Hockey Player Magazine

Category: Hockey Blogs

  • Product Review: Green Biscuit

    As an Inline coach, I’ve noticed working out outside the rink can be difficult to do at times.  Most notably, working with an inline puck on the driveway, street or asphalt court can be hard because the puck doesn’t want to stay flat.  While …

  • Hockey Book Shortage in New York City

    From Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun:Walked in to a giant Barnes and Noble book store in Manhattan Saturday, where there were 12 large shelves just for sports books. Looked hard but couldn’t find a single hockey book in the bunch

  • Take a Hockey Vacation to Sweden / Denmark

    Have you ever dreamed of playing hockey overseas? Most kids who grew up with hockey have, I know I did so when I saw an opportunity to play hockey in Iceland I took it. In May 2012 I traveled to Iceland with the Canadian Moose and I had the time of my life! I had…

  • Design a Team / Coaches Room

    I’ve been asked to help design a room at the rink where I coach that will be used by the coaches to view game video and provide an area where we can do “chalk talk” sessions with our teams. I thought I would put this out to the group who follow this site and see…

  • See To Play: The Eyes Of Elite Athletes

    Discover Your Elite Athlete EyesAs kids, many of us dreamed of being a pro athlete. We played out those dreams in backyards, school yards and outdoor skating rinks. The problem becomes, we don’t have the elite skill set to make these dreams come tr…

  • Paul Henderson: The Goal Of My Life

    Canadian hockey hero Paul Henderson is releasing his memoir. Written with Roger Lajoie, Henderson’s book is cleverly titled Paul Henderson: The Goal of My Life.Buy The Book – Amazon.ca – Chapters – Amazon.comPlenty has been written about and even by Pa…

  • Tales From The Locker Room: Leafs, Habs, Hawks

    Sports Publishing LLC always put out new releases in their series Tales From The Locker Room.I’ve never been a huge fan of the series, but if you are a fan of a particular team the books are worth taking a look at. New for hockey fans in 2012 are:…

  • This Sweater Is For You

    One of the most beloved stories of all time—The Hockey Sweater—is celebrated in this heartfelt recollection. Reflecting on the original short story and mortifying real-life moment that started it all, This Sweater Is for You!relates how the re…

  • Hockey Smut

    Apparently there is a whole new genre of hockey books for 2012: Hockey Smut.Yes, the rushed world of romance/smut novels is crossing over to the hockey world, hoping to score (pun intended) with titles like Taking a Shot by Jaci Burton, One Man Rush an…

  • Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels

    Michael Buma offers us the academic release: Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey NovelsHockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testoster…