fellow coaches, parents and adult rec players…

With summer right around the corner, are you being S.M.A.R.T.?

By | April 17, 2023
With summer right around the corner, are you being S.M.A.R.T.?

Summer is quickly approaching! Do you have a plan? Do not miss out on a great opportunity to prepare yourself for next hockey season…

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 78

By | April 16, 2023
CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 78

Currently many past episodes are available to the public on our CCC-TV Youtube Channel. Sometime soon, however, all past episodes may be archived (for members-only to view at their leisure)…

Hockey Team Building

By | April 13, 2023
Hockey Team Building

First, with the off-season now upon us, coaches should be considering ways to prepare their teams for next fall.

Secondly, I discovered long ago that good teams tend to begin with a lot of small factions or even cliques, and some of the ideas shared below are just right for breaking down a lot barriers between those groups…