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  • Hockey Drills DVDs

    Hockey Drills DVDs Hockey Drills DVD from Championship Productions Breakout Drills Breakouts are necessary to create the dangerous 2-on-1 plays. Mark Carlson, the USHL’s Coach of the Year in 2004-05, covers the key breakout ingredients – quick, mov…

  • Hockey Drills DVDs

    Hockey Drills DVDs Hockey Drills DVD from Championship Productions Breakout Drills Breakouts are necessary to create the dangerous 2-on-1 plays. Mark Carlson, the USHL’s Coach of the Year in 2004-05, covers the key breakout ingredients – quick, mov…

  • Hockey Drills DVDs

    Hockey Drills DVDs Hockey Drills DVD from Championship Productions Breakout Drills Breakouts are necessary to create the dangerous 2-on-1 plays. Mark Carlson, the USHL’s Coach of the Year in 2004-05, covers the key breakout ingredients – quick, mov…

  • Defenseman Hinge Drills

    While in Pittsburgh for the America’s Showcase tournament I had the chance to speak with a number of coaches about drills and specifically how to teach the hinge play successfully to defensemen. I came away with three drills that really seem to work well. The Shot and Hinge is from Derek Schooley of Robert Morris…

  • Snapshot / Wristshot Challenge – Summer 2012

    Last summer I worked on my slapshot and ended up increasing my slapshot speed by 20 MPH. If you want some help with your slapshot you can see the basics and links to other related videos and articles on our how to take a slapshot article, but this summer I want to see how much…

  • America’s Showcase Day #5

    Sunday was a great day for the HS team from the Philadelphia area as we won the Showcase championship 5-3 over the host Pittsburgh team. The game got off to a rocky start for us when we gave up a goal just 51 seconds into the period. Pittsburgh was flying after that and really giving…

  • America’s Showcase Day #4

    Getting ready to hit the bed but wanted to let those that are interested know that we won today and will play Pittsburgh for the championship tomorrow. We beat them 3-2 in the round robin so this should be another excellent game. Spent some time having a great hockey conversation with Bill Thompson, Gregg Riddle and…

  • America’s Showcase Day #3

    Big win for our team today beating Pittsburgh 3-2. We took a 2-0 lead late into the second period but got a little complacent and Pittsburgh fought back to tie the score midway through the third. We scored with 5:02 to play and hung on for the win. This win moves us on to the…

  • America’s Showcase Day #2

    Played the team from New England and lost 5-1. Score was 2-1 until middle of the third and then two goals in the last minute when we were jumping every play to try and get a goal. The NE team was strong and fast and our boys just didn’t have the same drive and intensity…

  • America’s Showcase High School All-Star Tournament

    I am in Pittsburgh as one of the coaches for the America’s Showcase event with team Philadelphia. Our team consists of many of the top high  school junior and senior players from the eastern Pennsylvania area. Lots of college scouts in attendance. We arrived yesterday and played a team from the Mid-West area and won…