THE HOCKEY COACH 14

At the beginning of the 2018-19 season, I committed to pre-plan practices and deliver all the plans and diagrams of each drill to my...

Dear Coach! Congratulations on your first hockey coaching job. It’s going to be a great 1988-89 season, and you are going to have a...

Our season ends the second weekend in March at our National championship tournament. We begin again the second Monday in September - this...

I think tomorrow is the two month mark of “living in the basement”. March 17 was the day my son and I drove up to my office and literally...

My first season of coaching was the 1988-89 season. We didn’t fair very well that year. We were last in our league but managed to win our...

I take great relief in knowing that others are often going through the same things I go through. For instance, the other day a friend of...

After the 2016 NHL draft, I wrote a post called The NHL Draft and the Reality of "Making It". The post explored the simple statistics of...

I have a love/hate relationship with hockey statistics. Now, don’t get me wrong. I can find my way around an Excel spreadsheet quite well...

Our season ended just over a month ago at our championship tournament. We were one of the lucky ones. We managed to get our championship...

I know this dates me, but when I was 12 years old, I went to see the original Star Wars movie in the theatre seven times. It was simply...

I truly enjoy receiving messages, e-mails and comments about my posts. I do my best to reply to all and often, the questions I receive...

I wanted to title this post “Things that Drive Me Nuts” but I wasn't sure that was an appropriate title. I have to say though, there are...

We ended our season on March 9th this year. It was a Saturday and we managed to win our last game 5-3 with empty-net goal - a good way to...

I want to share with you a drill we used many times this year. We call it the Yale 1v1. I like it for many reasons that I'll share with...

I've said this many times this year that in 31 years of coaching hockey, this season was the most extraordinary and rewarding season of...

My son Ben, who is grade 12, was hired this week to do some math tutoring for a young grade 8 student. He did the prep work necessary,...

Just before the first season that I coached hockey after finishing playing, the head coach I was going to work with and I traveled to...

It’s really great to connect with other coaches in the summer. We are so busy during the season that often there is no time to just chat....

Carolyn Waldo was Canada’s top synchronized swimmer through the 1980’s. She won world championships, and Olympic and Commonwealth games...

So, this is the official end of my five month hiatus. I have taken a break from writing to do what I truly love - coaching hockey. And,...