Thinking the Game – Defensively

Another Introduction to Floorball

By | April 29, 2023
Another Introduction to Floorball

By now I’m hoping you’re seeing floorball as a pretty fast-paced and exciting team sport that has grown in popularity around the world…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 37

By | April 21, 2023
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 37

As a coach writes me, “I’m going to be coaching a u19 Girls team this year.  We start our camp in Lake Placid soon — eating, sleeping and training in the Olympic Center, with plenty of team bonding.  Any suggestions?”

Background Skills for Performing Higher Level Tactics

By | March 29, 2023
Background Skills for Performing Higher Level Tactics

A coach from Michigan emails to ask for help with one-against-one situations for his Pee Wee level team…

A Misuse of the Hockey Term “Checking”

By | March 9, 2023
A Misuse of the Hockey Term “Checking”

Almost every time I ask a group of young players to define the term “checking”, they will blurt out something like, “Smash ’em into the boards!” However…

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…

I Just Found These Old Hockey Game Notes

By | January 27, 2023
I Just Found These Old Hockey Game Notes

If there’s a difference between my old coaching schedule and those of most members, it’s that my high school guys started way back in June only to leave me at the American Thanksgiving, while my youngest teams were just getting underway in the early fall…

How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

By | December 30, 2022
How Pro Hockey Scouts Think

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Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 34

By | December 26, 2022
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 34

I made these recordings not long before my move to Florida. After many years of coaching high school, Juniors and college, I found it fun to be paid to coach both a Mite and a Bantam team.  Anyway, the reason the enclosed audios aren’t so great is because I was recording while driving to a…

Another Chicken or Egg Story

By | December 22, 2022
Another Chicken or Egg Story

By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my…

A Great Slot Coverage Drill

By | November 30, 2022
A Great Slot Coverage Drill

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