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Unlocking the Power of a Fast Mind in Hockey

By CoachC | March 16, 2024
Unlocking the Power of a Fast Mind in Hockey

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
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

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
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2

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…

How About a 3 on 3 Tournament

By CoachC | March 5, 2024
How About a 3 on 3 Tournament

Perhaps like anywhere else, a lot of rinks in Massachusetts looked for creative ways to use ice-time during their off-season months…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

By CoachC | March 1, 2024
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

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

Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

By CoachC | February 21, 2024
Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

Many good drills require some sort of training aid (I’ve mentioned previously that a lot of pretty good training tools can even be homemade)…

Profiling the Hockey Skate Blade

By CoachC | February 4, 2024
Profiling the Hockey Skate Blade

I’ll introduce David W. Carlson a little later, and invite visitors here to leave questions down below for David. But for now, let him take it away…

Dustin Pedroia’s Hand-eye Coordination

By CoachC | February 2, 2024
Dustin Pedroia’s Hand-eye Coordination

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…

Can We Learn Anything From the NBA’s Greatest Small Forward?

By CoachC | January 28, 2024
Can We Learn Anything From the NBA’s Greatest Small Forward?

If I had my way, site members would watch the following video all the way through before thinking about another thing. That done, however, we could move on to consider the real question at hand…

Athletes Just Keep Getting Stronger and Stronger

By CoachC | December 31, 2023
Athletes Just Keep Getting Stronger and Stronger

Two long ago news events caused me to bring a few thoughts to my members’ minds — those having to do with MLB and the NHL…