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March 6, 2017
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FOCUSING ON MOTOR SKILLS
IT’S A COACH’S job to get the most out of his or her players, and that can require a certain level of problem solving and innovation. So leave it to Joe Quinn, a former Jr. A coach, to find a solution for training methods he felt were falling behind. As advances were made in the way the game was played – specifically with a focus on speed – and equipment technology, Quinn noticed his players’ practice habits weren’t following suit. Instead, practices continued the same way they had for years: pylons, power skating, lots of space and too much time. He saw a need for change. “I just got tired of the old techniques, and I wanted more of a challenge for my players in small spaces,” Quinn said. “I had…
IRAN ON ICE
IN LATE DECEMBER, members of the Iranian national men’s team gathered in Dubai less than two months ahead of its first international hockey tournament. It was only the squad’s third training camp and the roster remained very much a work in progress. In fact, most of the players still had never even met each other. Icing a team hasn’t been easy. Some players came from the country’s inline program, but most of them are players of Iranian descent recruited from pro, semipro, collegiate and recreational leagues from across the globe. Of the 22 players that ended up making the team, only seven live in Iran, while the other 15 are from all over the world – Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and even Malaysia. Some have never been…
CHALK TALK
HALF ICE PASSING WARM UP Work on providing a good target and returning hard, quick passes with this drill > Players line up on blue line on both sides of the ice > First player in line skates backwards and one touch passes to second player in line > At bottom of circle, first player stops and skates forward still one touch passing > Player then swings into the neutral zone, and second player passes cross ice to far blue line, first player then skates into zone, gets a pass from far side and finishes with shot on net SEE A VIDEO OF THIS WORKOUT ON THE SAMSUNG DRILL HUB AT HOCKEYCANADA.CA…
GOLDEN GOALIE
THE PERSON MOST responsible for Devan Dubnyk’s resurrection regularly looks around the Xcel Energy Center and has difficulty grasping it. After all, Nathaniel Dubnyk is just three years old. His skating needs work, though it’s getting a lot better, and his favorite part of the game is watching the Zamboni. During the nadir of his career, shortly after Nathaniel was born three years ago, Dubnyk went to his son. He knew that was where he needed to be. He held his boy in his arms, looked him in the eyes and somehow knew everything was going to be all right, whether he ever played another game in the NHL or not. Dubnyk had been reduced to playing with a diminishing number of Black Aces at the Montreal Canadiens practice rink in…
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