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About Hockey Made Easy
 Hockey Made Easy is Canada’s premier 220+page minor and youth hockey instruction manual. Hockey Made Easy has helped over 200,000 coaches, parents and players
(boys and girls) from around the world learn how to play hockey correctly and safely since its inception and it will help you.
- 220+ Pages of Information
- 2,000 Valuable Tips
- 200 Illustrations
- Easy to Read
- Easy to Understand
It was published to help both coaches and parents teach basic and team hockey skills, systems and strategies to young male and female players from 5 to 12 years of age in Beginner, Initiation, Novice, Mite, Atom, Squirt and Pee Wee Hockey.
It is written in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand language so the information can be easily transferred to your young players to help develop their individual and team hockey skills and knowledge whether playing in a House League or ‘AAA’ Rep Team program.
The first Hockey Made Easy Manual was published in 1995. Today, we are in our 8th edition. It contains over 2,000 helpful tips, 200 illustrated diagrams and numerous practice drills.
We believe Hockey Made Easy provides the important and comprehensive information for Minor/Youth Hockey players from 5 to 12 years of age—content that is superior to that of any of our competitors.
No one who has purchased Hockey Made Easy has ever returned a manual or requested a refund.
Try it today and you will see the tremendous improvement in your son or daughter’s hockey skill development and knowledge in just a very short period of time—we guarantee it.
Free – Parents and Coaches Teaching Guide with your Purchase
With the purchase of the complete 220-page Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manual you will receive our 30-page Parents and Coaches Teaching Guide—free of charge.
This will enable dedicated parents and coaches to teach your son, daughter, or players, in a specific teaching sequence, the basic and advanced hockey skills, systems and strategies at your home, in a classroom, gym or large hall, or on the ice at your practices.
The Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manual provides in-depth teaching instruction on the following topics:
Basic Skills:
- Skating: forward, backward, stops, starts, turns and 180-degree pivots
- Puckhandling, stickhandling, deking and carrying the puck
- Passing and receiving on forehand and backhand
- Shooting and scoring: including numerous ways to shoot and score goals
- Checking: Stick checking & body checking, correctly playing 1 on 1 and 2 on 1 situations
- Goaltending: Skills and drills
Systems:
- Clearing and breakout plays
- Forechecking systems
- Backchecking systems
- Power play options
- Penalty killing options
Strategy:
- Dump and chase
- Puck control
- Composition of lines and defence pairings
- Net coverage and corner work
- How to protect a lead
- Playoff strategy
Basic Hockey Rules:
- Off-sides, delayed off-sides, intentional off-sides
- Icing and non-icing
- Overview of penalties and what causes them
Conditioning:
- Aerobic drills
- Anaerobic drills
Nutrition:
- What foods to eat and when to eat them prior to a game or practice
- What foods to avoid prior to a game or practice
Hockey Terms and Expressions:
- A vast list of hockey terms and expressions that every Minor Hockey coach, parent and player should understand
What Parents, Coaches and Players Need to Know About Minor/Youth Hockey:
- Preparing for a Competitive/Travel/Rep Team tryout camp
- Signing a player commitment card for Rep/Travel players or obtaining a release
- Affiliation- what it means and who can be an affiliate player
- When to get your child to the arena for a game or practice
- Parents’ behavior at the game
and much, much, more...
For a more in-depth review of manual contents, please refer to the
 Table of Contents
Guarantee
The 4 Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manuals come with a
risk-free 30 day money back
guarantee.
If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with
any Hockey Made Easy Instruction
Manual simply return it within 30 days of your purchase date for
a complete no-hassle
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John Shorey - Author and Publisher Hockey Made Easy
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