A Coach’s Notebook

How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

By | December 30, 2022
How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

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This Snippet Is All About An Awesome Snack Before A Hockey Game

By | December 29, 2022
This Snippet Is All About An Awesome Snack Before A Hockey Game

Kimberly Smith Lukhard is on a roll, dealing with a different healthy food for hockey players, or special one for each letter of the alphabet. This episode features the letter “D” and “dates”, which Kim says are awesome as a pre-game or pre-practice snack… To watch the entire video, please click HERE! * PS: The…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 34

By | December 26, 2022
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 34

I made these recordings not long before my move to Florida. After many years of coaching high school, Juniors and college, I found it fun to be paid to coach both a Mite and a Bantam team.  Anyway, the reason the enclosed audios aren’t so great is because I was recording while driving to a…

Another Chicken or Egg Story

By | December 22, 2022
Another Chicken or Egg Story

By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my…

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 74

By | December 15, 2022
CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 74

Each CCC-TV episode includes awesome advice from some of hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors.  Non-members should know that the latest episode might only be available to the public for awhile. 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…

This Snippet Shows Some Awesome Off-ice Skating Drills

By | December 13, 2022
This Snippet Shows Some Awesome Off-ice Skating Drills

Dave Schmitz offers some “band training” ideas especially aimed at working the core, but also including some really taxing movements for the skating movement. (I’d use these at home to pass by others on your team or in your league.) So, do check this one out… To watch the entire video, please click HERE! *…

YOUR Stick

By | December 10, 2022
YOUR Stick

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Hockey Stick Measurement Help

By | December 9, 2022
Hockey Stick Measurement Help

She began with the following: Hi Coach Chic, Sorry to bother you but I’ve been searching your site and have not had any luck on finding the info for sizing a hockey stick. By now, I hope she knows she wasn’t bothering me at all.  Again, I invite anyone in our game to bother me…

Modern Hockey’s Frantic Pace

By | December 6, 2022
Modern Hockey’s Frantic Pace

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Instilling Heart and Desire in a Hockey Player

By | November 30, 2022
Instilling Heart and Desire in a Hockey Player

Now, believing in myself as I do, I wrote back to say that I see it as relatively easy to accomplish — with a couple of IFs.   Ya, a couple of dawgoned IFs… Okay, so I’m boasting a bit as I write back to the former pro, telling him I know exactly how I’ve always…