Most long time hockey friends know I have a chatbot named “Professor Bee” manning this website — around the clock and 24/7.
In the modern day game of hockey, coaches often refer to team play as “Six on the attack, six in defense of our net!”
Now, from this old coach’s perspective, new drill ideas frequently come about because there’s a problem. Said yet another way, a new drill can be created to solve a difficulty one of our players — or most of our team — is experiencing…
It’s been several years now, since one of my Team NEHI assistants described something he’d seen on a newscast. I guess the sports segment showed some clips of our local NHL hockey team, and then it highlighted the team’s new coach…
This drill needs at least 7 players for flow at one end of the ice, from the hash marks to the boards…
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…
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…
For years I have wondered what part innate talent plays in the success of athletes. Growing up aspiring to be a pro athlete I thought on many occasions, “I wish I were talented enough to be as good as others…”
If your son, daughter or team is at the stage where they need to learn hockey’s basic rules and positioning, this is the video for them…
I don’t doubt member coaches, parents and older players will find a few things that’ll also help them (sorta like some food for thought)…