Hockey Player Magazine

Category: Hockey Blogs

  • Cold A Long Time by John Leake

    There was a time when Duncan MacPherson was a promising young NHL defense prospect. The New York Islanders drafted the Saskatoon stand out in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1984.Injuries decimated MacPherson’s career almost before it started…

  • Skating Camp for Older Defenseman

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  • Double Bank Pass Drill

    Double Bank Pass is Great, High-Tempo Passing Drill The Double Bank Pass Drill is quick paced, and a lot of fun. This is one you should definitely try out on the ice, as the diagram doesn’t always do it justice (at least it didn’t for me!). Here’s the diagram: Double Bank Pass Drill: 1. 4…

  • Behind The Moves: NHL GMs Tell How Winners Are Built

    Every hockey fan has two dreams right from childhood.One is obvious – to be the scoring star who scores the big goal to win the Stanley Cup. Who would not want to be Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux or Sidney Crosby?The other is to be the team’s general ma…

  • 2011 Hockey Books

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  • How to Gain On-Ice Speed with Off-Ice Training

    By Jarod Palmer, Minnesota Wild Player Note: HUGE thanks to Jarod for writing this article for How To Hockey. This article is a detailed account of how he got his speed up to NHL standards. If you want to say thanks you can tweet this article and mention him https://twitter.com/#!/palmfisher I have always been a…

  • Star Spangled Hockey by Kevin Allen

    Kevin Allen is back with another flag waving, patriotic book about hockey in America: Star-Spangled HockeyBuy The Book: Amazon.ca – Chapters – Amazon.comHere’s more from Triumph Books:In Star-Spangled Hockey, legendary hockey writer Kevin Allen takes r…

  • Millersville Advances to League Championship

    I try not to use this space to promote personal issues, but tonight my son scored 4 goals, the last one in OT to beat Rutgers university and advance to the league championship tomorrow. I’m one very proud dad right now.  

  • My New Hockey Training Set-up

    Here’s a Quick Tour of my Basement Hockey Training Center! You may have already heard… but we recently moved houses (literally across the street, actually!). We’ve got two crazy boys, and a third boy on the way, and it was just time to expand. Lucky for us, a bigger house across the street went up…

  • How to perfect the one-timer

    The one-timer is a great shot if you can do it properly, it is also a great way to embarrass yourself on the ice if you don’t know how to do it properly. There is nothing worse than completely missing the puck, or sending a muffin towards the net that the goalie easily gloves. In…