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The Five Characteristics of a Great Hockey Leader
If you have ever watched the NHL network nightly recap show “On the Fly,” you’ll repeatedly hear the analysts refer to players as great leaders. Often, these... |
Hockey Training Drill using a Bosu Ball
Hockey training drill focusing on balance, core strength, dribbling under pressure, and body awareness all while balancing on a Bosu Ball. |
Speed Skills - Skate Faster with These Pro Hockey Tips
As a long-time hockey skills coach, I get asked by parents all the time about how their son or daughter can increase their skating speed. I do a lot of... |
How to Take a Snapshot in Hockey
Scoring goals is something every hockey player strives for each time they are on the ice. Shooting the hockey puck can be accomplished... |
5 Ways to Improve Your Shot Accuracy
If you ask hockey players why they play hockey, they usually come back with the reply, “because it’s fun!” The part of hockey that ranks #1 in the fun factor category is... |
Ice Hockey Tips and Hockey Skills: Making a Perfect Saucer Pass
The saucer pass is a passing technique used in ice hockey where one player elevates the puck off the ice, through the air, to another player. The goal is to .... |
Words Every Hockey Player Can Live by
There will be many magical moments in your hockey career, as well as challenging ones. Here are some great quotes you can use to inspire yourself to greatness. .....
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Top 10 Tips for Hockey Tryouts
What can you do to dominate at Hockey Tryouts? These Top 10 tips are musts for doing well at your hockey tryouts. Be ready for your hockey tryouts!! .....
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Ice Hockey Tips and Hockey Skills: How to Shoot a Wrist Shot
Many times hockey players will ask our professional training staff how to shoot a puck. In this ice hockey tips blog we are going to concentrate on one of the most common and critical to learn: the wrist shot or wrister ..... |
Ice Hockey Tips and Hockey Skills: Perfecting Your One Timer
A question our training staff is often asked by players starting out is: “What is a one timer in hockey?” While this may sound like a ridiculous question, the hockey one-timer is a very exciting and effective way to score a goal and is a critical skill that should be mastered ..... |
A Goal Scorer’s Pre-Game Prep
“I am a goal scorer, and this is my pre-game prep.” Those are the words that a player said to me a few years ago when I stopped at his house to pick him up for a game later that evening. He was in his basement shooting puck after puck, already breaking a pretty good sweat. I was upstairs talking to his parents and I finally asked them what all the noise was down in the basement .... |
5 Youth Hockey Skills To Learn From Patrick Kane's Scoring Streak
Chicago Blackhawk Patrick Kane is in the midst of a very impressive scoring streak that, as of this writing, has reached 23 games. In an era when goals and assists are difficult to come by, how is it that players like Kane find their way onto the score sheet every night? Here are 5 keys that hockey players can take ..... |