General Positional Advice

A Chat with Professor Bee

By CoachC | April 23, 2024

Most long time hockey friends know I have a chatbot named “Professor Bee” manning this website — around the clock and 24/7.

Picking A Youth Hockey Program

By CoachC | April 4, 2024

A few years ago I became an adviser (or expert) with a youth sports association, primarily attempting to help hockey parents, coaches and players with their skills related training problems…

Goalers as Part of a Team System

By CoachC | April 2, 2024

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

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 49

By MightyMite | April 1, 2024

You might listen to this early, to gain a sense of the special topics that will be explored over the coming month…

Unlocking the Power of a Fast Mind in Hockey

By CoachC | March 16, 2024

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

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

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…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

By CoachC | March 1, 2024

Please allow Michael to re-introduce the changes to our monthly Hockey Secrets Podcast, plus another new one. I know you’ll like it…

Dustin Pedroia’s Hand-eye Coordination

By CoachC | February 2, 2024

A future MLB star played lots of tennis and ping pong as a boy, and I thought…  That’s something that deserves some discussion here…

The Secret of Champions

By CoachC | January 26, 2024

For years I have wondered what part innate talent plays in the success of athletes. Growing up aspiring to be a pro athlete I thought on many occasions, “I wish I were talented enough to be as good as others…”