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Hockey is one of the few team sports played on ice. Its fast-paced gameplay is filled with precise passes, blistering slapshots, and hard collisions—making hockey one of the best spectator sports. Two teams faceoff with a total of twelve players on the ice at a time, including two goalies. 

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Girls Hockey Day in Columbus Sign of a Growing Game
February 15, 2018
“If you look at all the youth programs, and how many girls teams are now involved in the sport, it’s pretty impressive,”
Five Tips for Building Confidence
February 15, 2018
Make the most of practice. Put in some extra time stickhandling and shooting off the ice if you can. Get outside for some unstructured pond hockey with friends. Confidence is built on successes, big and small. Scoring a goal, posting a shutout, or even just completing a few simple passes can help a player’s confidence. […]
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Hockey In-Season Nutrition Guidelines
February 13, 2018
Today I want to talk about how hockey athletes should be approaching their nutrition in regards to their in-season body composition management and recovery from injury. Why these two topics? Well, body composition (the ratio of lean muscle mass to fat mass) is something a lot of hockey athletes actually regress with quite a bit […]
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The Young And The Relentless of Team USA
February 13, 2018
“You have to let them run free and have fun with it.”
Car Ride Home Strategies for Parents
February 12, 2018
When your child is interested in talking about the game, try to do more listening than talking.
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Ten Hockey Quotes for Hockey Families
February 12, 2018
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Hockey’s greatest players, coaches and people offer us advice, inspiration and perspective about our favorite sport. As we march through the season, Minnesota Hockey compiled a list of 10 hockey quotes for hockey families. […]
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Tips on How to Generate More Offense
February 12, 2018
Even the best goal-scorers, if they want to have special seasons, they need to get to the hard areas, create traffic and chaos on the opponent and get rebound goals. Seth Appert is developing some of the top young talent in the country. The USA Hockey National Team Development Program’s Under-18 Team head coach shared […]
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Revved Up And Ready To Go
February 9, 2018
U.S. Women's Team ready to get the 2018 winter Olympics underway.
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High-Tempo Hockey Passing Drill
February 7, 2018
Encourage the player to have a firm bottom hand on their stick which will allow them to one-touch the puck back hard and flat. Purpose: To create a high-tempo, high-repetition passing drill with movement, timing and strong-stick passing. Coaching Points: Have two lines go at the same time. On the whistle, have the X1 player depart the […]
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Minnesota Goalie Ready for Olympic Debut
February 5, 2018
Maddie Rooney started playing hockey when she was five and switched to being a goalie during her second year of Squirts after finally convincing her dad to let her put the pads on. Maddie Rooney is the first female goaltender from Minnesota to participate in the olympics.  For the first time since 1998, when women’s […]
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