THE HOCKEY COACH 14

Over the past two weeks I have written about the collection, generation and use of stats in hockey. We have moved from rudimentary...

I want to be up front in saying that I have never taken a statistics course - calculus yes, statistics no. And, I am not an expert in the...

You know how sometimes you read something somewhere and it peaks your interest? Of course, you never seem to be able to find it later...

It’s almost playoff time - a time of heightened expectations and also heightened anxiety for both players and coaches when much more is...

My weeks are always filled with hockey in one way or another. Although I am not coaching a team this season, for the first time since...

How many times have we watched sports, live or on television, when one team either is all of a sudden amazing and unstoppable or just...

I talk and write a lot about playing full speed. It is critical for individual and team success and, in my experience, it may be the most...

I have spent the bulk of this past week writing another eBook. It is always interesting how messaging and content changes as you write...

Sometimes there are very valuable lessons learned as a coach when you least expect it. This has happened to me a number of times and as...

I wrote a post a couple weeks ago entitled “Do You Have a Plan for the Last Two Minutes of the Game?” It dealt with how to run a bench...

Again last weekend I enjoyed watching a full day of the top PeeWee girl’s hockey teams in Ontario play in a tournament outside of...

Two minutes left in the game. Your team is down one goal. All of a sudden you have to start your action plan for handling the bench to...

It was always a cardinal rule of writing report cards comments to go with the “sandwich” technique. By that I mean start with something...

I had a chance to see a number of games over the past week and hanging out at a rink for a tournament also gave me the chance to see a...

Sometimes as coaches we just make the game way too complicated for our players. I have written quite a bit about the problems of...

“The Art of the Dump-in” crossed my LinkedIn feed this week. It is an article written by John Cullen who does a lot of work with hockey...

It’s been almost a year since I launched my blog and website. To say the least it has been fascinating to learn about getting my message...

A lot of great articles cross my Facebook and Twitter “desk” each day. I try to read many of them when I have a moment and I am dismayed...

Goalies always used to make me feel guilty. As a head coach I never felt like I was giving them the attention that they needed and...

There are always things that stick with you from conversations or presentations. Things that just resonate and you never really forget...