Category On-Ice Performance

How To Play With Weaker Players

[ posted by Kim on 13th of October, 2008 ]

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving! I’ll save all the talk about nutrition for “Tasty Tuesday” tomorrow while I am recovering from too much turkey and stick with the “Mental Monday” theme for today since I got a great question from one of my players the other day that I really had to share: “How do I play […]

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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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