Get Your Athletes Outside This Summer
Michigan Youth Hockey’s Twitter account asked me a question this week that has been on my mind. They asked “what (are) your thoughts on...
10 Tips on Choosing and Developing your Coaching Staff
As a head coach, it is critical for you to surround yourself with good people - both on ice staff and off ice. For many teams, it’s...
Coaching Survival: Taking Control
My last two blog posts have spurred much conversation and as such, I have had a lot of random thoughts about what to write this week -...
Coaching Survival: The Car Ride Home
One of the toughest things for coaches to overcome is “the car ride home”. By that I mean the things that are said to a player outside of...
Coaching Survival: Discipline for Discipline
First, thank you to all that responded to my survey over the past month. Your answers have given me some great insight into making my...
10 Tips for Running Great Tryouts
I often joke that at the first tryout, if I line all the players up on the goal line and have a race to the other end, I can pick my team...
Hockey Stats: What Top Coaches are Looking At
Over the past two weeks I have written about the collection, generation and use of stats in hockey. We have moved from rudimentary...
More on Hockey Stats: What's a Corsi?
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Hockey Stats Made Simple
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...
Playoff Hockey: Is your team ready?
It’s almost playoff time - a time of heightened expectations and also heightened anxiety for both players and coaches when much more is...