Elegant Displays of Smashing Sticks on Dressing Room Walls I don’t know if its done because coaches have odd ways of thinking they can motivate players or try to exercise a degree of control, but we’ve all seen it. The head games most often end in elegant displays of a…

Information collected by HockeyCenter.com Check out their College Hockey Guide by Thomas Keegan. Of the 3,731 players on NCAA roster for 2006/07 at total of 2,960 (about 80%) were recruited from just ten leagues or levels. So before you head down the NCAA road, minor hockey players should be looking to make a…

The Stakes Went Up I’m an ’84 (28 years old). In the course of my minor, junior and college career hockey went from a pastime to a business, from wood sticks to one pieces, from drinking beer in the room to riding stationary bikes before warm up, endless off ice…

Coaching Legend Jeff Sauer on Getting Recruited Jeff Sauer is one of the NCAA’s most respected and winningest coaches to ever grace the league.   He’s coached the Wisconsin Badgers and Coldorado College for an entire career. He won NCAA national championships and knows how to recruit a top NCAA…

NCAA Hockey Recruits College Hockey Inc and SixteenWins.com released new data on where NCAA hockey players are recruited from. For those of you in Canada, you might want to focus your efforts on getting in touch with the coaches of the ECAC programs who take more Canucks than the other conferences.…

How to Hockey: Agents In our How to Hockey Series we take a look at the top hockey agents in the business. While scouts and coaches look first and foremost at a player’s talent and character, the backing or referral from the right agent can go a long way in…

It’s a remarkable story. Sarah and David Shore must have a trick up their sleeves because next fall their third son, Quentin, is joining his brothers at Denver University’s hockey program. We asked Quentin how it was that the family was so good at producing college hockey players: “I think…

How to Hockey Guide Players and parents often ask for steps they can take to start getting recognized and recruited. Here are JHR’s top 5 in our How to Hockey series. 1. Focus on the Skills on Central Scouting’s Rubric Just as students aren’t as likely to succeed if they…

 Daniel Milne misses a hit along the wall. You can follow him on Twitter @TheMilner7  Daniel Milne  (right) is a 17 year old hockey recruit playing with the St. Mikes Buzzers in the Ontario Junior Hockey League (“OJHL”). The Buzzers are one of the most successful Ontario junior teams in terms…