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How to Improve Stickhandling at Home

Now is the perfect time to get better. It is a perfect time to train and develop your skills. It is the perfect time to become a Sniper in Training. You might not be able to get on the ice as much as you want or at all right now but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be working on your skills all the time. Here is how you can train at home so you are a better dangler next time you step on the ice. Read more

The Best Hockey Synthetic Ice Tiles

Even in the best of times, you just cannot always be at the rink and on the ice. If you really want to train like a pro when you are at home, the best investment you can make is in Snipers Edge Hockey synthetic ice tiles. These tiles are an interlocking flooring system made from a proprietary high-density polyethylene material that is self-lubricated and designed to be skated on using your regular skates.  Read more

The Best Hockey Training Packages

Right now, circumstances have led to people having to spend a lot more time at home. The old normal of hockey games, practices, and gym training has been transformed into the new normal of self-isolation. This means no playing with your teammates, getting in-person instruction from your coach or training on professional equipment at the rink or a gym.  Read more

The Tips to an Effective Wrist Shot

There are so many important skills in the game of hockey. Being able to improve and eventually master skating, stickhandling, and passing is incredibly important. But, let’s be honest. There is nothing that is quite as rewarding or quite as fun as ripping a shot on the net! Because of this, one of the questions we get asked most at Snipers Edge is how to better shoot the puck. Read more

The Breakaway Shot – Master it

The puck squirts out into open ice. You are the first one to it. You take off. When you look up, there only clean ice between you and the goalie. You, my friend, are now on the breakaway! One of the most exciting plays in hockey, the breakaway is thrilling, exciting, and more than a little bit nerve-wracking. When nothing is between you and the hockey goal, it is all on your shoulders to either score or be stoned by the keeper.  Read more

Improve Your Passing Skills

Everyone wants to be the one to put the puck in the back of the net but, truth be told, the type of player that every great player wants to play with is a great passer. Being able to thread a long, cross-ice pass through the defense or perfectly set up a quick one-timer are skills that will get you far in the game of hockey.   Read more

New Year, New Decade, New You!

New Year's is a time to both look back at the years past and forward to the years ahead. The end of a decade and the beginning of a new one makes it an even better time to do so. The 2010s have been an amazing decade for hockey. The decade ahead is filled with promise too. A 32nd team will join the bunch with the Seattle team joining in 2021. Young guns like Auston Matthews, Jack Eichel, Brock Boeser and Nathan MacKinnon will try and place their names among the biggest stars. And, every team will start fresh and try to add their names to the Cup in the 2020s. Read more

Slick Tiles - What are the benefits?

The best way to get better as a hockey player is to train. When you are on the ice, it is easy to work on all the skating and stick skills you need to develop your game. Just because practice ends though, does not mean you have to stop working on the skills that will make you unstoppable on the ice. The best way to do this is to replicate real rink conditions as closely as you can while doing off-ice training. There are two main ways to do this.   Read more

Slick Tiles - What are the benefits?

When you talk to the best players at every level of hockey, they will tell you the same thing. Whether it is a top player from youth hockey, high school, college, juniors, the minors or the NHL, you will hear the same thing. This is that their training does not stop when they step off the ice and take off their skates. At all these levels, one of the best ways to train on dry land is through Hockey Slick Tiles.  Read more