Category On-Ice Performance

Elite Girls’ Hockey Players Practice Three Times a Day

[ posted by Kim on 11th of October, 2008 ]

It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and I’m busy helping Team Ontario’s Under-18 teams with their final tune-up camp before they play in the National Championships in November. The teams have just one exhibition game and three on-ice practice sessions to get all of their systems and strategies in place before competing on the national […]

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The Mental Side of Injuries

[ posted by Kim on 6th of October, 2008 ]

Girls hockey players have one of the highest injury rates of all sports. And in the case of certain injuries, such as concussions, girls hockey injury rates are twice as high as boy’s hockey and three times as high as football. Which is pretty amazing considering that girls hockey doesn’t allow body checking. Usually when […]

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Hockey Parents: What Have You Learned?

[ posted by Kim on 27th of September, 2008 ]

Every parent hopes that their daughter learns something from playing girls hockey. Sure some are destined for hockey scholarships and even fewer are headed for the National Team. But most parents are simply hoping that their daughters learn that hard-work can be rewarding, how to be a team player, and learn to be respectful and […]

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