Frozen Four Coach on Talent, Patience & Development

By Enio Sacilotto | May 6, 2021 |

By Mike Doyle, Special to Minnesota Hockey, 04/27/21 Like any fish tale, most good stories grow in myth every year. And after scoring the game-winning goal against Boston College to send St. Cloud State University to this year’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh, SCSU senior Will Hammer’s hockey legend grew a bit more. The story goes that after playing three…

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SCOTTY’S 7 PASS WARM UP

By Enio Sacilotto | April 23, 2021 |

Player 1 skates with no puck, exchanges passes with player 2 (passes 1 and 2). Player 1 skates along blue and exchanges with opposite line (passes 3 and 4). Player 1 then exchanges with player 2 of the other line (passes 5 and 6). Player 1 then cuts in the middle to recieve a stretch…

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TRIANGLE PASSING DRILL

By Enio Sacilotto | March 19, 2021 |

Player 1 leaves with a puck pass to the coach (#1), gets the puck back (#2). 1 does a tight turn around 1st pylon in front of him, passes the puck to player 2 (#3). Player 1 skates across (without the puck), gets a pass from the coach (#4). Player 1 skates around the pylon…

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HOW TO CREATE AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE FOR ATHLETES AND COACHES

By Enio Sacilotto | February 26, 2021 |

By Enio Sacilotto My life mentor Jon Lee Kootnekoff told me many years ago, “An attitude of gratitude is altitude”!  It took me several years to figure out precisely what this means.  The Harvard Medical School definition of gratefulness, “With gratitude, people acknowledge the goodness in their lives … As a result, gratitude also helps…

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