A Coach’s Notebook

Old USSR Hockey Training Ideas

By CoachC | March 29, 2022

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If I Had A Teenage Hockey Player

By CoachC | March 26, 2022

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Off-season Work on the Hockey Shot

By CoachC | March 19, 2022

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A Sample Snippet for Developing Speed

By CoachC | March 16, 2022

I can’t tell hockey folks how important it is for us to find related training ideas from other sports — the idea is to find ways to expand our abilities by “cross-training”. And, that’s the reason I love having Dave Schmitz in our CCC-TV Hockey Show lineup. We obviously have to be careful in what…

A Different Hockey Line

By CoachC | March 14, 2022

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Resisted Shooting

By CoachC | March 8, 2022

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If I Had A Young Hockey Player

By CoachC | March 8, 2022

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

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Develop Hockey Skills Like Lionel Messi – Part 1

By CoachC | February 23, 2022

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

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,…