Age Specific Training

2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

By CoachC | April 23, 2025

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Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 3

By CoachC | April 20, 2025

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A Mighty Mite Team Doing Wide-dribbles

By CoachC | April 16, 2025

A young coach wrote me in our Ask The Coach section, and readers should soon catch on to his question… ~ Dennis C Hey Cliff! It’s awesome to see how much you care about coaching your Mighty Mite team there in Rhode Island. Teaching them a cool, advanced move like the wide-dribble puckhandling skill is…

Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 2

By CoachC | April 13, 2025

I think it’s important to mention a few things before actually showing you what we’ve been up to. Okay, so what I’ve done is to design almost a simulated game for my high school guys.  Oh, they weren’t going to be playing, but they wer going to condition themselves in game-like fashion. During our first…

A Hockey Goal-scoring Revelation

By CoachC | April 12, 2025

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Adding Game-like Pressure to Hockey Drills

By CoachC | April 9, 2025

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Dynamic Stabilization

By CoachC | March 13, 2025

Dave Schmitz advises us on Dynamic Stabilization, or the ability of the muscles to stabilize a joint on the move…

Handling More Than One Problem At Once

By CoachC | March 5, 2025

How well will comfortably dribbling a puck or ball in place really prepare a player for game action?  I’d say, not very…

Help for Beginner Cross-overs

By CoachC | February 28, 2025

A few days ago, member Scott T. messaged me about my article on “A Difference in Hockey Teaching Levels“.  As Scott said, “I find a lot of truth here”, in reference to some of the nervousness experienced by adult level beginners as they try new things. Scott went on to say that he has “several…

A Travel Workout

By CoachC | February 23, 2025

Dave says, “I like using or trying new equipment, but it’s not what motivates me, and it shouldn’t be what you depend on…”