Thinking the Game – as a Goaltender
Effective Ways To Teach Hockey Players To Read And React In Games
Having a little fun here, I thought I’d lighten the format some, but without lessening the importance of our topic, teaching our players to read and react better in their games…
Read MoreEssential Skills For Intermediate Hockey Players
Intermediate-level ice hockey players need to master a range of skills to succeed in the sport. These skills include both individual and team-based abilities, as well as physical and mental attributes…
Read MoreAnother Introduction to Floorball
By now I’m hoping you’re seeing floorball as a pretty fast-paced and exciting team sport that has grown in popularity around the world…
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 MoreHow Pro Hockey Scouts Think
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Read MoreHelp for a Discouraged Hockey Goaltender
The following came in recently via email (although I’d prefer folks contact me through the Ask The Coach page). No matter, I felt for the young guy who sent it, and I wanted to offer some thoughts as soon as I could. With that as an intro, I’ve removed just a few things from the…
Read MoreCoach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 31 and 32
As the new podcast intro says, I had to break down my studio upon moving from Massachusetts to Florida, and it’s actually taken quite some time here in the Sunshine State before I was able to put things back together again. I’m back, however, and gradually getting into the swing of things… Below please find…
Read MoreHockey Line Changes
Getting right to that coach’s main question here, my feeling is that the time to teach changes on-the-fly has an awful lot to do with a team’s overall game awareness. Said yet another way, I’ll suggest that youngsters who have their basic skills under control, and those who are able to understand basic positioning, should…
Read MoreDumping The Puck
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Read MoreDoes Coaching Win (Hockey) Championships?
Dean Robinson begins his article suggesting that pro athletes tend to have more influence on a game’s outcome than the coach (think Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James here, maybe a Michael Jordan in years past, the stars who comprised the 1927 New York Yankees, the Islanders and Oilers during different parts of the ’80′s). This…
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