One of our youth hockey coaches likes to tell the kids to pick simple goals for each year: Don’t worry about the league playoffs, or Districts, or scoring 20 goals, but instead pick some simple things on which to build. Skating speed, slap shots, giving and receiving body checks, defensive positioning, thinking about [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2007
Making It By Not Making It Big
I spent half of yesterday at my first-ever USA Hockey Coaching Education Program, held in the municipal courtroom in Brick Township. For $30, and listening to several hours of speakers covering safety, sportsmanship, coaching styles, goaltending, and the Atlantic District coaching certifications, I was granted an Initiation, Level 1 USA Hockey coach’s [...]
Turning Over the Rock, Part II
Last night Bubba and I went to the Leafs-Devils game and got to enjoy life behind the goal line, deep in section 13. We’ve shared these tickets with a group of about six guys for the past four years, and the move to the Rock presented some interesting challenges. Instead of [...]
First Rock Impressions
Went to my first game at the Rock last night, and all I can say is “wow.” This is a building meant for hockey, it’s a building that is a delight in which to see a game, and to enjoy yourself between periods of the game. The Devils christened it properly [...]
The Bronx is Churning
It’s been a few days since Joe Torre’s implicit dismissal as the Yankee skipper, coming full circle with Joe Girardi’s filling the managerial jersey today. I’m still flabbergasted by this move: Torre was micro-managed from above (like he couldn’t figure out how to pitch Joba Chamberlain himself?), was given horrible resources to [...]
