SKATING

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…

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…

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

By CoachC | January 31, 2024
What’s Wrong with this Picture?

Thankfully, a number of members have weighed-in, or offered their opinions or guesses, and I applaud the bulk of them for coming fairly close to what I’ll be suggesting down below…

The Garage Sale Drill

By CoachC | January 25, 2024
The Garage Sale Drill

The sender of this drill seems to have a knack for fun oriented drills.  Ya, her approach to the game always seems to make me smile, and I can just imagine that her players look forward to what she might have planned next…

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…

Speed Skating Versus Hockey Skating

By | November 7, 2023
Speed Skating Versus Hockey Skating

I pulled parts of this piece out of my archives. It’s a few years old now, but it’s still loaded with great advice for my current hockey friends…

The Nature of Our Game (revisited)

By | October 26, 2023
The Nature of Our Game (revisited)

Despite my inclination to frequently think outside the proverbial box, I’d like members to know that I don’t make hockey related decisions without a lot of serious thought. In fact, over my forty-plus years in coaching, I’ve mostly relied upon a set of standards I’ve come to call “The Nature of Our Game”…

Rope Skipping Benefits for Hockey Players

By | October 24, 2023
Rope Skipping Benefits for Hockey Players

I think it best that I show you a very short video before we get into a discussion on the benefits of rope skipping, this to act as sort of a frame of reference…