Timely Advice

The Greatest Changes CAN Take Place FROM HERE ONWARD!

By CoachC | April 12, 2024
The Greatest Changes CAN Take Place FROM HERE ONWARD!

Although a lot of folks view hockey time as something like September to March (or April), I have to share a different — very important — slant on that…

Marking the Practice Ice

By CoachC | April 10, 2024
Marking the Practice Ice

My good friend Joe (known as “Coulter”) mentioned something in a comment some time ago that I promised to eventually address.  So, here goes…

Skate Sharpening: Trust Matters (So Avoid Big Box Stores)

By CoachC | April 6, 2024
Skate Sharpening: Trust Matters (So Avoid Big Box Stores)

When you find a great skate tech who is professionally trained, it’s difficult to try anyone else. However, when you are out-of-town…

Picking A Youth Hockey Program

By CoachC | April 4, 2024
Picking A Youth Hockey Program

A few years ago I became an adviser (or expert) with a youth sports association, primarily attempting to help hockey parents, coaches and players with their skills related training problems…

Losing Players by the Whistle?

By CoachC | March 28, 2024
Losing Players by the Whistle?

As much as I’m into improving skating and stickhandling and playing smarts, I’m frequently thinking this website wouldn’t be worth a hoot without the kind of articles that are surfacing here…

Looking Forward to Your Hockey Comments

By CoachC | March 4, 2024
Looking Forward to Your Hockey Comments

I guess it just comes with life in the world of Internet spam, when I’ve had to experiment with ways to encourage good comments from good people while discouraging not-so-nice comments from the not-so-nice spammers…

Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

By CoachC | March 1, 2024
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48

Please allow Michael to re-introduce the changes to our monthly Hockey Secrets Podcast, plus another new one. I know you’ll like it…

How to REALLY Tie Hockey Skates

By CoachC | February 24, 2024
How to REALLY Tie Hockey Skates

A member recently mentioned his bout with “lace bite”, which caused me to put the following together — for him and for all my other CoachChic.com friends…

Coming… March 2024

By CoachC | February 20, 2024
Coming… March 2024

Know that I create this page as a courtesy to members and potential members, giving them a sense of what’s “coming” within this month…

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…