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Offensive Zone Entry: Picking the Strong Side Defender (opens the original)
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Let’s talk about a detail of the game so often missed, yet makes you an easier teammate to play with… ‘picking’ the strong-side defender (SSD).Creating Time & Space With Middle (Dot) Lane DriveYou see this situation often: a puck carrier enters the zone where the defensive team is collapsing on them. The puck carrier passes (“kicks”) the puck wide to the outside.The player who just ‘kicked the puck out’ should then drive hard to the net and stop. The modern detail is to run interference on the n
Offensive Creation: Reading Defender’s Toecaps and Feet (opens the original)
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There’s a huge difference between skating and running. Once you commit to a direction on skates, it’s much harder to change course. You notice it immediately in roller hockey.The best players know this. They’re watching your feet, especially your toe caps, to see where you’re going before you actually go there.Reading Toecaps“Quinn is looking at his toecaps… He always sets them up until the toecaps are committed. When he does that cutback, there is going to be a second delay before they can reco
Ingrown Toenails: Maintaining Your Feet for the Long Season (opens the original)
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This past season, our team lost four players to missed practices and games due to a single, preventable issue… ingrown toenails.Ingrown ToenailsIngrown simply means growing inward into the surrounding flesh or tissue instead of outward or normally.Improper trimming is where most players go wrong, as they cut the nail to fit the toe by rounding the corners. This can actually cause the problem!Rather, the proper way to cut your nails is to cut straight so the toenail corners stay visible.<a class=
Matthew Schaefer's Father's Advice To Parents (opens the original)
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Check out this clip from Matthew Schaefer’s father, Todd, about raising his children in ice hockey. You can see he was much more concerned about raising a good person than raising a good hockey player.If his kids gave a coach problems or were to miss a practice/game, they had to call the coach to explain why. Their love of the game was their leverage to ensure they were raising well-adjusted people.Hockey has so many rewards in developing the kids into great adults.“If I could say anything: Rela
How to Encourage Ice Hockey Players to Listen Better (opens the original)
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As we head into hockey season, I wanted to share some thoughts on not just what to coach, but how to coach.Today, we are going to look at simple ways to grab the attention of younger players quickly so we can get back to practice as efficiently as possible.Grabbing AttentionIf you’ve been around youth hockey, you know that it’s easy for players to be distracted. Whether it is split ice with the other end making noise, ongoing station-based activities, or simply players who can’t stop messing wit
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