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Helicopter Studies Muddy the Youth Hockey Waters

By | June 9, 2022 |
Helicopter Studies Muddy the Youth Hockey Waters

If this doesn’t help me start making my case, I guess nothing will… For, an article written by Julie Lythcott-Haims and entitled “Helicoptered kids are sputtering out” left the Dallas News on August 5, 2015, and seemingly selected parts of it ended up on a sports related site only three days later as “Helicopter Parents…

An Open Letter to All AAA Hockey Programs

By | June 3, 2022 |
An Open Letter to All AAA Hockey Programs

Published April 2015 – Before I get rolling here, let me say that — as usual, a number of things set me off on this topic… First, after almost a lifetime of running my own programs, I later had the chance (and the pleasure, really) to observe a number of other AA and AAA programs,…

Teaching Hockey In A Closet – 1

By | May 29, 2022 |
Teaching Hockey In A Closet – 1

As it turned out, my presentation encompassed six videos, with those segments containing both old and new information (when it comes to what my CoachChic.com members now). With this, my aim in this first segment is to just introduce the idea of “teaching hockey in a closet”… For those who won’t have access to the…

A Sample Snippet on One Way to Quicken the Shot

By | May 22, 2022 |
A Sample Snippet on One Way to Quicken the Shot

This old coach has always been looking for game-related skill drills, and this is an awesome example. You see, at one point during their season, I discovered that my feeder team was struggling to react quickly enough to loose pucks in the offensive crease. In other words, by the time they reacted to such conditions,…

An Intro To Dreams And Hockey

By | May 21, 2022 |
An Intro To Dreams And Hockey

Please appreciate that a Part 2 is soon to follow on this post. In fact, it’ll be loaded with details, including a pretty good “how to” segment on ways coaches, parents and players can benefit from combining dreams and hockey. As for recent program, it involved a couple of hours of an interview with Craig…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #26

By | May 17, 2022 |
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #26

Below please find the Show Notes for Podcast 26 of Coach Chic’s Hockey Secrets. Please remember that this podcast might be well over a decade old, but as the intro says, most of the principles shared within are just as valid today… Finally, thanks for listening, and please do add your comments or impressions down…

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 67

By | May 15, 2022 |
CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 67

Each CCC-TV episode includes awesome advice from some of hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors.  Non-members should know that the latest episode might only be available to the public for awhile. Currently many past episodes are available to the public on our CCC-TV Youtube Channel. Sometime soon, however, all past episodes may be archived (for…

Using Mini-tramps for Hockey

By | May 13, 2022 |
Using Mini-tramps for Hockey

Okay, so up front, I highly recommend that members look into this unique training gadget. I’m talking about finding lots of scientific info, and some unbelievable ideas when it comes to the health benefits of “bounding” (for mom and dad and other non-playing family members, as well). I’ve actually mentioned various ways of using mini-tramps…

Challenging Hockey Balance

By | May 12, 2022 |
Challenging Hockey Balance

As I so often like to do, I’m going to have members view the video first, and then add my impressions after. You at least have some advanced notice here, about the gist of this being for challenging hockey balance… Okay, up front, I’m not a big fan of the treadmill. Nor would I be…

Those Young Russian Hockey Players

By | April 30, 2022 |
Those Young Russian Hockey Players

Ya, those young Russian hockey players… Even I’m amused at watching those little guys darting every which way, twisting and turning and seldom losing the puck. Anyway, in the event you’re the only person on our planet to not see them, let me show you an edited version of that video… Okay, my members had…