by Brandon Reich-Sweet | May 3, 2021 | Coaching, Coaching Advice, Small Area Games
If you coach, you’ve been there. You expected to have a full-ice practice and, when you show up to the rink, you find out that you’re practicing on half-ice. One of your goalies is out sick. You only have 10 of your usual 15 skaters at practice. When you...
by Brandon Reich-Sweet | Apr 27, 2021 | Coaching, Coaching Advice, Small Area Games, Warm-Ups
In my last post, I wrote about the importance of making sure that pre-game warm-ups look like the hockey game that is about to be played. Whenever you are preparing for a game, you need to keep this in mind. Let’s take this concept one step further and...
by Brandon Reich-Sweet | Apr 20, 2021 | Coaching, Coaching Advice, Small Area Games, Warm-Ups
The video above does a great job of explaining this game. Just throw some hockey tape on your players’ helmets to designate teams and you can easily make this your team’s next pre-game warm-up. If you’re looking for a great way to improve the...
by Brandon Reich-Sweet | Nov 2, 2020 | Sports Performance Training, Strength & Conditioning
When successful hockey players step in the weight room, they’re getting the sports performance equivalent of a balanced meal. By that I mean that they’re getting all of the nutrients (IE, training stimuli) they need to improve their performance on the ice. When...
by Brandon Reich-Sweet | Oct 3, 2020 | DIY, Hockey at Home, Shooting, Skill Development, Stickhandling
Getting extra training outside of team practice is important to reaching your goals. But training at home can often be repetitive, solitary and frustrating. You put in lots of hours, but don’t see that much improvement in real games. Below are 10 simple and...
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