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Unlocking the Secrets of Youth Hockey
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How to become a faster skater in 9 crucial points
Improving your skating speed for hockey requires a combination of proper technique, strength, endurance, and practice. Here are some tips that can help: Practice proper skating technique: Make...
Transparency in Youth Hockey: Where Are We Now?
I'll cut to the chase: transparency in youth hockey is on life support as far as I can tell. Opaque. As shrouded in mystery as an Agatha Christy novel....
Tryouts season and seeking alternatives: our experience
Here's the context: We didn't think Luke (second-year Peewee) was accurately placed at the end of tryouts for our current youth hockey organization. Most families engaged in this sport...
Music will soothe your pre-tryouts soul: A playlist to calm hockey parents' nerves
If I had a nervousness barometer to the DMs I've been receiving lately, it's be hitting a hot 10 on the 1-10 scale right now. Parents are nervous,...
Feeding your hockey players when always on the go
This is a struggle for most hockey families and our family is no exception. The proverbial hockey family dinner at 4 pm or at 11 pm holds true....
Love is a battlefield: marriage and the busy hockey season
A mom from the @fortheloveofhockey11 community asked me to open a discussion on how everyone's marriage is going now that most families are done with the grueling and demanding youth hockey...
March Tryouts
For thirty-something years, I've never worried about hockey tryouts. I've had to worry about school grades, relationships with friends, betrayals, getting my first job, being laid-off for the...
Tryouts season and seeking alternatives: our experience
We didn't think Luke (second-year Peewee) was accurately placed at the end of tryouts for our current youth hockey organization. Most families engaged in this sport end up in this place sooner or later. The question is: can you do anything about it.
