SHOOTING AND SCORING

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…

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)…

Drill: Tic-Tac-Toe Down Low

By CoachC | February 7, 2024
Drill: Tic-Tac-Toe Down Low

This drill needs at least 7 players for flow at one end of the ice, from the hash marks to the boards…

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…

The Shooting Gallery Drill

By CoachC | January 27, 2024
The Shooting Gallery Drill

This is a drill I like to use when we are short players. The drill itself needs 3-5 players plus a goalie and does not take up a lot of room on the ice surface…

Jerry Z’s New Stick

By | December 5, 2023
Jerry Z’s New Stick

After several hockey friends recently hit me with questions having to do with hockey sticks, it struck me that I might dig back into the CoachChic.com archives for a long ago post where I really got into a former student’s issues with his stick.

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 85

By | November 15, 2023
CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 85

Each episode includes awesome advice from hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors, with past episodes are available on CCC-TV Youtube…

Crosby Sets Up Letang

By | October 21, 2023
Crosby Sets Up Letang

Every so often I like to dig back into my video vault for something that offers some solid teaching principles. And for today, I have a doosy from way, way back

WHAT THE BLEEP IS FLOORBALL?

By | October 17, 2023
WHAT THE BLEEP IS FLOORBALL?

As you’ll discover, Greg Beaudin knows his stuff.  So, here he is, answering a question many of you may have asked (but not necessarily in such a colorful way)…

“Specialized” Hockey Training

By | October 11, 2023
“Specialized” Hockey Training

“You Don’t Need Ice” mainly includes things I want to share with hockey players, coaches and parents from my old Soviet hockey studies and my coaching degree studies…