5 Tips for Life with your Hockey Billet
By Nick Olynyk Imagine that you’re being dropped into a stranger’s house for a winter. You don’t know who the people are. You don’t know what it looks like inside. Yet that’s where you must eat, sleep and live. You’re going to call it “home.” That’s billeting,…
This Year’s College Hockey Experience
The College Hockey Experience wrapped up its season after taking teams from the GTHL and OMHA to over 10 different NCAA Division I programs in the United States. The College Hockey Experience was designed JHR members Mark Wires and D’Arcy McConvey, former professional athletes, specifically to build…
How to Hockey: The Hockey Recruiting Video – Is it Worth It?
Last year we did a how to hockey post on 5 Steps for Getting Recruited. The fifth step we looked at was putting your highlights on YouTube and other sites. In fact, Forse Hockey created an entire business around recruits posting videos for scouts to review. It makes…
Playing for Waffles: My Season in Belgium
If you have not read Adam Dennis’ article first, give it a read. It’s a great perspective on how hockey can help you experience life abroad. I am jumping on the bandwagon to add to this theme. My season playing in Belgium (yes, Belgium) was the best…
Hockey Concussions and the Effect on Hockey Recruits
This Post was Generously Sponsored by the Personal Injury Lawyers at Pannone. With Sydeny Crosby’s concussions came a swarm of media coverage about concussions in hockey and the immediate and long-term damage. What often goes unreported are the thousands of concussions suffered by minor hockey players each year and…
What Every Athlete Wants – Episode 1 – Building a Better Hockey Player
Building a Better Hockey Player Follow The 13 Part Series on Jr Hockey Recruit tracking our member Andrew Hopf, the hockey trainer…
The Art of Slump-Busting
Hockey Slumps Hockey slumps are a bitch. After game two, the media tried to proclaim Sidney Crosby’s two-game drought a slump. …
Recruits Take Notice: CCM’s 2013 North American Elite Skills Camp
#StartYourLegend CCM, recently launched its “Start Your Legend” campaign. The campaign is an initiative born from the 2012 CCM Skills Camp,…
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