Hockey Player Magazine

Category: Hockey Blogs

  • 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…

  • How to Beat a 2-1-2 Forecheck

    How to Beat a 2-1-2 Forecheck During the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, I did a video dissection of Ryan Carter’s game-winning goal against the New York Rangers. The video got quite a few hits that night, and I had a number of requests to dissect the play from the defensive point of view. People wanted…

  • Derek Sanderson: Crossing The Line

    Kevin Shea is back, this time writing the autobiography of none other than Derek Sanderson. Derek Sanderson: Crossing the Line is due out in October.Buy The Book: Amazon.ca – Chapters – Amazon.comDerek Sanderson had it all – fame, fortune and adulation…

  • The Goal That United Canada: 72 Amazing Stories

    A moment in time. It’s rare for a person to remember exactly where he or she was at a single moment in time, some four decades past. It’s rarer still for an entire nation to hold a collective memory of such a moment. This kind of hardwired retention us…

  • 1972 Summit Series on DVD

    There are several great options for 1972 Summit Series fans when it comes to DVD shopping.The best all inclusive package is ’72 Complete gift set is the second major dvd set about the 1972 Summit Series. The first, Canada’s Team of the C…

  • 2012 Hockey Books

    A look at the upcoming 2012 hockey book releases:Accidentally On PurposeAngela James: First Superstar of Women’s HockeyA Season In Time by Todd DenaultA Wild Stab For It by Dave BidiniBarry Melrose: Dropping The GlovesBattle On The HudsonBernie Parent:…

  • Selling The Dream by Ken Campbell and Jim Parcels

    It’s not a free ride to the NHL.Veteran journalist Ken Campbell and hockey industry insider Jim Parcels expose the high cost of pursuing Canada’s national dream in a new book Selling The Dream: Paying the NHL price…on and off the ice.Buy The Boo…

  • Best Seat In The House by Jamie McLennan

    Jamie McLennan offers us a back-up goalie’s hilarious behind-the-mask look at life in the NHL in his first book, The Best Seat in the House: Stories from the NHLInside the Room, on the Ice and on the Bench.Buy The Book: Amazon.ca – Chapters – Amazon.co…

  • Reflections 2012: The NHL Hockey Year In Photographs

    The NHL and NHLPA may not be able to agree to much these days, but they did get together again for their annual photo-book release Reflections 2012: The NHL Hockey Year in PhotographsBuy The Book: Amazon.ca – Chapters – Amazon.comA spectacular pictoria…

  • Battle On The Hudson

    The monumental spring 1994 face-off between the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers is recaptured in Tim Sullivan’s mesmerizing account, Battle on the Hudson: The Devils, the Rangers, and the NHL’s Greatest Series EverBuy The Book: Amazon.ca – Chapt…