Hockey Tough
Foreword by Mark Messier. No hockey player can reach full potential without mastering the mental side of the sport. Hockey Tough provides players and coaches proven methods for mastering the mental side of the game. Author Saul Miller shares the psychological training and emotional management techniques he has successfully taught individual hockey players and teams for over 20 years.

Throughout the book, NHL stars such as Mark Messier, Pavel Bure and Markus Naslund offer insights and tips on a variety of topics related to achieving a winning mind-set for the sport. These players explain how to focus and score, deal with personality conflicts on and off the ice and how to bounce back with confidence after a subpar performance.

52-Week Hockey Training
You can only play at your peak performance if you get in shape. The power to move quickly and the stamina for sustained hard skating requires conditioning the muscles and cardiovascular system to build strength, power, and endurance. This book takes you to that level with a year-round physical conditioning plan specifically for hockey.

A day-by-day conditioning program to get your team in shape for more powerful skating and shooting. A complete schedule for hockey fitness. The book is coauthored by an exercise physiologist and a former professional ice hockey player with more than 25 years of coaching experience—including stints with the NHL Red Wings, Oilers, and Senators. 52-Week Hockey Training teaches the essential components of fitness as they relate to hockey performance.

Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving
In hockey, the team that has mastered skillful puck movement usually comes out on top. Whether you’re attacking the goal or manoeuvring out of a compromising situation near the opponent’s goal, sharp passing and receiving skills are vital weapons that can consistently carry your team to victory. This book provides all the expert instruction you need to get your team passing and receiving the puck like a well-oiled machine.

Includes 75 drills, many of which can be applied to both in-line and ice hockey. Backed by the sport’s premier provider of coach and player instruction, Huron Hockey, Hockey Drills for Passing & Receiving teaches how to develop individual skills and use them within a team concept. In addition to improving puck movement in the offensive zone, the drills also focus on the all-important transition game.

Coaching Youth Hockey
This new edition of Coaching Youth Hockey is part of the improved generation of the American Sport Education Program’s (ASEP) Coaching Youth Sports series. This widely respected and highly popular series is the best collection of youth sport-specific guides, which are grounded in positive coaching principles.

ASEP, the nation’s number one coaching education program, developed Coaching Youth Hockey to provide coaches with both an explanation of their role and concrete instructions on how to fulfil that role. You will find chapters on communicating with your athletes and their parents, teaching and developing hockey skills, planning and conducting practices, and coaching during games. This second edition includes a special chapter on the games approach to coaching hockey, which makes practice more fun for the kids and teaching more effective for you, the coach.

Coaching Hockey Successfully
There’s a lot more to coaching hockey than teaching players how to shoot a puck. You have to train them to execute advanced skills and tactics, evaluate their technique, and give them exercises and drills to hone their skills. Additionally, you have to organize your team, select equipment, motivate your players, plan practices, and pull everything together for competitive play.

Coaching Hockey Successfully makes all these tasks much easier by guiding you through every aspect of the coach’s role giving you a blueprint for establishing a successful program. It’s an all-encompassing manual for beginning coaches and a thorough reference for more experienced coaches. You'll find helpful information on special teams, bench coaching, scouting, and program analysis, plus sample practice plans to guide you through the season.