A Coach’s Notebook

Resisted Shooting

By CoachC | March 8, 2022
Resisted Shooting

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If I Had A Young Hockey Player

By CoachC | March 8, 2022
If I Had A Young Hockey Player

Okay, let’s get that last part out of the way — about systematically (and safely) bringing a youngster from one level to the next… You see, I often liken this to the math sciences, asking a hockey parent or coach if he’d recommend a first grader skip right from basic addition and subtraction — never…

What I See As the Ice Hockey And In-line Connection

By CoachC | February 28, 2022
What I See As the Ice Hockey And In-line Connection

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Develop Hockey Skills Like Lionel Messi – Part 1

By CoachC | February 23, 2022
Develop Hockey Skills Like Lionel Messi – Part 1

Okay, like any sports fan does today, I scrambled for two resource areas — beginning with Wikipedia (I later searched YouTube to see for myself)… “Lionel Andrés “Leo” Messi; born 24 June 1987 is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the…

A Sample Snippet of Some Czech Shooting Drills

By CoachC | February 20, 2022
A Sample Snippet of Some Czech Shooting Drills

As I said in reference to Oldrich Jindra’s earlier snippet, “Coaches love drills!” So, once again he’s sharing some ideas for shooting drills that might prove interesting and challenging to developing hockey players. Fortunately for us, Oldrich appears monthly with a new collection of drills he’s gathered from around the world. And, with all that,…

Hockey’s When In Doubt Rule

By CoachC | February 18, 2022
Hockey’s When In Doubt Rule

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CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 64

By CoachC | February 16, 2022
CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 64

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…

Hockey Skating Gifs

By | February 15, 2022
Hockey Skating Gifs

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A Quick Snippet of Some Awesome Crossover Training with Bands

By | February 10, 2022
A Quick Snippet of Some Awesome Crossover Training with Bands

The mark of a modern day hockey player is that he or she be an outstanding athlete, first and foremost. And to old Coach Chic, athleticism is best developed through the use of certain “crossover sports” or activites. Fortunately for us, Dave “The Band Man” offers monthly training in the use of rubber bands for…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #22

By | February 10, 2022
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #22

Addressing listener mail — a welcome to “Pure Hockey Magazine” readers Benefits of Coach Chic’s work in “the bunker” Team NEHI spring workouts in The MOTION Lab Using media to enhance coaching