Hockey Player Magazine

Category: General

  • A Scorer’s Guide

    A scorer’s guide By Wayne Anderson Nov 5, 2001, 20:00   With the ever-increasing focus in roller hockey being on offense, more young players are looking to their coaches and parents to provide them with the all important offensive skills that make great goal scorers. In this month’s column I’ll try to give you a…

  • Teaching One-Handed Puck Control

    Teaching One-Handed Puck Control

    Teaching one-handed puck control By Fred Pletsch Nov 5, 2001, 19:58 Fred Pletsch Conventional hockey wisdom teaches young puck-chasers to always have two hands on your stick. But watch an NHL player on a breakaway or Mario Lemieux making another defenseman look like a neon orange pylon and you realize there are situations where having…

  • Be Active in the Off-Season

    Be active in the off-season By Mitch Korn Nov 5, 2001, 19:55   So it’s the “off-season,” you are out of school, and there is not a lot of ice time available. What should you be doing? First, I’ll tell you what you should not be doing. You are a hockey player, and athlete, and…

  • The Tretiak clinic

    The Tretiak clinic By James Baxter Nov 5, 2001, 19:40   Tretiak On What It Takes to be a Goalie A goalie must be (well) above average in all of these areas: • Coordination of movement, fluidity • Concentration • Thinking, clarity and quickness of thought • Agility, quick up and down A goalie must also be thick-skinned, a…

  • Inside the Trap

    Inside the Trap

    Inside the trap By Bob Cunngingham Nov 5, 2001, 19:24   Lemaire’s goal: Frustrate them. ©BBS Some have called it the best coaching job in two decades. Others simply say that good strategy plus execution equals success. Regardless of how or why, the New Jersey Devils were quite a story after capturing the first Stanley…

  • Flashback: Quebec Becomes Colorado

    Flashback: Quebec Becomes Colorado

    Flashback: Quebec becomes Colorado By Sam Laskaris Nov 5, 2001, 19:19   Following a 13-year absence, the National Hockey League has returned to Denver. But the franchise, dubbed the Colorado Avalanche, is not expected to have many growing pains. That’s because the Avalanche is not an expansion entry but the Quebec Nordiques organization, which relocated…

  • Keith Gretzky: He Knows He Has What It Takes

    Keith Gretzky: He knows he has what it takes By David Terentieff Nov 5, 2000, 19:04   Item: Keith Gretzky has been drafted in the first round by the Calgary Rad’z of Roller Hockey International (RHI). Gretzky is the younger brother of Wayne Gretzky, AKA “The Great One,” who won four Stanley Cups with the…

  • Being Seen

    Being seen By Bettina Prochnow Nov 5, 2001, 16:03   Let’s say “A” equals the road to the NHL, which is paved with NCAA Division I, II and III colleges, universities, and one or two Russian or Canadian connections. If “B” is the avenue dotted with prep schools that short-step you to the NCAA Division…

  • I Hate That!

    I hate that! By Bill Ferguson Nov 5, 2001, 07:58   © Breck Wilson We recently asked Hockey Player’s raving, roving reporter to run down some of the things about the game that get under his skin. What follows, depending on your point of view, is either an insightful look at the state of hockey today, or…

  • Face-Off Specialists: Always on the Spot

    Face-Off Specialists: Always on the Spot

    Face-off specialists: Always on the spot By Bob Cunningham Nov 5, 2001, 07:53   Randy Gilhen: Specialist at work. ©**ß In many cases, an NHL team’s biggest star is also its top faceoff man. In crunch time—late in the third period of a close game, or in overtime—guys like Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Doug Gilmour…