Drills

June’s Band Gym Training Program

By CoachC | June 13, 2024
June’s Band Gym Training Program

Besides offering ideas for “June” band gym training, what Dave is really going to touch upon in the following video are the various ways we can take our bands outdoors, and even on the go….

Planning Tonight’s Hockey Practice

By CoachC | June 3, 2024
Planning Tonight’s Hockey Practice

I was readying for my team’s second on-ice practice of that summer, when it struck me that member coaches — and even hockey parents — would like some insight into my practice planning process.

Band Training to improve A 40 yard dash

By CoachC | May 23, 2024
June’s Band Gym Training Program

In case members don’t know it, the 40 yard dash is used as a measure of athletes beyond football combines. As a matter of fact, it’s often seen as a measure of an ice hockey player’s sprinting speed…

Goalers as Part of a Team System

By CoachC | April 2, 2024
Goalers as Part of a Team System

In the modern day game of hockey, coaches often refer to team play as “Six on the attack, six in defense of our net!”

Build Your Chest The Right Way With Bands

By CoachC | March 30, 2024
Build Your Chest The Right Way With Bands

Hockey players should just think about how often they need to rather violently push away from an opposing player or the side boards…

Unlocking the Power of a Fast Mind in Hockey

By CoachC | March 16, 2024
Unlocking the Power of a Fast Mind in Hockey

Here’s the first advice Andrej provides us, this all about “Unlocking the Power of a Fast Mind in Hockey”…

Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

By CoachC | March 8, 2024
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

Now, from this old coach’s perspective, new drill ideas frequently come about because there’s a problem.  Said yet another way, a new drill can be created to solve a difficulty one of our players — or most of our team — is experiencing…

Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 1

By CoachC | March 6, 2024
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

It’s been several years now, since one of my Team NEHI assistants described something he’d seen on a newscast.  I guess the sports segment showed some clips of our local NHL hockey team, and then it highlighted the team’s new coach…

Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

By CoachC | February 21, 2024
Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

Many good drills require some sort of training aid (I’ve mentioned previously that a lot of pretty good training tools can even be homemade)…

Drill: Tic-Tac-Toe Down Low

By CoachC | February 7, 2024
Drill: Tic-Tac-Toe Down Low

This drill needs at least 7 players for flow at one end of the ice, from the hash marks to the boards…