Get your Hockey Team Dialed In and Focused!
Lack of focus on a hockey team can be a big problem for coaches. It happens at all ages and skill levels too—-it’s not just the younger ones that fool around and chit-chat! As a coach, you want your team…
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Hockey Coaches – Help Your Team Bounce Back from a Loss
As a minor hockey coach, you just want the best for your team. You want them to have a fun, exciting season, and make friends with their teammates along the way. You want them to learn a lot from you…
Anatomy of the most anticipated goal in recent Canadiens history
Article written By Marc Antoine Godin Oct 18, 2019 from the Athletic.com No player in the Canadiens’ historical annals had endured a longer wait to score his first NHL goal. In his 127th career game, Victor Mete decided the joke…
Effective Communication for Team Success
Imagine taking part in a team sport without any communication whatsoever. No direction from the coaches, no talking amongst players, and no game plan whatsoever. That’s a recipe for disaster, and hockey is no exception. The greatest hockey teams have…
Preparing for a Successful Hockey Practice
There are two main factors that contribute to the success of a hockey team. The first is the players. Each player on the team needs to be focused, dedicated, and willing to do what it takes to bring home wins….
5 Habits of a Successful Minor Hockey Coach
People decide to become hockey coaches for a variety of reasons. Some are fresh out of a playing career and want to stay immersed in the sport. Some are parents who want to become more involved in their child’s hobby….
Meet Hockey Instructor Grant Holliday
Tim Turk Hockey senior instructor Grant Holliday was born in 1990 in Toronto, Ontario. Grant boasts an impressive and strong educational background for hockey, as well as professional playing experience. For his post-secondary education, Grant attended Queens University in Kingston,…
5 Important Life Skills You Learn from Playing Hockey
Hockey is a wonderful sport. First, it makes fantastic use of winter, an otherwise bleak and cold season. It gives people from all walks of life the chance to experience the excitement and thrill of victory, and the motivation of…
5 Skills Hockey Scouts Look For
It’s every hockey player’s dream: a stranger approaches you and introduces themselves as a scout. They tell you they’ve been keeping an eye on your performance and admit that they like your prowess and potential. They finish by offering you…
Minor Hockey Coaches – 5 Best Practices When Cutting Players
Youth hockey tryouts are an exciting, competitive, and sometimes stressful time of year. This is true not only for the children participating, but often even more so for the coaches who are teaching, evaluating, and, regrettably, making cuts at the…
