The Golf Ball and the Tennis Ball

Here I will discuss two regular items that have turned into some of my most invaluable training tools. I feel that most youth hockey players (in the South Jersey area at least) are not exposed to these tools to improve stickhandling. Since the emphasis in the Atlantic District seems to be on big hits and fancy stick handling, let's take a look at taking stickhanding and adding training to make it more function than flash.

The NHL Swap Meet

For three weeks this past winter the NHL went a little crazy. There was a player realignment, the likes of which haven't been seen since... well since right after the lockout ended.But still I digress that this was very unexpected and hard to really absorb everything that happened when it went down.