Kimberly Smith Lukhard is on a roll, dealing with a different healthy food for hockey players, or special one for each letter of the alphabet. This episode features the letter “D” and “dates”, which Kim says are awesome as a pre-game or pre-practice snack… To watch the entire video, please click HERE! * PS: The…
I made these recordings not long before my move to Florida. After many years of coaching high school, Juniors and college, I found it fun to be paid to coach both a Mite and a Bantam team. Anyway, the reason the enclosed audios aren’t so great is because I was recording while driving to a…
Now, the Story Behind the Story… Some years ago my youngest brother sent me a collection of songs he’d written, composed and sung for me to try as background music in some of my hockey videos. Anyway, the CD he sent me sat for a week or so before I had a chance to browse…
By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my…
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…
Dave Schmitz offers some “band training” ideas especially aimed at working the core, but also including some really taxing movements for the skating movement. (I’d use these at home to pass by others on your team or in your league.) So, do check this one out… To watch the entire video, please click HERE! *…
She began with the following: Hi Coach Chic, Sorry to bother you but I’ve been searching your site and have not had any luck on finding the info for sizing a hockey stick. By now, I hope she knows she wasn’t bothering me at all. Again, I invite anyone in our game to bother me…
I’ve studied many coaching greats over the years, many of them from sports other than hockey. And here’s one I was always fascinated by… Nick Bollettieri, the legendary tennis coach who worked with some of the sport’s most prominent figures, died at his home in Florida over the weekend following a series of health issues.…
Former Rensselaer head coach Mike Addesa died on Tuesday. He was 77 years old. The Worcester Railers Junior Hockey Club announced Addesa’s passing on social media. Addesa was the GM of that program. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our beloved coach Michael Addesa Jr. Coach passed…
Now, believing in myself as I do, I wrote back to say that I see it as relatively easy to accomplish — with a couple of IFs. Ya, a couple of dawgoned IFs… Okay, so I’m boasting a bit as I write back to the former pro, telling him I know exactly how I’ve always…