Hockey Player Magazine

Category: Hockey Blogs

  • Who IS my Competition Anyways…?

    “Who is my competition anyways…?” This is the question EVERY player should ask him or herself! The purpose of this blog is to help build better teams, by providing players, coaches, and parents with useful drills, tools, and information. You often hear me talking about on-ice strategies and tactics, or off-ice drills and workouts that…

  • Sign-up for IHD’s monthly newsletter

    Starting in July, we will be publishing a monthly newsletter that will be full of our best articles, tips, drills and product reviews.  I encourage you to sign up in the form below or through the link on the right side of the page. Have a drill or article you want to share, let us…

  • Dryland Training Kits from HockeyShot (full review)

    Use these Dryland Training Kits from HockeyShot to set up Structured, Well-Organized Dryland Sessions with your Team! I recently had the opportunity to do a detailed review on HockeyShot’s Dryland Training Kits. So I took my boy Tyler down to the tennis courts to have a workout and make some videos. We had a great…

  • Pucks On The ‘Net: The eBook

    Coming in October 2011: GreatestHockeyLegends.com presents Pucks on the ‘Net, an e-book by Joe Pelletier. Foreword by Kirstie McLellan DayThis is Joe Pelletier’s third book release. He has previously released The World Cup of Hockey (co-authored with P…

  • Burkhart 2 on 2 Deflection

    Burkhart 2 on 2 Deflection My good buddy, and assistant coach, Josh Burkhart showed this one to me a couple of years ago. It’s a solid drill that has a pretty quick rotation, so not much standing around once your players pick up the flow of it. Here’s the diagram: Burkhart 2 on 2 Deflection…

  • Cheap and Easy Ideas to make Shooting Practice more fun

    As a kid I spent a lot of time in my barn shooting pucks. Sometimes I would get tired of shooting at the same four targets (or I would break the targets) so I would always try to think of ways to make target practice a bit more fun. One of my better inventions was…

  • What the OT Game 1 Winner (Kings-Devils) can teach your players

    I’ve been thinking about the Game 1 OT winner by the LA Kings in this year’s Stanley Cup Finals and wanted to write-up a few thoughts on the goal.  As a coach, you are always teaching your players and I thought  about 2 very important aspects…

  • Team Leadership

    I’ve had the pleasure of coaching some really good teams that were pretty talented over the last few years but each has fallen short for various reasons.  This year was puzzling to me as I struggled to wrap my head around the team I saw winning ga…

  • Accidentally On Purpose by Louise Waronek

    A revealing look at the issues and controversies of grassroots level hockey, including everything from children developing life skills to the thrill of playing for the love of the game to high financial obligations, the dangers of hazing rituals, “craz…

  • H is for Hockey: A NHL Alumni Alphabet

    “Where was the first organized indoor hockey game played? When did the tradition of engraving winners’ names on the Stanley Cup start? Which six brothers collectively played in more than 5,000 NHL games? Answers to these questions and many more can b…