Hockey Player Magazine

Category: Hockey Blogs

  • How to Perform Backwards Crossovers – Step by Step Instruction

    We asked the fans of our hockey page on Facebook what skating skill they needed the most help with and most of them asked for help with the backwards crossovers. The backwards crossover can be a tricky skill to learn, especially when someone tries to explain it to you, or even show you everything all at…

  • Goalie Shot Chart

    An interesting thread was brought up on LinkedIn about keeping stats during games.  The topic of Goalies came up and a great resource was shared for keeping track of stats for Goalies.   I’ve always kept player stats (which I will be a p…

  • Shoot the lane and Breakout

    Drill: On whistle F2 passes puck to D2. F1 breaks to the slot and looks for a pass from D2.  After shot F1 cut thru middle and looks for outlet pads from behind the net from D2.  After F2 skates by D1 follows in a puck support role.  D2…

  • Dangle Glove Hockey Stickhandling Aid

    The Dangle Glove Encourages Proper Stickhandling Technique by Forcing Players to Use their Top Hand Every once in a while, a product comes along that just “makes sense.” The Dangle Glove is one of them. This special glove helps to “force” players to use proper technique while stickhandling. Dangle Glove Overview: I’m sure at some…

  • 2-1-2 Spread: In Action

    How to Execute a Proper 2-1-2 Spread Forecheck In our last post, we talked about beating a 2-1-2 with a D to D pass. In the footage, we saw the NJ Devils using an aggressive 2-1-2 “Stack” against the Rangers. In this post, we’ll show you the LA Kings using another variation of the 2-1-2,…

  • IHD Newsletter – September 2012

    This months newsletter has been sent.  You can read the September 2012 Newsletter here. Related articles: Newsletter sign-up

  • Kids are Robots. Drills to get them thinking.

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  • Recycle Drill

    Drill: Players start at opposite corners with a puck P1 leaves and skates in and shoots on goal and then turns and skates back toward blue line P2 leaves on the shot and carries the puck up P2 hits P1 with a pass just outside the blue line P1 then…

  • Product Review: Verbero Pucks

    Recently the owner of Verbero Sports donated some pucks for an Ironman Tournament for an organization I help run.  So I decided to try them out myself and see what they were all about.First I took them to a Summer work out and dropped one on the d…

  • University of Denver Pioneers Transition Drills

    Here are a few transition drills from head coach George Gwozdecky of the University of Denver. These drills add to the growing library of drills given to us from Division 1 head coaches. Hope they can bring some benefit to your team. Transition Drill #1 Transition Drill #2 (3 Passes) Transition Regroup 5 on 0…