“The Hockey Community” categorizes all of the “hockey happenings” in your local area.

A few weeks ago I was introduced to a new hockey site that has the potential to make a serious impact on local hockey. The main idea behind The Hockey Community is to merge all the rinks’ schedules and the drop-in hockey games on the same website. Through a very simple form you can find stick and puck, public skating, drop-in hockey game and much more.

They just rolled out all the local hockey info in the Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby and Delta areas, but they are planning to add more and more cities. I can’t wait until Salt Lake is on the list

This is actually a student’s project from an engineer school, so if you have more ideas, tell them, they might be able to include the functionality you’re looking for.

Either way… this is a great site, with a lot of potential – take a look and see what you think!!

Visit them at http://thehockeycommunity.com or join them on Facebook.

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State-of-the-Art Hockey Workout Program @ http://hockeydevelopmentsystems.com

Hockey is one of the few sports where players do little to no off-ice training, outside of what’s mandated by their respective teams… This leave a HUGE opportunity to gain an advantage over your opponent by participating in a structured hockey workout program. So… what makes for a good hockey workout program? Make sure your off-ice hockey training considers the following areas, and incorporates the correct exercises to train them properly:

1. Which energy systems are used in hockey?
2. Which muscle groups are used in hockey?
3. What key athletic movements are most important for hockey?

We have put together an off-ice summer training camp that is 100% hockey specific. As far as I know, it’s the first of its kind. It will take place over 20 weeks, starting the first week in April, and will operate just like a regular off-ice training camp, except that all of the communication will take place via the web.

Check out this new Hockey Workout, and email me if you have any questions!

Jeremy

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Remember to get on the Early Bird list at the following link: http://hockeydevelopmentsystems.com/

Talk Soon!

Jeremy

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Go to: http://hockeydevelopmentsystems.com/ to get on the “Early Bird” notification list. This will let you be one of the first to know when the program becomes available.

Also – leave your hockey training questions, concerns, comments, and suggestions in the comment section **YES, I’m serious – go ahead and do it now **

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One of my favorite hockey cycling drills

Click here for the printout.

What’s up guys! I do a monthly coaches meeting for one of our local leagues here in Utah… We decided to try this month’s meeting online instead of having everyone spend another night at the rink. I’ve had a couple of requests to see the meeting, so I figured I’d post it here. Keep in mind, some of the stuff we’re talking about is specific to our organization, but there’s still some good discussion in here.

Enjoy!

PS – I got some of my material on the small area games stuff from Coach Nielson’s recent blog posts at http://coachnielsen.wordpress.com/ He’s got a great site, with great explanations!

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A simple Attack Triangle Sequence that introduces many important concepts to young hockey players.

As always – click here for the drill printout

Enjoy!

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Hockey Small Area Games Drills can be a great way to add competition and intensity to your practices

Try using hockey small area games drills to simulate various game situations your players will encounter. This one helps to reenforce shooting and crashing the net for rebounds, as well as odd man play and battles. As always, click here for the printout.

Enjoy!

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One of my favorite Hockey Body Checking Drills to work on body positioning and angling

Remember, as you progress into hockey body checking drills, to stress that the purpose of body checking in hockey is to separate the man from the puck. To do this effectively, players need a strong base in the following areas:

1. “Raw” Skating Ability
2. Agility
3. Body Positioning (Angling, Gap Control, etc…)
4. Stick Positioning
5. Make the Hit

This video shows a simple drill to work on angling with your players. As always, click here for a printout to bring with you to the rink.

Cheers!

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Hockey Passing Drills like this one can be great tools to run high-tempo practices

I call this the Hymas Square Drill (or the Wag the Dog Drill – since Hymas is one of those players who loves to give input). Either way, this is a great, quick-paced, heads up passing drill. As always, click here for the printout.

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