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Hi everyone! I'm excited to share that we will be running back the Sawchuk and Steege Summer Hockey Camp in the summer of '26! Details attached, please feel free to share and reach out with any questions!
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"We’ve got youth hockey backwards. Too much isolated skill work. Not enough actual hockey. I grew up playing on frozen ponds in Russia. 3v3 mixed ages, constant decisions, constant pressure. That’s where real development happened." hubs.la/Q04xDMw80
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One of the smartest players in the game speaking about how the game is changing where it’s faster…but (in his words) dumber.
This is what pretty much all high level hockey people will tell you. The players have never been more skilled, but there’s a severe lack of hockey IQ and creativity.
This starts in youth hockey.
-The lack of unstructured play.
-Coaching systems instead of creativity.
-Too much emphasis on winning and players not having freedom to make mistakes.
-Skating around implements that look good on instagram rather than drills with decision making.
The game has changed because how we coach kids and the business of hockey have changed at the youth levels.
The fact that Kucherov is speaking to it is wild.
Nolan Sawchuk retweeted
What’s the secret for building skills in young soccer players that will survive?
It’s not about more drills to learn “technical skills”.
It’s more fun than you think:
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Not to mention the 5-6 players standing and watching while 1 players runs the pattern.
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The greatest gap in youth sports parenting right now:
The “linear” learning myth.
Here’s what it is and why it is hurting kids:
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The MN Prospects Lakers claim the 2026 @ChipotleTweets-USA Hockey Girls Tier II 14U 2A National Championship title in a shootout!
#USAHNationals game recap: usah.info/368yxuc2
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Hi everyone! I'm excited to share that we will be running back the Sawchuk and Steege Summer Hockey Camp in the summer of '26! Details attached, please feel free to share and reach out with any questions!
Nolan Sawchuk retweeted
"We won our league championship and I played the entire 3rd period."
Pro player @connorcarrick dad's response to his son playing the entire 3rd period in youth hockey is legendary.
We need more parents like him in our game.
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Just over a minute into overtime of the 2A title game at the 2025 #USAHNationals Girls Tier II 14U Championship, Minnesota Lakers forward Caroline Keepman sealed the deal—delivering the game-winner and a national title to her team!
@ChipotleTweets | #TrainEatRepeat
Hi everyone! Attached are details of a summer hockey camp I am putting on and co-instructing. Since graduating college I have been coaching players of all levels and for a variety of training programs. Please share with anyone who may be interested or for other inquiries!
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Girls 14U Prospects District Championship
The Lakers control the pace of the game and take a 24-10 shot advantage thru regulation but a goal by Beach for the Walleye with 37 seconds left sends the game to OT. An unassisted OT goal by Gerebi is the difference in a 2-1 Lakers win
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Wayne Gretzky, on his concern on the stifling creativity in today’s young players:
“What we’ve lost is playing on the pond and just going out there and using your creativity and your imagination… learning how to make funny plays and good plays and creative plays. And we’ve lost that imagination and creativity that we had in the 60s and 70s and 80s.”
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Augsburg's Avery Sawchuk earns All-MIAC honors, tying for 10th place with 54-hole school-record 236 at MIAC Championships! Auggies finish 8th as a team.
Story: athletics.augsburg.edu/news/…
#d3golf #AuggiePride
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Being “coachable” might be the biggest lost quality in youth sports.
Lots of kids seem put off by being coached. As if being shown how to do something better is a knock on them.
Being coached means the coach cares about you.
Maybe more of a message for the parents.
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This is why pond hockey needs to exist, street hockey needs to live on, and unstructured play is so damn important. These are dudes PLAYING hockey. Coaching is important, but we also need to allow kids time to PLAY. This goal is learning from PLAY.
The beautiful game.
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If I had a dime for every former high level hockey player or coach who sent me a text like this…
Youth hockey culture is like a repellent to a lot of good hockey people, they get in for a year and then peace out from the dysfunction. It’s really a shame.
