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Seven Keys to Defending a One-on-one Along the Boards, by Enio Sacilotto
When your team loses possession of the puck in a hockey game, your players must have the mentality to pressure the opponent with the puck as quickly as possible so your team can get the puck back. It is more fun to play with the puck than without! The terms we like to use are…
Read MoreKevin Bieksa’s Six-Point Formula For Building Team Culture
Kevin Bieksa spent parts of twelve seasons playing for the Vancouver Canucks organization. He is one of Vancouver’s all-time best defensemen playing 597 games and one of the team’s core leaders, being a significant part of the Canuck’s run to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. He scored a memorable goal in double overtime at…
Read More5 Tips to Be a Good Team Player
The best sports teams are made up of players who work together and are willing to make sacrifices. A team with unselfish players who support each other will perform better than a group of individuals who don’t play as a team. This is why, in addition to working on individual skills, it’s also essential to…
Read MoreChristmas Defensemen Camp – 2022
December 22 and 23, 2022, at BURNABY WINTER CLUB Playing defence on a team is a very specialized position with particular skills that coaches seldom have time to work on. Likewise, being a defenseman is one of the most challenging and demanding positions to master. You will work specific defenseman drills at this camp to…
Read MoreFIVE KEYS TO BEING AN EFFECTIVE DEFENSEMEN
By Enio Sacilotto Paying defence in today’s game is a specialized position. I recently watched the Los Angeles Kings game on TV, and during the opening, the commentators were describing the play of elite defensemen Drew Doughty. They talked about five simple keys; Doughty does an elite defenseman: 1. Make the first pass. 2. Limit…
Read MoreSanta Knows What is Good for Business
The holidays are full of tradition and are a time to gather with family and friends. But no matter if you are a parent or a child, everyone recognizes the big guy in the red suit – Santa Claus. Business can learn a lot from…
Read More3 Keys to the Wild’s Winning Ways
By Jessi Pierce, Special to Minnesota Hockey Coaches and parents are constantly stressing to their young and developing hockey players the importance of fun; the importance of teamwork; the importance of keeping a positive attitude—especially when things aren’t going your way. And while it’s easy for players to roll their eyes at the barrage of cliches,…
Read MoreLate Starters, Late Bloomers & Long Term Success
By Minnesota Hockey, 03/16/21, 1:45PM CDT When it comes to youth hockey, being late shouldn’t seal a player’s fate. That doesn’t mean it’s OK to show up after practice has already started. It means you don’t have to be skating backwards by age 7 or make a Squirt-level all-star team to have a successful and fun hockey…
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