3 Tips That Will Help You Score More Goals In Ice Hockey - Part
By Johnny McKenzie, Thu Dec 8th

This article is continued from “3 Tips That Will Help You ScoreMore Goals in Ice Hockey - Part One”.

Assuming that you have set your hockey goals for the season,here are three easy tips you can implement to score morefrequently:

1.Shoot the puck every time you get a chance.

Just look at the statistics for hockey’s greatest goal scorer.These guys are often the guys that have the most shoots on goalevery season. They know that you have to shoot the puck often inorder to score and the chance doesn’t have to be that good.

Simply fire that puck as often as you can.

Wayne Gretzky once said:

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”

Think about how true that is.

You will probably be surprised when you find out that not manyplayers have as many as five shots on net a game. Very oftenevery fifth shot you take will be a goal.

2.Always drive the net for rebounds.

Many goals are being scored on rebounds in ice hockey. Drive thenet every time you see a teammate take a shoot, love the trafficin front of the goalie and put that puck in the net.

3.Always try to score at practice.

It is at practice you will grow custom to good or bad habits.The choice is yours.

Go that extra mile and always try to score on every shoot, everytime you are on the ice. Payoff will come to those who deserveit.

You do want to become a goal scorer, don’t you?

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A Day In The Life Of A Minor League Ice Hockey Player
By Johnny McKenzie, Thu Dec 8th

In the Canadian junior ice hockey system almost every youngplayer dreams about one day making it to the National HockeyLeague.

When you do a fast count in your head you soon realize thatthere are a huge number of guys playing junior hockey in Canada.You also soon realize that very few of these ice hockey playersactually will make it to the National Hockey League.

This article will focus on all those ice hockey players that donot make it directly to the NHL.

These players have to prove themselves in the minor hockeysystem, before a few of them head up to the NHL where they wantto play.

The minor hockey leagues are as follows:

At the level below the National Hockey League you find theAmerican Hockey League and here most of the players have NHLcontracts. It is good ice hockey with many good players.

Players that do not make the American Hockey League findthemselves looking for a job in the minor leagues at the levelbelow. A few of these leagues are East Coast Hockey League,Central Hockey League and the United Hockey League.

As you understand the players do not make as much money in theminors as they do in the NHL and life is tougher as well.

You still play about 70 to 80 games a season in the minors andit is very rare that teams at this level travel by plane. So, ifyou do not know how to sleep on a bus, you better learn. Fast!

A game day in the life of a minor league ice hockey player couldlook like this:

You wake up at around eight, have breakfast and arrive at therink at nine. At the rink you make sure that your equipment isOK and you get ready for the mandatory pre-game skate.

Probably you are hoping for that the coach doesn’t have a badday and skate you too hard. Even though a hard skate has nothurt anybody, very few players enjoy this.

After the morning skate, you shower, get dressed and head for apre-game meal at a greasy restaurant. The food could probably bebetter, but who cares.

After lunch it is back to the rink, pack up the bus, watch twomovies and four hours later it is time to prepare for tonight’sgame.

When you get out of the area after the game it is already darkand you watch two more movies on your way back home. You hit thesack at 2.30 AM and if you lost the game you know that it willnot be fun at practice tomorrow morning.

Hopefully they will be called up you before that.

About the author:Article written by HockeyTribute.com, a NHL hockey fan sitewhere you can read more about NHL hockeyand junior ice hockey.