Archive for the ‘Beginning Hockey’ Category
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I watch my In the Crease
My favorite part is when the Coach Mike Lewis is motivating the California Wave players in the locker room. “From the drop, to the stop, do not quit! Get it in your hearts, get it in your minds, from this day forward guys we roll!”
I played Sunday’s game at Polar Ice Gilbert, against the Tucson Stampede Squirt B team with this quote stuck in my head. It worked out really well for me. I had a total of 4 points with 2 goals and 2 assists. One of our centers was sick and I played every other shift; I was really in the game, I set up plays, made passes and had a handful of shots on goal. I was motivated!!
My Coach told us after that game that it was the first time in the Sonoran Youth Hockey League that a Mite Team had beaten a Squirt Team. Pretty Impressive for a bunch of Mite A Players. The final score was 7-4.
Some Highlights from the game:
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Listen to the NHL San Jose Sharks Skating & Skills Coach Graeme Townshend explain the importance of working on skating skills when you are young. Graeme says “skating is to hockey as putting is to golf”. Tiger Woods spends time perfecting his putt; hockey players need to take time perfecting the art of skating!
In a nutshell; this Coach sums up the importance of not neglecting your skating skills! I attend a couple of power skating sessions a week. I can tell you from my experience that power skating class, in addition to your regular team practices, really does pay off.
Welcome
to my Blog! My Dad helped me put together a short biography about myself here. I started this blog with the help of my Mom and Dad, because I wanted a place to share my passion for the greatest game in the world … HOCKEY!
My Mom and Dad thought it would be a good idea to start the blog too, so that players just starting out could learn about what it takes to play youth hockey.
I started out in hockey when I was just three years old. It was a “Kids First Hockey” program hosted by the Phoenix Coyotes at my local Ice Rink and sponsored by Bauer/Nike. The program was one day a week, for one hour. The great thing was, the program was free and included all hockey gear/bag and each player received a free “Kids First Hockey” jersey.
The first night in full hockey gear was pretty tough. I had to lean on a skating bucket most of the night, so I didn’t fall down. I hated falling down, because I couldn’t get up without help. But before long I was moving around pretty good, and eventually chasing the pucks they brought onto the ice.
That is all it took! I was hooked! Chasing pucks!
Shortly after that class; my Mom and Dad purchased my used hockey equipment at Play it Again Sports. I also got my new skates and a stick at a local hockey equipment store, Behind the Mask in Arizona.
By the time I was four and a half years old I was taking a weekly power skating class and had been working my way through Hockey Concepts 1, 2 and 3. I did each one a couple of times to insure I mastered them before moving onto the next.
In early 2005, I joined the Mini-Mites and by the Fall 2005 at the age of five; I was playing Mite half ice, while I continued to take power skating classes once a week without fail.
