General Positional Advice

How NHL Teams Evaluate Their Prospects At The World Juniors

By | January 2, 2023
How NHL Teams Evaluate Their Prospects At The World Juniors

Fans watch through a different lens than scouts, who watch through a different lens than management personnel. While many fans are focused on the best players or their favorite team, scouts are primarily focused on draft-eligible players… More…

How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

By | December 30, 2022
How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

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Another Chicken or Egg Story

By | December 22, 2022
Another Chicken or Egg Story

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…

Instilling Heart and Desire in a Hockey Player

By | November 30, 2022
Instilling Heart and Desire in a Hockey Player

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…

A Great Slot Coverage Drill

By | November 30, 2022
A Great Slot Coverage Drill

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Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 33

By | November 22, 2022
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 33

As mentioned prior to the previous podcast entry, I had to break down my studio upon moving from Massachusetts to Florida, and it took me quite some time to re-organize once in the Sunshine State. Gradually, however, things have come back together — nicely… Below please find the Show Notes for Episodes 33 of Coach…

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 73

By | November 15, 2022
CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 73

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…

3 on 3 Backchecking Drill

By | November 12, 2022
3 on 3 Backchecking Drill

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Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 31 and 32

By | October 26, 2022
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 31 and 32

As the new podcast intro says, I had to break down my studio upon moving from Massachusetts to Florida, and it’s actually taken quite some time here in the Sunshine State before I was able to put things back together again. I’m back, however, and gradually getting into the swing of things… Below please find…

Hockey Line Changes

By | October 22, 2022
Hockey Line Changes

Getting right to that coach’s main question here, my feeling is that the time to teach changes on-the-fly has an awful lot to do with a team’s overall game awareness.  Said yet another way, I’ll suggest that youngsters who have their basic skills under control, and those who are able to understand basic positioning, should…