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Daily Dish: Pay-to-Play Peanut Brains
Stephen Heisler • 4 mos., 24 days ago It's just a few weeks into the young season and we're already hearing about coaches hitting the panic button. You know the one that just now realizes they have come up a bit short. Imagine the frustration of a young player ...

Daily Dish:Independent Junior Hockey
Stephen Heisler • 4 mos., 27 days ago There seams to be a ton of interest from prospective operators of free-to-play hockey teams and communities these days. Unlike inquires from years past, the latest trend may actually find itself from the talking stage to ...

Daily Dish: NAHL Simply the Best
Stephen Heisler • 4 mos., 28 days ago When it comes to putting on the greatest junior level Showcase on ice, there's not a league on the planet that compares to the North American Hockey League. From day one of their annual event in Blaine (MN) to Amarillo's ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Zero Tolerance?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 1 day ago Today I want to touch on a subject that will not be very popular, but in reality it's very important that everybody involved with junior hockey take notice. There's no such thing as casual drug (and alcohol) use. There's also no ...

Daily Dish:Individual Player Development
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 8 days ago It has been said it before and I will say it again; the point of junior hockey is to raise each player's individual level of skill in preparation for college or professional hockey. We have seen way too many players actually lower ...

Daily Dish: Tier III National Championship?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 11 days ago So tell me, am I the only one that sees right through all these league rankings baloney and would rather see such disagreements play itself out in the most logical venue; on the ice? Since USA Hockey is now really sanctioning ...

Daily Dish: It's Time to Dump Pay2Play Drafts
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 12 days ago You live in a decent area, and are lucky enough to have the favorite grocery store only a few miles from your house. The chain that your store is a part of has five other locations in the region. One day a letter comes in the ...

Daily Dish: Seat Stuffer
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 15 days ago Every junior hockey team in America would like to create a larger demand for their product. Below is a concept that not only stuffs your empty seats, but also gives the players a huge sense of responsibility. As a parent, I know the ...

Daily Dish: Major Junior vs NCAA
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 16 days ago When two completely different levels of play are in competition for the same level of player, the battle is going to be fierce. College Hockey, Inc. was formed to combat the three leagues that make up the Canadian Hockey League and their ...

Daily Dish: Is It Time For A Junior Hockey Revolution?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 19 days ago Before we get into the meat and potatoes of today's Daily Dish let me say this; the concept that follows is not about raiding teams from existing leagues, it is simply an idea that has a bit of traction with operators across the ...

Daily Dish: Transition From Prospect to Pro
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 23 days ago Talent is a fantastic gift that is often wasted. It takes more than talent to transition from a professional prospect to a full-time professional athlete. Many athletes rely on natural abilities and downplay the ...

Daily Dish: USA Hockey Open Cup? Why Not?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 25 days ago Picture this: A packed Madison Square Gardens in New York City, a junior team from Waterloo, led by a hot goaltender and excellent team play, is set to square off against the New York Rangers in the semi-finals of USA Hockey's Open Cup. A ...

Daily Dish—Have arena, zamboni, and fans…Beaumont just needs a team
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 26 days ago Happiness, hurricanes, and all the comforts of home, bring your puck to Beaumont. Houston is an hour or so away, but a world apart. Beaumont never had a clue about the frozen game until plans for Ford Park ...

Daily Dish: Individual Player Marketing
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 30 days ago The player is always #1 at JuniorHockey.com. Because of this, we often get attacked for carrying out a certain agenda. Our agenda is simple. We look out for the player and try to present accurate information to assist each player (and his ...

Daily Dish: Original Perspective
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago It's amazing! That other guy posts "league rankings" on an annual basis in a biased effort to discourage families from considering one league over others. And every year we get calls and texts from clients in a panic over where ...

Daily Dish: Captain Crunch
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago It's on. We are into the last few weekends of August, and the pressure is on for coaches to complete the recruiting process. Some coaches have lost a lot of sleep trying to scratch and sniff for scraps while the smart guys are already ...

Daily Dish: Guest Disher Cliff Cook
Cliff Cook • 6 mos. ago Why Missoula?Well, first let me address something else at the risk of upsetting people in my own league, there is good hockey all over the country in a variety of leagues. There, I said it. Stephen Heisler and I have been friends for many ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Central Hockey League dead?
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago GEM FROM JUNE 2011and they thought I was crazy to suggest such a thing... Earlier this year we got crucified for suggesting that as many as eight teams would be leaving the Central Hockey League this spring and summer. Aside ...

Daily Dish: Pay-to-Play Panic
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago It's that time of the year again. Undercapitalized junior programs will be falling by the wayside over the next few weeks. It's become an annual tradition to see a number of teams fail, leaving players to scramble for spots on other team ...

Best Of The Daily Dish: Hockey Reality
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Len Lesser is an education and career consultant based in London, Ontario. The following article is one of his that has caused a stir in Canada. I have to go along with what Lesser is saying here, and I believe, so will ...

Best Of The Daily Dish: Cougarville??
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago "Oh no, she found me, that woman has been blowing up my phone!" The junior coach was cornered as his friend scurried away. In walked a woman wearing high heels, a short skirt, a cell phone in ...

Daily Dish: Notes to Prospects
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Victorious Hockey is a completely different type of hockey advisory company. With the words character and integrity engraved in our foundation; we offer players and coaches alike the unique opportunity to develop their individual ...

Daily Dish: Juvenile Delinquents
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago It's generally easy to ignore jabs from youthful wannabes, but something was said by the pod boys that got under my skin. "Not only do these guys recycle content, they have zero originality. Oh yeah, they are also completely ...

DAILY DISH: Veteran's Dilemma
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Mason is a nineteen year-old, 2nd line junior "A" defender. He has been playing junior hockey since he was fifteen and living away from home for hockey since he was twelve. Mason has seen more than his fair share of coaches and systems. ...

Daily Dish: To Coaches That Want to Be Respected
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Coaches across the platform of junior hockey are in the final stages of filling their rosters. It is in these times when the true character of a coach and program start to emerge. Year after year we hear about teams that sign every ...

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