COACHES: When most people talk about tracks or backchecks, it's about skating back hard into the defensive zone. But how we should be talking about them is starting in the offensive zone. If you want to be a team that's hard to play against, teach and preach tracking from the

The Florida Panthers announced this morning they've signed Portland Winterhawks forward Josh Davies to an entry-level contract!

Drop-out Zones in Sport: A common problem that sports face all over the world is what we call athlete dropout, where athletes, for some unexplained reason, just drop out of sport, maybe forever. There are three very clear time periods where athlete dropouts are the highest, and

Top 5 Sporting Talent Lessons for #Coaches and #Parents: 1. Early rise - early fall: super star kids rarely and I mean winning the lottery odds type rarely - make it to the top as senior #athletes. 2. Real talent is harder to HIDE than it is to FIND. #talent I.D. programs are

This is incredible from Sidney Crosby. 👏

Nick Saban walked up to the interview podium after practice one day. “Okay, y’all ready for a lecture?” he asked. What followed was a powerful lesson on entitlement and doing your best. Saban on the Importance of Nothing: “Let’s talk about the importance of nothing. You get

Meet the nominees. Carter Wilkie is a forward at RIT! @ritathletics Vote daily for your favorite Hobey Baker candidate by heading to rpb.li/8elDyL

I just got off the phone with one of the best hockey directors in the North America. Just does things the right way and really cares about the kids and families in his and other organizations. Their teams are always ranked at the top of the country on MYHockey Rankings at the

I recently posted this question: If you could build a youth hockey program from scratch today, how would you do it? And I got a lot of great replies. But with Twitter there is no orderly way to follow threads, so I’m posting a summary of responses. 👀 There are some surprises.

🏆 Female U18 CHAMPS 🏆 The Thompson-Okanagan Lakers are the BCEHL Female U18 AAA Champions!! Congratulations to the Fraser Valley Rush on a great game and their second-place finish! #bcehl #bcehlaaahockey #aaahockey

For more than two decades, Braden Robertson has given time and money to girls' hockey in Vernon. Depuis plus de 20 ans, Braden Robertson donne temps et argent pour le hockey féminin à Vernon. #NVW2024 | #SAB2024 | #EssoCup | #CoupeEsso | Thompson Okanagan Lakers U18 Female AAA

“Flintstones vitamins” is a metaphor that I've heard Roger Grillo with USA Hockey use all the time, and it's something that we as coaches in youth hockey should try to use as we are drawing up our practice plans. What do Flintstones vitamins represent? They represent candy.

Hockey Coaches: I love starting my practices with a small area game. It's a great way to get the kids engaged. It's a great way to get them competing. It's a great way to get the energy up when they're having a lot of fun and battling against each other. When they get into

There are so many ways to incorporate quick little transitions into your game! Lots of inside and outside c-step transition work this summer! 💥 Sequence transitions with edge work and crossovers in practice and these skills will translate more easily into practice/games. Nice

Congrats to NWCAA U18 AAA Flames alumni Kitchener Rangers are lucky to have you #bestofluck ❤️🏒🥅🇨🇦

“When you worry about results like so many people in our society do, it makes it tough to ever be happy. We don’t concern ourselves with the results, we try to focus on what exactly it is we want to achieve Unbelievable effort, toughness, resiliency. If you do that, you’ll get

The Calgary Wranglers have added right-shot center Carter Wilkie to the Wranglers roster on an Amateur Tryout (ATO). The Calgary native played four seasons in the NCAA, scoring 129 points in 155 games between RIT and University of North Dakota.

We are “fired up” to have this guy joining us All roads lead to home, eh Carter

What a way to make his return home!! Wilkie pockets his first AHL goal🔥

Joe Thornton introducing the St. Thomas Stars starting lineup before Saturday night’s Spotlight Game! #GOHL #SpotlightGames Collins Clothiers 519 Sports Online TSN Ontario Hockey League