Thunder Bay Minor Hockey Association

The Thunder Bay Minor Hockey Association office has a small library of coaching aids available for loan to any registered coach in our league. Contact the office to sign out.

• Hockey Canada Skills Binder for Bantam-aged Players
• Hockey Canada Skills Binder for Midget-aged Players
• Hockey Canada Skills Binder for Goalies

Eight (8) DVD’s in two volumes produced by Hockey Canada. Depending upon requests, there may be a limit as to how many DVD’s may be signed out by one coach. The eight titles are:

• DVD 1 – SKATING: Progressive skills and drills designed to develop and improve a player’s skating ability, with instruction in balance, agility, edge control, starting and stopping, forward skating, backward skating, turning and crossovers;
• DVD 2 – PUCK CONTROL: Progressive skills and drills designed to develop and improve a player’s ability to handle the puck, through instruction of puck control and passing and receiving, both while stationary or moving;
• DVD 3 – SHOOTING AND SCORING: Progressive skills and drills designed to improve a player’s ability to shoot and score, with instruction on sweep shots, wrist shots, flip shots, snap shots, slap shots, tips and deflections and dekes;
• DVD 4 – CHECKING: Includes instructions on the four-step progression to teach checking skills that begins the very first time a player takes to the ice, including development of positioning, angling, stick checks, contact confidence and body contact;
• DVD 5 – OFFENSIVE TACTICS: Covers the fundamentals of offensive tactics in the defensive, neutral and offensive zone;
• DVD 6 – DEFENSIVE TACTICS: Covers the fundamentals of defensive tactics for individual players as well as team defensive tactics through all three zones. Topics include: skating, 1 on 1 defensive technique, back checking, backside support, shot blocking, 2 on 1 rush defense; forechecking, defensive zone coverage, etc.;
• DVD 7 – TEAM PLAY: Covers the concepts of defensive zone coverage, breakouts, transitions and regroups, offensive zone play, forechecking, special teams and faceoffs;
• DVD 8 – OFF ICE TRAINING: An inside look at off ice training techniques that will enhance a players abilities on ice.