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The Hockey Resource™: Helping Hockey People Make Better Decisions

Hockey gives people thousands of decisions to make.

Which Team is right for my Player?

How should a Coach handle a difficult situation?

Should a Goalie choose more starts or a higher level?

How can a Player become more confident?

What should parents understand before spending more money on Hockey?

How should an organization support the adults responsible for developing young Players?

The Hockey Resource™ exists to help answer those questions.

We are not simply reporting Hockey news.

We are building practical Hockey resources for Players, Parents, Coaches, Goalies, Teams, organizations and Hockey families who want to understand the game and make better decisions inside it.

Hockey Has Plenty of Information. It Needs Better Answers.

A Hockey family can find enormous amounts of information online.

The problem is knowing what actually matters.

A Player may receive one opinion from a Coach, another from a private instructor, another from a parent and something completely different on social media.

Parents face decisions about Teams, tryouts, tournaments, development, playing time, Hockey schools, Junior pathways, College opportunities and costs.

Coaches are expected to develop Players, communicate with parents, manage a dressing room, organize practices and provide leadership.

Organizations must recruit and support those Coaches while creating an environment in which children can develop and enjoy the game.

Those decisions deserve more than another headline.

They deserve context.

They deserve practical explanations.

And sometimes they deserve an uncomfortable answer.

That is the role of The Hockey Resource™.

SEARCH FOR THE HOCKEY ANSWER™

One of our central goals is simple:

Take real Hockey questions and provide useful answers.

Through SEARCH FOR THE HOCKEY ANSWER™, we examine the questions Hockey people are already asking.

We look at the age of the Player.

The level of Hockey.

The Player’s role.

The available opportunities.

The development environment.

The financial realities.

And the consequences of different decisions.

Because the right answer for a U9 House League Player may be very different from the right answer for a U16 AAA Player preparing for Junior Hockey.

Context matters.

Coach Leadership™

Hockey invests considerable time teaching Coaches about the game.

We believe Coach development should go further.

Coach Leadership™ examines how Coaches communicate, teach, lead, manage conflict, support Players and create Team culture.

It also asks a larger question:

What are Hockey organizations doing to prepare and support the adults they place in charge of children?

Coach development should not end when certification is completed.

Organizations can continue helping Coaches throughout the season through mentoring, practical learning, clear policies and ongoing support.

That is why The Hockey Resource™ is developing interactive Coach Leadership learning built around realistic Hockey situations.

Choose an answer.

Understand the reason.

Apply the lesson.

Coach Joey™ and Coach Jane™

Sometimes a Hockey lesson does not need 1,500 words.

It needs one clear instruction.

Coach Joey™ 10-Second Hockey Lessons™ and Coach Jane™ 10-Second Hockey Lessons™ take practical Hockey skills and reduce them to something a young Player can remember at the rink.

One lesson.

One instruction.

One takeaway.

Coach Jane™ adds a dedicated Girls Hockey development stream while maintaining the same principle:

teach the Player standing in front of you.

The fundamentals of Hockey remain the fundamentals.

But good teaching recognizes age, experience, confidence, communication and the individual Player.

Hockey Parent Intelligence™

Parents make some of the most important decisions in a young Player’s Hockey experience.

They also make those decisions in an environment filled with emotion, expense and conflicting advice.

Hockey Parent Intelligence™ is designed to help families better understand subjects such as:

Team selection
Tryouts
Playing time
Development
Hockey schools
Coaching
Junior and College pathways
Travel Hockey
Tournament decisions
Costs
Goalie development
Communication with Coaches

Our objective is not to make decisions for families.

It is to help families ask better questions before making them.

Player Positive™

Player development involves more than skating, shooting and passing.

Confidence matters.

Effort matters.

Attitude matters.

Communication matters.

Learning how to respond to mistakes matters.

Player Positive™ helps young Players develop habits that can improve both their Hockey experience and the kind of teammate they become.

The objective is not empty encouragement.

Players still need honest feedback.

They still need standards.

They still need accountability.

Positive development means helping a Player understand what they can improve and giving them something useful to do about it.

Goalie Intelligence

Goaltending creates some of Hockey’s most difficult family decisions.

More starts or a higher level?

Better Team or better Goalie Coach?

AAA or AA?

When does size begin affecting scouting?

How important is the Coach controlling the starts?

What happens when a younger Goalie sits behind an elite older one?

Goalie Intelligence looks beyond equipment and technique to examine the development environment surrounding the position.

Because a Goalie’s opportunity is affected by much more than stopping pucks.

The Hockey Tournament Resource™

Tournament Hockey is also part of the Hockey experience.

Through The Hockey Tournament Resource™, families and Teams can discover tournaments and better understand the decisions surrounding tournament travel.

Tournament weekends involve more than the games.

Families need hotels, restaurants, transportation, equipment stores, activities and practical local information.

A tournament can also become something families remember long after the final score.