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Daily Dish: Major Junior vs NCAA
Stephen Heisler • 6 mos. 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 • 7 mos. 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 • 7 mos. 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 • 7 mos. 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 • 7 mos. 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 • 7 mos. 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 7 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 • 8 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 • 8 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 • 8 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 ...

Daily Dish: The Coach's Note to All Prospects
Stephen Heisler • 8 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: What's That Floating in the Punch Bowl?
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago Am I the only one who is tired of negative recruiting and intentionally confusing players This week I heard multiple stories about a coach, with non-sanctioned team, that is now using their new status to recruit players. Since ...

Daily Dish: Pay2Play Panic Button
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago Newsflash... it takes actual money to operate a junior hockey team. Despite popular opinion that Tier III and Junior B hockey is a sure bet path to millions of dollars, teams require a large amount of start-up capital to get the season ...

Daily Dish: Guest Disher Cliff Cook
Cliff Cook • 8 mos. ago As I found myself suckered into a no-win conversation the other day regarding Tier III junior hockey, really my own fault, several things began to occur to me; some I've thought about for years and some ...

Daily Dish: The Coach's Note to All Prospects
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago We hope that the last week has been as productive for you as it has been for us. Bliss Littler, Cliff Cook and I were getting back to business after spending the previous week at the 2019 edition of the Great Western event in Las ...

Daily Dish: NCAA Style Recruiting for Junior Hockey?
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago We hear about it all the time; a very young but talented athlete making a commitment to one college or another three years before graduating from high school. Should junior hockey allow teams and coaches to get early commitments from ...

Daily Dish: Main Camp is a Real Opportunity?
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago It's that time of year again; North American and Canadian Junior Hockey League teams are working the emails and phones to fill up the main camps. It is funny how some of the NAHL teams contact players for their tryouts. We were ...

Daily Dish: Commitment to Development
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago Here we are, near the end of July, almost every United States Hockey League, Canadian Junior Hockey League and North American Hockey League team has a loaded depth chart of returnees and rookies. Now all the unattached free agents are all ...

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