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  • Optimal Safety: Getting The Right Hockey Gear

    Optimal Safety: Getting The Right Hockey GearHockey offers a host of benefits, including teamwork, sportsmanship and improved physical fitness. But playing the game comes with risk: according to UPMC, the number of youth hockey injuries has doubled in the last 15 years. As noted by USA Hockey Magazine, however, hockey ranks as one of the…

  • Optimal Safety: Getting The Right Hockey Gear

    Optimal Safety: Getting The Right Hockey GearHockey offers a host of benefits, including teamwork, sportsmanship and improved physical fitness. But playing the game comes with risk: according to UPMC, the number of youth hockey injuries has doubled in the last 15 years. As noted by USA Hockey Magazine, however, hockey ranks as one of the…

  • Optimal Safety: Getting The Right Hockey Gear

    Optimal Safety: Getting The Right Hockey GearHockey offers a host of benefits, including teamwork, sportsmanship and improved physical fitness. But playing the game comes with risk: according to UPMC, the number of youth hockey injuries has doubled in the last 15 years. As noted by USA Hockey Magazine, however, hockey ranks as one of the…

  • The Final Whistle

    Last week was the last official practice I held for a team that was 4 years in the making.  It was sad standing at the door of the rink moments before my team went on.  I was set to prepare them for the biggest game of their young lives, Game…

  • This Game We Coach and Play

    There is a passion amongst hockey players unlike any other I’ve ever seen or played.  It’s different.  It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t played it or been around it. As much as we want to tell the kids go out and play for fun, it’s s…

  • The 3 Areas of Hockey Dominance

    Improve your Physical Skills, Mental Skills, and Physical Conditioning to Dominate your Opponent! In this post I’m going to discuss what I call the 3 AREAS OF HOCKEY DOMINANCE… now I know that title sounds a little dramatic, but the reality is, if you implement the information I’m about to share with you into your…

  • Goal Celebrations: Please make it stop

    I’ve been coaching and watching a lot of youth hockey lately and it’s killing me to watch these kids celebrate.  It’s a TEAM game.   For the love of all things that are right in this world, please celebrate with your team and don’t ma…

  • 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…

  • QuickStickz Review

    QuickStickz is a Fun and Effective way to Develop Stickhandling Ability I’ve been really excited to get this post out, and let you know about a cool product called QuickStickz. QuickStickz is an innovative new way to work on your stickhandling abilities off the ice, and it’s a lot of fun too! A few months…

  • Parents: How To Get Involved

    Parents: How To Get Involved

    Parents: How to get involved By Bettina Young Prochnow Oct 31, 2001, 15:33   Steve Malley, left, with Bowie hockey club team. Ladies and Gentlemen—start your hockey-mobiles! Now that the season’s underway, the No.1 concern shared by parents all across the country is figuring out what’s best for your hockey player. And the best way…