General Positional Advice
Background Skills for Performing Higher Level Tactics
A coach from Michigan emails to ask for help with one-against-one situations for his Pee Wee level team…
Read MoreA Misuse of the Hockey Term “Checking”
Almost every time I ask a group of young players to define the term “checking”, they will blurt out something like, “Smash ’em into the boards!” However…
Read MoreA Sample Hockey Practice Plan
Before anyone thinks the following is going to be just for coaches, I want to point-out that I’ll be sharing some of my thinking behind the drills I’ll list. Hopefully then, a lot of this will prove valuable to older hockey players and to parents of younger ones…
Read MoreJust a Few Reasons to Start a Floorball Program
As hockey’s off-season gradually nears, I’ve been planting some seeds concerning floorball. With that, I’ve already published a few related posts, while readers can expect more as the springtime nears…
Read MoreI Just Found These Old Hockey Game Notes
If there’s a difference between my old coaching schedule and those of most members, it’s that my high school guys started way back in June only to leave me at the American Thanksgiving, while my youngest teams were just getting underway in the early fall…
Read MoreMy New Hockey Coaching Manual – “10 things you can do to improve your hockey play – No matter your age or level!”
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Read MoreHow NHL Teams Evaluate Their Prospects At The World Juniors
Fans watch through a different lens than scouts, who watch through a different lens than management personnel. While many fans are focused on the best players or their favorite team, scouts are primarily focused on draft-eligible players… More…
Read MoreHow Pro Hockey Scouts Think
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Read MoreAnother Chicken or Egg Story
By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my…
Read MoreInstilling Heart and Desire in a Hockey Player
Now, believing in myself as I do, I wrote back to say that I see it as relatively easy to accomplish — with a couple of IFs. Ya, a couple of dawgoned IFs… Okay, so I’m boasting a bit as I write back to the former pro, telling him I know exactly how I’ve always…
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