Hockey IQ Newsletter 2024 Recap

Looking back at 2024’s best posts

Each year, we will recap all of our pieces from the prior year so you can easily access them:

• 2020 + 2021 + 2022 + 2023

As these posts are intended to be evergreen, this is a great piece to bookmark and come back to over time. We have the full list of articles broken down by month below. As always, thanks for reading and following along!

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Enjoy exploring our full-year list!

January

• How to Improve Ice Hockey Skating Development

• How Players Can Build Real Team Chemistry

• Predicting Future Top Level Performance: What is Relative Age Effect? What Correlates to Future Success? (Supporter)

• Accelerating Into Puck Receptions: Raising The Pace Of Play with Nathan MacKinnon

• Art of Coaching: The Coffee Game

February

• The Art of The Fake Shot with Mika Zibanjad

• How to Increase Shootout Success: Discussing The Best Shootout Routes

• You Need to Have Adversity In Your Life (Supporter)

• Improving Athletic Performance by Building Mental Maps

• Stop The Slide, Part #2

March

• Rush Offense: Finding The 2v1 To Generate More Offense

• Where Should Your Hockey Player Play Next Season?

• The Making of an Elite Skater: How Oliver Moore Slowed Down to Speed Up

• How Kaoru Mitoma's Research Led Him to High-Level Success (Supporter)

• Ice Hockey Pick Plays

• The 2 Big Differences Between High & Low Level Hockey

April

• Defending 101: Just Because You Are Standing Next to Someone, Doesn't Mean You Are Guarding Them

• How to Win More Faceoffs, With Columbus Blue Jackets Captain Boone Jenner

• How the US Navy Blue Angels Prepare for and Debrief Their Flight Shows (Supporter)

• Body Orientation For Hockey

• Coaches Want More Than Just Problem Solvers

May

• Rush Offense: Creating Offense via the Overlap

• How the University of Michigan is Revolutionizing Neutral Zone Transition

• What Does Winning Look Like?

• An Inside Looks at Real Sociedad & Athletic Bilbao’s Youth Soccer Academies (Supporter)

• Player & Coach Development: Don’t Let Early Success Ruin Your Future

June

• Calculating Danger: Developing Defensemen with Coach Matt Deschamps

• Bill Walton's Memory of John Wooden's Life Teachings

• How Alcohol & Screens Affect Your Body’s Recovery (Supporter)

• Safe Lifting For Ice Hockey Players

• You Become What You Are Surrounded By, Featuring Macklin Celebrini

• Resources to Understand The 2024 NHL Draft-Eligible Players

• Puck Protection: How to Protect the Puck When Skating Through Contact

July

• Analyzing NHL Development Camps

• Offensive Hockey: Finding Creative Ways to Improve Vision

• How to Be Miserable & What Leads to a Happy Life

• Drill Ideas for Ice Hockey Practices (Supporter)

• What is the Proper Ice Hockey Stick Length?

August

• Differentiating Between a Bad, Average, and Good Hockey Player

• A New Era For NHL Defensemen? A Deep Dive On 5'9" Defender Lane Hutson

• Learning From Legendary Soccer Manager Jurgen Klopp (Supporter)

• How Prepared is Seamus Casey for Professional Hockey?

• How To Improve Your Ice Hockey Coaching Skills and Abilities

September

• Using the Kinetic Chain to Improve Your Skating

• What Hockey Habits and Indicators Correlate to Future Success?

• The Difference Between Being Puck-Focused vs. Body-Focused

• How Different is European and North American Hockey?

• How To Score More Goals: Go Where The Goals Are Scored, But Tactfully

October

• Defensemen Development: Keeping Clean Feet

• Defensemen Development: Building & Maintaining Defensive Posture

• The NHL's Newest Power Play Breakout Wrinkle... 3rd Man Slingshot

• Iron Sharpens Iron: How to Approach & Appreciate Practice

November

• Why Yelling From the Bench or Stands Hurts Player Development

• How Skating Guru Jill Plandowski Develops Great Skaters

• Ray Lewis's Recipe For Leadership & Excellence (Supporter)

• How the Concept of 'Zoo Tiger vs. Jungle Tiger' Applies To Practice Planning

• Enhancing Change of Direction Efficiency: Tackling a Key Transition Skating Challenge

December

• How to Approach Bench Management as an Ice Hockey Player

• The Importance of Sharing the Language of Hockey

• How to Stop Puck Watching

• Lessons From the Quinnipiac University Ice Hockey Program (Supporter)

• Coaching Lessons From Nick Saban

• Inside Michigan Men's Ice Hockey (Supporter)

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