Thinking the Game – as a Goaltender

A Sample Hockey Practice Plan

By | February 13, 2023
A Sample Hockey Practice Plan

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…

How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

By | December 30, 2022
How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

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Help for a Discouraged Hockey Goaltender

By | November 17, 2022
Help for a Discouraged Hockey Goaltender

The following came in recently via email (although I’d prefer folks contact me through the Ask The Coach page).  No matter, I felt for the young guy who sent it, and I wanted to offer some thoughts as soon as I could. With that as an intro, I’ve removed just a few things from the…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 31 and 32

By | October 26, 2022
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 31 and 32

As the new podcast intro says, I had to break down my studio upon moving from Massachusetts to Florida, and it’s actually taken quite some time here in the Sunshine State before I was able to put things back together again. I’m back, however, and gradually getting into the swing of things… Below please find…

Hockey Line Changes

By | October 22, 2022
Hockey Line Changes

Getting right to that coach’s main question here, my feeling is that the time to teach changes on-the-fly has an awful lot to do with a team’s overall game awareness.  Said yet another way, I’ll suggest that youngsters who have their basic skills under control, and those who are able to understand basic positioning, should…

Dumping The Puck

By | October 21, 2022
Dumping The Puck

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Does Coaching Win (Hockey) Championships?

By | September 15, 2022
Does Coaching Win (Hockey) Championships?

Dean Robinson begins his article suggesting that pro athletes tend to have more influence on a game’s outcome than the coach (think Dirk Nowitzki and LeBron James here, maybe a Michael Jordan in years past, the stars who comprised the 1927 New York Yankees, the Islanders and Oilers during different parts of the ’80′s).  This…

A Message to My Favorite Parents & Players

By | September 7, 2022
A Message to My Favorite Parents & Players

(An Idea For Team Coaches) Okay, I’ll need to explain this post some… You see, a number of years ago I decided to create a website just for my team — and by that, I mean for my team’s parents, their kids, and my assistants. The majority of the posts were videos, with some diagrams,…

Tried and True Hockey Principles

By | August 30, 2022
Tried and True Hockey Principles

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Scoring on Breakaways or Shootouts

By | July 20, 2022
Scoring on Breakaways or Shootouts

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