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7 Ways To Improve Your Hockey Mind

Study the Game: Challenge the Status Quo to Improve Your Hockey Mind. “There is no knowledge that is not power” - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Embarking on a [...]
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Video: Hockey Pivot Skating Drill

Hockey Pivot Skating Drills incorporating the goalie are more engaging and fun for all, than plain old power skating drills. If you like this hockey pivot [...]

10 Tips: How to Protect the Puck off a Rim Pass

Today Vince, a How to Play Hockey Member watched this video on how to take a rim pass, and wondered how to then protect the puck under pressure.  I'm sitting [...]
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Hockey Skills, Skills, Skills

When Boe and I set out to create The Complete Season, our full season of practice plans for all ages,  we knew in our hearts that we were onto something [...]
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Barry Smith Interview: The best tip I learned this summer from an NHL coach

Barry Smith is a straight shooter.  He tells it like it is, whether he is teaching kids, pros, or coaches like me.  I spend my professional life teaching [...]

Hockey Plays and Strategies: A great resource

It took After 100's of hours of preparation and production.  Our online hockey coaching course, "How to Play Hockey" is servicing coaches literally around the [...]