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Daily Dish: Is It Time to Bite the Billet?
Stephen Heisler • 4 mos., 24 days ago In the last week, teams and leagues have been forced to address a number of COVID scares due in part to the system of billeting that the level of play has come to depend on. The age-old thought that "boys will be boys" is now ...

Daily Dish: Catastrophic Consequences -
Stephen Heisler • 4 mos., 25 days ago "OK boys listen up, we are going to let you guys get over to Gotham on your own, so carpool up and save your gas receipts, the team will reimburse you," the coach told his players after Thursday's practice. "Hey, no speeding and ...

Daily Dish: Realities of College Commitments -
Stephen Heisler • 4 mos., 29 days ago Junior hockey programs have a way of treating college commitments like a badge of honor to influence the decision process of younger prospective hockey players. The truth about college commitments is very simple. Anything thing ...

Daily Dish: Defund the Refs and End Defensemen Inequalities in Hockey? -
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 2 days ago Much like our society as a whole, the game of ice hockey has never really addressed a glowing issue among skating players; defenseman get less developmental opportunities than forward line skaters. On-ice game officials have a ...

Daily Dish: Attention Developing Defensemen -
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 6 days ago The modern game of hockey is emphasizing the need for skilled players. As a result of this philosophy, it is now becoming imperative that each player not only master the general skills of skating, stickhandling, passing and ...

Daily Dish: Springfield Down, Jamestown Players Dispersed Today
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 9 days ago Well, it could have been a lot worse. The North American Hockey League approved the dormancy request of the Springfield Blues and Jamestown Rebels last week. While the Blues' players have already been ...

Daily Dish: Practice or Games?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 16 days ago There is a battle brewing within the developmental community in regards to the ratio of time allocated to practice and games. On one side of the fence, the thought that more game experience generates competitive growth. The other side ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Drugs and Hockey Do Not Mix!
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 20 days ago Former North American Hockey League bench boss Chuck Linkenheld is a good friend and somebody I have a lot of respect for. In light of a number of recent issues regarding marijuana and other various drugs of choice, I thought ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Zero Tolerance?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 22 days ago **This is one of many articles that gets published every year because it's important information that every player and their family needs to be aware of. **Today I want to touch on a subject that will not be very popular, but in ...

Daily Dish: Social (Media) Injustice or Stupidity?
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 23 days ago Players hear about it all the time but for some reason the message misses the mark for some. Don't say something on any social media platform that would upset your grandparents, parents, or future in-laws. When are people going to realize ...

Daily Dish: Help Wanted
Stephen Heisler • 5 mos., 27 days ago Here at JuniorHockey.com, the season never ends and that's where you fit in. The site has grown to provide the most extensive coverage of hockey's most exciting level of play. The flurry of news related to ...

Daily Dish: Converting the COVID Problem Into a Junior Hockey Cure -
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Let's face it, this COVID crisis is taking a heavy toll from the entire hockey development system. From the youth level to the American Hockey League, every player, coach, team, and fan is feeling the pinch. Is it also the ...

Daily Dish: Are You Kidding Me?
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Yes, that's the most common definition of insanity. The NFL took a viewership hit when they allowed kneeling in ...

Daily Dish: Poor Me?
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Do you hear it? Nope, I can't hear it either. There are no violins, harps, or french horns being played as a result of lost opportunities and shattered dreams. Yes, this politically charged pandemic crisis is already causing turmoil ...

Daily Dish: Cancel Culture
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago While the political spectrum continues to spin the upcoming hockey season completely out of control, the North American Hockey League rumor mill has literally taken one truth and turned it into something else entirely. No, the entire South ...

Daily Dish: Love Me Tendered
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Being tendered by a junior hockey team is a lot like getting engaged. Like a potential bride, the prospect has committed that the team is the one and only. Like an engagement announcement, both the team and player are giddy about the ...

Daily Dish: Youth Prospect Development -
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago There has never been a better time for youth level prospects to team up with the advisory services that Victorious Hockey specializes in. In the most chaotic time in hockey's history, families will benefit from the experience and ...

Daily Dish: Leaders of Men -
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Once in a while it's important that the leadership of junior hockey (owners, managers, coaches, parents) get a reminder of what the primary responsibility really is. In reality, very few of the young men under our direction ...

Daily Dish: New Normal?
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Doomsday is NOT here. Despite the wishful thoughts and hopes of a ridiculous number from the world of academia, arts, and video games, life as we know it WILL go on. It was all gloom and doom yesterday as sports expert after ...

Daily Dish: Time to Dump the Draft?
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Everybody is up in arms about the recent North American Hockey League Draft. OK, I'll say it; I've never liked these drafts because it's more about limiting options than creating developmental opportunities. We all understand how ...

Daily Dish: Major (Junior) Dilemma
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago "You gotta keep 'em separated" The Offspring's Come Out And Play It's a whole new world for junior hockey leagues, teams, coaches, and players. The turmoil is being felt coast to coast and there is no apparent end in ...

Daily Dish: College Commitments -
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago Junior hockey programs have a way of treating college commitments like a badge of honor to influence the decision process of other young hockey prospects.The truth about college commitments is very simple.Anything thing before their senior ...

Daily Dish: Career Up in Smoke?
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. ago What is the single word that can force just about any college hockey coach to think again about a prospect? Marijuana. There are even junior organizations with players toking up on the funny weed courtesy of the resident head coach. In the ...

DAILY DISH: Five Steps to Being a Better Teammate
Stephen Heisler • 7 mos. ago Most of us have played on teams since childhood so we have gotten accustomed to the pre-season when first joining a team and getting to know the other players. It's during this time period when first ...

DAILY DISH: Hockey Core Fitness
Stephen Heisler • 7 mos. ago In the past we spent a lot of time talking about psychological fitness so today we're going to get into the importance of proper physical core training as it relates to the high end ...

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