A Coach’s Notebook

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 75

By | January 15, 2023

Each CCC-TV episode includes awesome advice from some of hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors…

The Speed of Learning

By | January 13, 2023

Shaun Goodsell, MA Founder and CEO of Mental Edge Athletes invest enormous amounts of time in practice.  Go to a football field, a hockey rink, a baseball diamond and you will most likely see coaches and athletes preparing for an upcoming contest. Many report that practice seems insignificant and boring leading some to quit and…

My New Hockey Coaching Manual – “10 things you can do to improve your hockey play – No matter your age or level!”

By | January 11, 2023

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Visualization Tips for Hockey

By | January 7, 2023

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A Not So Skater Helper

By | January 4, 2023

Aaaaah, the memories… When I was a very young coach, I was just starving for any kind of information that would advance me in that profession. And so I enlisted in just about any clinic or course that helped me in that way. (Actually, would you believe I climbed US hockey’s coaching ladder twice? Yup,…

How NHL Teams Evaluate Their Prospects At The World Juniors

By | January 2, 2023

Fans watch through a different lens than scouts, who watch through a different lens than management personnel. While many fans are focused on the best players or their favorite team, scouts are primarily focused on draft-eligible players… More…

How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

By | December 30, 2022

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

By | December 29, 2022

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

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

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…