Mike Margolies - JuniorHockey.com Contributor

As promised this is the second part of my discussion of a concept called TAGFEE and Team Building. I should tell you it is never too late to work on team building. Often times during the season things may start to degenerate and good team ...

TAGFEE in Sports - Build your team as you would your businessFollowing my last post on Predators in Sports, and rather than spend time talking about the things to do when it happens, I thought I would spend the time writing about ways ...

I got a disturbing message this morning from Stephen Heisler of JuniorHockey.com telling me about the arrest of Coach and General Manager of the Massachusetts Maple Leafs as an alleged sexual predator. You can read the post ...

If we look at a metaphoricalgeneralized model of what motivation might look like it might be a large water tank. I am not in any way removing my supposition that we need to think about motivation as a triangle. This is just another way of ...

If you have followed this blog at all you know I sometimes ask the important question of WHY do you compete? Why do you play hockey? Well there is another WHY. And it is why do mental training at all? I was asked the other day and not ...

I like to post mental game exercises just so people can see that there really are things they can do that will help them mentally prepare to become a better hockey player. Here is a new exercise. I borrowed this from a friend. I am very ...

Role ModelsI was going to continue some thoughts about the turmoil within us as an addition to my last post. I'll get to that next time. I was struggling with what I wanted to write. The gist of it is that we average 65,000 thought per day ...

This is an Old Native American Story, or so I am told. Various tribes would gather and they would pass down knowledge from one generation to the next about Sport Psychology.I admit it. I stole this story off a Facebook post. I have heard ...

Anger Management in Aggressive SportsModern psychologists view anger as a primary, natural, and mature emotion experienced by virtually all humans at times, and as something that has functional value for survival. Anger can mobilize ...

On returning from working with the Cheyenne StampedeI spent a week with the Cheyenne Stampede working with them on the mental game. I thought I would take a brief moment to talk about the process. It is a process I have used many times, ...