Age Specific Training

New CC Store Opening

By CoachC | June 25, 2024
New CC Store Opening

Here’s a chance to dive into a world of hockey knowledge with our collection of ebooks, audiobooks and more. Whether you’re a hockey parent, a coach, a seasoned player or just starting out, we have the resources to elevate your game…

RESPECTING Young Hockey Players

By CoachC | June 23, 2024
RESPECTING Young Hockey Players

Although this post SEEMS like it’s entirely geared toward very young skaters, I’d like those who deal with older guys and gals to please drink-in the gist of it.  I’ll have a further comment for you at the very end…

Planning Tonight’s Hockey Practice

By CoachC | June 3, 2024
Planning Tonight’s Hockey Practice

I was readying for my team’s second on-ice practice of that summer, when it struck me that member coaches — and even hockey parents — would like some insight into my practice planning process.

Picking A Youth Hockey Program

By CoachC | April 4, 2024
Picking A Youth Hockey Program

A few years ago I became an adviser (or expert) with a youth sports association, primarily attempting to help hockey parents, coaches and players with their skills related training problems…

Losing Players by the Whistle?

By CoachC | March 28, 2024
Losing Players by the Whistle?

As much as I’m into improving skating and stickhandling and playing smarts, I’m frequently thinking this website wouldn’t be worth a hoot without the kind of articles that are surfacing here…

Learning Hockey — with Coach Chic & Chomper

By CoachC | December 29, 2023
Learning Hockey — with Coach Chic & Chomper

If your son, daughter or team is at the stage where they need to learn hockey’s basic rules and positioning, this is the video for them…

Building Muscle Strength with a Twist

By | November 29, 2023
Building Muscle Strength with a Twist

Unlike traditional forms of exercise, which usually involve moving weights or body parts through a range of motion, isometric exercises involve holding a position or contracting muscles without any movement…

We Don’t Live in a Hockey Vacuum

By | November 12, 2023
We Don’t Live in a Hockey Vacuum

While a whole bunch of hockey events have inspired this post, I can assure my many on-line friends that this has as much to do with everyday life as it does my sport…

5 More Hurdles Facing Adult Hockey Playing Newbies

By | September 30, 2023
5 More Hurdles Facing Adult Hockey Playing Newbies

The first time you lace up those skates as a grownup, they may feel like medieval instruments of torture. Your ankles wobble like a newborn foal’s. Each time you reach for the puck, you face-plant on the ice. Frustration mounts as fast as new bruises on your ego…

3 Must-Have Virtues For Hockey Parents

By | September 29, 2023
3 Must-Have Virtues For Hockey Parents

The puck drops and your mini Gretzky glides across the ice. Your heart swells with hope and pride. Will this be their breakout game? Their moment of glory?