A Coach’s Notebook

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…

Big Ball Keepaway for a Mental Distraction

By | January 21, 2022

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A Sample Snippet of Some Czech Attack Drills

By | January 19, 2022

It’s been said often that, “Coaches love drills!” And we know no one with a better collection of drills than our CCC-TV Hockey Show contributor Oldrich Jindra. Fortunately for us, Oldrich appears monthly with a new collection of drills he’s gathered from around the world. With all that, here’s a quick snippet from a CCC-TV…

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 63

By | January 14, 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…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #23

By | January 11, 2022

Back in ‘the bunker”… Some (unusual?) ideas about equipment adaptations Comparing the needs of a baseball batter to those of a hockey player Sharing thoughts on mixing new training ideas with old ones More about my teams’ off-season training program

A Great Passing/Receiving Drill

By | January 11, 2022

Searching for ways to gain more repetition with a given skill (just to avoid doing the same old drills over and over again), I especially like substituting “hand passing” — with a beanbag, a ball or a puck — as a way of reinforcing basic passing skills. And, the reason I KNOW this form of…