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Hockey Acceleration Drills Make Stronger Players

Traditionally hockey players have trained through a combination of traditional weight room workouts paired with a few on-ice skating drills. Recent research, however, shows that a focus on hockey acceleration drills may be more beneficial to building better players. Successful hockey players all have a few things in common – rink sense, skills, competitiveness, poise, […]

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Can You Warm up for Hockey Games Off-Ice?

While the game of hockey is played on a sheet of ice, preparing for a big match does not always take place entirely on the rink and there are a number of off ice warm up drills that any player on the team can perform.  You can work out, alone or with a group, in […]

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Improve your Hockey Skills with Hockey Flow Drills

Professional hockey players use hockey flow drills in order to move the puck to a higher-percentage area.  Since possession in a game of ice hockey is not limited to one team or another at any time in the game, the ebb and flow of offense and defense is interchangeable and the best players are those […]

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Off Ice Foot Speed Drills for Hockey

If you have just gotten back into hockey and feel a bit sluggish or if you want to give yourself an edge over the other players, off ice foot speed drills increase your skating, stopping, and turning abilities without ever having to strap on skates.  The off-ice drills you do emphasize explosive speed in your […]

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Can Hockey Sense Be Taught? Hockey Coach Jeremy Weiss Says “Absolutely”!

Hockey sense can be somewhat difficult to define but I think most hockey coaches would state that it is your ability to anticipate the play in order to react to it, either in an offensive or defensive manner. Wayne Gretzky would probably be considered a player with a very high level of hockey sense. If […]

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