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While this one originated with a question from a long time high school hockey coach, my answer probably isn’t going to exactly get too much into what he expects. Â Oh, it’ll be good stuff for him, but I’m going to go a little bit beyond what he’s asking in order to really help his player…
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Drill Description: Thinking about most drills â the ones that arenât expressly designed forgoalkeepers often arenât very helpful for them. When most drills involvethe goalkeeper, itâs only to stop an initial shot, and nothing else, butwhatâs just as important as making the initial save is getting in thehabit controlling where rebounds go. Too often, drills…
Okay, I have to start with a huge smile here, because Iâve just finished browsing through some old notes reflecting back on what Iâd call — for the lack of a better name — a âtryoutâ I ran a few years back for a new 5- and 6-year old team coming from my winter Learn-to-skate/Learn-to-play…
Number one, just because this piece centers around young hockey players doesn’t mean those dealing with older players aren’t going to gain from it. With that, I recently received a great question via social media. And, since it seemed something worthy of most parents and coaches of very young kids, I asked the writer if…
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While I studied long ago in the old USSR, I found it interesting that their coaches used a lot of activities for training that we’d have defined as schoolyard or playground games her in the states. Perhaps what I found most interesting was the fact that we North Americans had abandoned many of those physical…
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