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…”
I love it when hockey folks touch base with me in our ASK THE COACH section. Not only do I love talking hockey with good people, but I also love being tested or forced to problem solve…
One time my old magazine publisher asked that I do a piece on “picking a hockey camp”, So, I thought I’d try something a little different from what other writers might…
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…