General Positional Advice

With summer right around the corner, are you being S.M.A.R.T.?

By | April 17, 2023

Summer is quickly approaching! Do you have a plan? Do not miss out on a great opportunity to prepare yourself for next hockey season…

Background Skills for Performing Higher Level Tactics

By | March 29, 2023

A coach from Michigan emails to ask for help with one-against-one situations for his Pee Wee level team…

A Misuse of the Hockey Term “Checking”

By | March 9, 2023

Almost every time I ask a group of young players to define the term “checking”, they will blurt out something like, “Smash ’em into the boards!” However…

A Sample Hockey Practice Plan

By | February 13, 2023

Before anyone thinks the following is going to be just for coaches, I want to point-out that I’ll be sharing some of my thinking behind the drills I’ll list.  Hopefully then, a lot of this will prove valuable to older hockey players and to parents of younger ones…

Just a Few Reasons to Start a Floorball Program

By | February 4, 2023

As hockey’s off-season gradually nears, I’ve been planting some seeds concerning floorball. With that, I’ve already published a few related posts, while readers can expect more as the springtime nears…

I Just Found These Old Hockey Game Notes

By | January 27, 2023

If there’s a difference between my old coaching schedule and those of most members, it’s that my high school guys started way back in June only to leave me at the American Thanksgiving, while my youngest teams were just getting underway in the early fall…

My New Hockey Coaching Manual – “10 things you can do to improve your hockey play – No matter your age or level!”

By | January 11, 2023

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How NHL Teams Evaluate Their Prospects At The World Juniors

By | January 2, 2023

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

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Another Chicken or Egg Story

By | December 22, 2022

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…