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. […]

“If you look at all the youth programs, and how many girls teams are now involved in the sport, it’s pretty impressive,”

When your child is interested in talking about the game, try to do more listening than talking.

“You have to let them run free and have fun with it.”

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 […]

“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. […]

U.S. Women's Team ready to get the 2018 winter Olympics underway.

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 […]

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 […]

When we have an opportunity to help out a country like Ireland, it’s something that we certainly want to do It’s hard to imagine a country without any permanent ice rinks competing on the international hockey scene, but somehow Ireland manages to attract players, coaches and fans. Admiring the Irish passion for hockey despite huge […]