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Towel – Band Strength Training

By CoachC | April 29, 2025

A Towel is the simplest and most cost effective way to add in variety to your band strength training workouts.

Creative Training Ideas for Goalers – Part 2

By CoachC | April 28, 2025
Creative Training Ideas for Goalers – Part 2

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2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

By CoachC | April 23, 2025
2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

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Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 3

By CoachC | April 20, 2025
Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 3

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A Mighty Mite Team Doing Wide-dribbles

By CoachC | April 16, 2025
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…

A REAL Goaler Challenge

By CoachC | April 15, 2025
A REAL Goaler Challenge

I should have prefaced a previous post (Goaler Warm-ups) with a reminder, in that our goaltenders start learning to juggle on their very first days with us. Most of them need to start with one ball, and then very slowly progress to a second and a third. Yes, a little at a time, the degree…

Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 2

By CoachC | April 13, 2025
Great Hockey Conditioning Ideas – Part 2

I think it’s important to mention a few things before actually showing you what we’ve been up to. Okay, so what I’ve done is to design almost a simulated game for my high school guys.  Oh, they weren’t going to be playing, but they wer going to condition themselves in game-like fashion. During our first…

A Hockey Goal-scoring Revelation

By CoachC | April 12, 2025
A Hockey Goal-scoring Revelation

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Adding Game-like Pressure to Hockey Drills

By CoachC | April 9, 2025
Adding Game-like Pressure to Hockey Drills

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Improving Team Breakouts

By CoachC | April 6, 2025
Improving Team Breakouts

A hockey coach from Ontaria, Canada asked a great question in our Ask The Coach section. He’s definitely my kind of coach, because he’s attempting to plan his next year’s practices now-ish. So, let’s give it a whirl… ______________ Hi Lance, As the Head Coach for an Atoms AA team in Ontario, I know you’re…