For many families, minor hockey is a 12-month a year endeavour. Despite the fact that the science tells us playing a single sport year round is detrimental to our child’s development, we feel that just to have a chance to play at a competitive level, we can’t let our kid take a couple of months [...]
Photo by Selena N. B. H. via Flickr A number of coaches advocate using a small subset of drills and practice plans throughout a season to train their players. I don't think this is the best way develop high quality players and here's how I came to that conclusion. The advocates of the [...]
As some of you may know, my son Ryan has just started playing organized hockey. He’s six years old and the kids he plays with can be anywhere from five to seven years old. Organized really only means that we have set times to play and have to pay a registration fee. Pretty much everything [...]
Photo by Teka England One of the struggles a hockey coach faces over the course of a season is maintaining the players' effort levels in practice and games from fall through spring. It's a long season but, without consistently high levels of effort, the players and team will not reach their full potential. [...]
