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12 Defensive Tips 12 Defensive Tips

Defense and goaltending typically wins championships. It’s interesting how year after year the Stanley Cup–winning team typically has the fewest goals... 

Improve Your Stickhandling with the Green Biscuit Improve Your Stickhandling with the Green Biscuit

Practicing your stickhandling is important if you want to become a better stickhandler. Hockey Shot has a number of hockey training aids that will help... 

Presto Chango with Rollerguards Presto Chango with Rollerguards

Hockey Training Tip: Quickly transform your hockey skates into inline skates with Rollerguard Rolling Skate Guards and get a little skating in anywhere,... 

Don’t Shrink Your Game: Learn from Your Mistakes Don’t Shrink Your Game: Learn from Your Mistakes

With hockey being so fast and unpredictable, it's only natural to endlessly evaluate your play. You kick yourself between shifts, your coach whispers/yells... 

Celebrate with Class During Blowouts Celebrate with Class During Blowouts

No matter what you think about teams running up the score against a significantly weaker opponent (and there’s plenty to read about that!), there’s... 

Education Reduces Stress for Parents and Athletes Education Reduces Stress for Parents and Athletes

Some parents unintentionally become a potent source of stress when they over-identify with their child’s sport performance. How might this happen? All... 

Mite Hockey = Fun! Mite Hockey = Fun!

If your child is playing hockey for the first time this season, you are probably interested in helping him or her have the best possible experience. Youth... 

The Jump Rope: An Underestimated Training Tool The Jump Rope: An Underestimated Training Tool

A tool that we like to use for training is the jump rope. It is a low cost, portable and highly effective piece of equipment. A good plastic speed rope... 

Contest

Heavy Metal Reigns for Hockey Players’ Entrance Music Heavy Metal Reigns for Hockey Players’ Entrance Music

If hockey were like baseball, players could select their own entrance music — aka, the “at-bat music.” Recently, the Colorado Avalanche asked its... 

Parenting

Discover 7 Ways to Help Build Confidence in Your Child Discover 7 Ways to Help Build Confidence in Your Child

Early on, children learn how sports-oriented the culture is around them. As the headlines frequently tell us, some parents, and even star professional... 

Coaching

How to Increase Practice Time by 10% How to Increase Practice Time by 10%

Here's a tip for coaches that will help improve practice time by at least 10%! At the beginning of the season, name each of your practice drills. The first... 

Player Development

ADM Q&A: Blue Pucks & Passing ADM Q&A: Blue Pucks & Passing

Q. My 8-year-old is playing in a summer league that uses the regular black puck rather than the lighter blue puck he’s used throughout the 8U program.... 

Nutrition and Health

Q&A: Are There Better Fueling Options Than Energy Drinks? Q&A: Are There Better Fueling Options Than Energy Drinks?

The sheer number of energy drinks on the market today is staggering. There are so many options, it might seem as though they should be an integral part... 

Youth Hockey Training

Age-Specific Training Guidelines Revealed Age-Specific Training Guidelines Revealed

In recent years sports scientists have spoken out emphatically about the harmful effects of premature and over-intense athletic training of young children.... 

Youth Sports Character

How to Help Your Player Stay Positive How to Help Your Player Stay Positive

When a child is learning a new sport it can be easy for them to become discouraged. Sometimes this can lead to negative thoughts and feelings.  The following... 

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