A Coach’s Notebook

Hockey’s When In Doubt Rule

By CoachC | February 18, 2022

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CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 64

By CoachC | February 16, 2022

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

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A Quick Snippet of Some Awesome Crossover Training with Bands

By | February 10, 2022

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

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

A Follow-up to: How Much Can We Copy From The Stars?

By | February 8, 2022

Like many other posts here, this one was inspired by some enthusiastic hockey friends. In fact, this one comes from an awesome Facebook group called “GOAL ! Hockey in the 70’s“, a group I enjoy visiting at least several times per day. Anyway, a few days ago a post titled “All time All Star points…

A New Kind of Hockey Skating

By | February 5, 2022

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Designing Puck-skill Hockey Drills

By | January 31, 2022

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A New Twist on Hockey Passing

By | January 27, 2022

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The Mathematics of Stick Targets

By | January 23, 2022

I’m half joking about the above title. I mean, you probably don’t believe we should have to get very technical about how to hold a stick blade when readying for a pass. Yet, I find passes being muffed so often that I feel compelled to get into this subject pretty deeply. In fact, once or…