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Towel – Band Strength Training

By CoachC | April 29, 2025

A Towel is the simplest and most cost effective way to add in variety to your band strength training workouts.

2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

By CoachC | April 23, 2025
2 Ideas We Can Borrow from Ovechkin – Part 2

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A Mighty Mite Team Doing Wide-dribbles

By CoachC | April 16, 2025
A Mighty Mite Team Doing Wide-dribbles

A young coach wrote me in our Ask The Coach section, and readers should soon catch on to his question… ~ Dennis C Hey Cliff! It’s awesome to see how much you care about coaching your Mighty Mite team there in Rhode Island. Teaching them a cool, advanced move like the wide-dribble puckhandling skill is…

A REAL Goaler Challenge

By CoachC | April 15, 2025
A REAL Goaler Challenge

I should have prefaced a previous post (Goaler Warm-ups) with a reminder, in that our goaltenders start learning to juggle on their very first days with us. Most of them need to start with one ball, and then very slowly progress to a second and a third. Yes, a little at a time, the degree…

Adding Game-like Pressure to Hockey Drills

By CoachC | April 9, 2025
Adding Game-like Pressure to Hockey Drills

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Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 61

By CoachC | April 1, 2025

Within “AI” circles “Michael” is viewed as a good one, and don’t forget to view this post as an introduction to April’s content…

The Offensive “Bag of Tricks”

By PantherPride | March 26, 2025
The Offensive “Bag of Tricks”

At times, this one seemed humorous. Yet, it really was sad… What I’m getting at are my observations of a long ago college guy who once played for me.  Actually, he was a pretty talented forward.  At the same time, he would sometimes get absolutely killed because he was what one might call a “one-trick…

About Goaltending Help

By CoachC | March 18, 2025
About Goaltending Help

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A Puckhandler’s Field of Vision

By CoachC | March 15, 2025
A Puckhandler’s Field of Vision

Meagan B asks, “I’m wondering now about how to develop better vision on the ice when I’m handling the puck…

Dynamic Stabilization

By CoachC | March 13, 2025

Dave Schmitz advises us on Dynamic Stabilization, or the ability of the muscles to stabilize a joint on the move…