A Mighty Mite Team Doing Wide-dribbles

A Mighty Mite Team Doing Wide-dribbles

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…

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The Offensive “Bag of Tricks”

The Offensive “Bag of Tricks”

At times, this one seemed humorous. Yet, it really was sad… What I’m getting at are my observations of a long ago college guy who once played for me.  Actually, he was a pretty talented forward.  At the same time, he would sometimes get absolutely killed because he was what one might call a “one-trick…

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The Best Advice I Could Ever Share

The Best Advice I Could Ever Share

I guess I ought to preface this post with the fact that I was eventually working with about my third generation of hockey players.  Yes, I’d coached or instructed thousands of kids over about 45-years.  So, over that time, you can guess that I’d pretty much seen it all.  And, over that time, I’d also…

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