Ice Hockey — Learning to Play the Game

James Bloom
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The podcast that teaches you to think the game. Learn exactly where to position yourself, how to make the right play, how to anticipate what happens next, and how to flow with your teammates as a single unit. If you want smarter hockey, this is where it starts.

  1. Episode 1

    Getting Started

    The way in is graded, and it starts before hockey. Public skating or a learn-to-skate class first, then a one-off taster, then a beginners' block of several weeks, then a team or a… Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/getting-started/getting_started/

  2. Episode 2

    Reading Ice Hockey Diagrams

    In a rink diagram a circle is a forward and a triangle is a defenceman, while an open glyph is your own team and a solid one the opposition. Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/reading-diagrams/reading_ice_hockey_diagrams/

  3. Episode 3

    Rink Map

    Hockey's vocabulary is spatial: almost every instruction you will ever be given on the ice is a location plus a reason. Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/foundation/rink_map/

  4. Episode 4

    Rules Primer

    Find out which rulebook your league plays under before your first game, because the books disagree, and one of the disagreements can cost you the rest of the match. Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/foundation/rules_primer/

  5. Episode 5

    UK and England Rules

    If you play in Britain, your rule book is the IIHF's. Every level of the game here runs on it — the National Ice Hockey League, the recreational and junior game across England, Wales,… Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/foundation/uk_rules/

  6. Episode 6

    On-Ice Communication

    The player with the puck is the least informed player on the ice, and everyone else can see what they cannot. Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/foundation/on_ice_communication/

  7. Episode 7

    Center

    You are the link between all five skaters, and the half of that belief measurement leaves untouched is about territory, not mileage — the centre's job spans all three zones and the… Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/positions/center/

  8. Episode 8

    Winger

    In your own end and through the neutral zone, holding your lane is a spacing job before it is a scoring one — in the containment structure this document assumes, which is a coaching… Full text, diagrams and sources at learn-ice-hockey.com/positions/winger/

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The podcast that teaches you to think the game. Learn exactly where to position yourself, how to make the right play, how to anticipate what happens next, and how to flow with your teammates as a single unit. If you want smarter hockey, this is where it starts.

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