Hockey IQ, Skills & Player Development
A hockey parent's guest post on tracking the invisible effort stats — backchecks, forechecks, battles [...]
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Athlete Nutrition
A parent-friendly introduction to Grit Kore's Athlete Nutrition series: the color-coded fuel guide, daily nutrition [...]
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Hockey IQ, Skills & Player Development
As a curious observer, I’ve always found it fascinating to watch how athletic development unfolds [...]
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Hockey IQ, Skills & Player Development
If you’ve ever found yourself in the lobby of a three-star hotel during a hockey [...]
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Ice Size, Training Systems & Global Lessons
Why Canada Produces More NHL Players U.S. hockey development is at a crossroads. With the [...]
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Why Canada Produces More NHL Players U.S. hockey development is at a crossroads. With the NCAA now allowing more CHL players into college hockey, many coaches worry that Canadian players will increasingly earn spots that once went to Americans. But this isn’t really a CHL story. It’s a U.S. hockey development story. The numbers make […]
Every hockey coach I talk to can’t stop talking about the way Team Finland played at the World Juniors. They punch well above their weight in NHL representation. And for years, USA Hockey has studied the Finnish model—trying to decode what people often label as “skill development.” But here’s the reality check. If Finnish players […]
What the Data (and the Kids) Are Telling Us One of the perks of being a hockey geek who actually tracks what happens on the ice is that you get to move past opinions and look at reality. Numbers don’t lie, but they also don’t tell the whole story unless you know how to read […]
If there’s one thing youth hockey teaches us (besides exactly how early your closest coffee shop opens on Sunday morning), it’s that not all ice sheets are created equal. Last weekend we fired up our Grit Kore methodology, dove headfirst into six youth games, and came out with data, sweat, and a few raised eyebrows. […]