How Should a Beginner Hold a Hockey Stick? Part 1

How Should a Beginner Hold a Hockey Stick?  Part 1

My Facebook friend, Kathy C, couldn’t have posed a more timely question.  For, beginner hockey players had been flocking to learn-to-play type clinics all over North America at the time, and a lot of new hockey parents were scratching their heads as they attempted to outfit their youngsters. More specifically, Kathy joked that I get…

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Meet “Joe”

Meet “Joe”

Although I’ve made this video and special tool available for public viewing, some training devices to come will only be available to certain levels of this site. With that, if you want to know how a sick coaching mind has functioned all these years (LOL): My grandson is now over 30 years old, but this…

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Stanley Cup visits children’s cancer center in Tampa

Stanley Cup visits children’s cancer center in Tampa

Remy Heberlein’s grandmother joked he shouldn’t touch the Stanley Cup with chocolate on his hands. The 3-year-old whose leukemia is in remission was sad he couldn’t touch hockey’s holy grail at all, but that didn’t stop his eyes from lighting up at the sight of it. He and older brother Charlie echoed their father in…

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What would you like to see in future posts?

What would you like to see in future posts?

I aim to please.   At the same time, I’ll tell you why I truly need your help…  I have so much content salted away in my studio — and more on old CDs or disks. Yet I forget a lot of that, and I also sometimes forget what others in the game truly want.…

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An Intro to The MOTION Lab

An Intro to The MOTION Lab

If there’s one thing I greatly miss after relocating from Massachusetts to Florida it’s my indoor hockey training facility I dubbed The MOTION Lab. The short video above provides a brief introduction but, I’ll look forward to sharing lots of ideas in future posts, including background information concerning some of the gadgets you see used…

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Meet the Next Great Russian Phenom

Stanley Cup visits children’s cancer center in Tampa

Matvei Michkov is just 15, but he’s already dominating the Russian junior circuit. The hockey world has been blessed with some incredible talents from Russia over the years, with titans such as Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin still playing at a high level in the NHL more than a decade after coming over to North…

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