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The Best Hockey Training Packages

Right now, circumstances have led to people having to spend a lot more time at home. The old normal of hockey games, practices, and gym training has been transformed into the new normal of self-isolation. This means no playing with your teammates, getting in-person instruction from your coach or training on professional equipment at the rink or a gym.  Read more

How to Train at Home During These Uncertain Times

During these unprecedented and uncertain times, everyone in the world has a responsibility to do their part to get past this global pandemic. Keeping mentally and physically healthy during this period can be difficult. Here are a few things hockey players can do to get through these tough times. Read more

What is Happening In the State of Hockey?

We’re probably a little biased here at Snipers Edge Hockey (being a Minnesota-based company) but like many people, we firmly believe that Minnesota is the greatest hockey state in the U.S.A. Don’t just take our word for it though. ESPN recently named the Minneapolis-St. Paul area the #1 hotbed of hockey in America and anointed Edina, MN as the “center of the American hockey universe”. Read more

5 Characteristics of a Good Leader

There is no greater honor in the game of hockey than wearing that big “C” or “A” on your chest. Being a captain or assistant captain means that your coaches and teammates have deemed you worthy of leading them on the ice. These two letters are not the only thing that designates hockey leadership though. You can see leadership qualities all over the rink from all types of players when you look for it. Read more

A Valentine’s Day Love Letter to Hockey

It’s February and you know what that means. Love is in the air! I’m not talking about roses and candy and cupid though. I’m talking about the love of hockey! Approaching Valentine’s Day is the best time of the year for hockey. We are past the midseason mark at every level of the game and bearing down toward the playoffs. Plus, it is still cold enough outside in many hockey-crazy areas that the outdoor games on ponds and backyard rinks are in full effect.  Read more

The Tips to an Effective Wrist Shot

There are so many important skills in the game of hockey. Being able to improve and eventually master skating, stickhandling, and passing is incredibly important. But, let’s be honest. There is nothing that is quite as rewarding or quite as fun as ripping a shot on the net! Because of this, one of the questions we get asked most at Snipers Edge is how to better shoot the puck. Read more

The Breakaway Shot – Master it

The puck squirts out into open ice. You are the first one to it. You take off. When you look up, there only clean ice between you and the goalie. You, my friend, are now on the breakaway! One of the most exciting plays in hockey, the breakaway is thrilling, exciting, and more than a little bit nerve-wracking. When nothing is between you and the hockey goal, it is all on your shoulders to either score or be stoned by the keeper.  Read more

6 Traits of Great Hockey Players

What do Wayne Gretzky, Dominik Hasek, P.K. Subban, and Connor McDavid all have in common? Outside of all being all-time great hockey players, you may say not all that much. Some are big and strong and physical. Some are agile and technically gifted. Some just stop shots better than anyone else. What they all have in common though when you look a little deeper, are the base traits that make up a great hockey player. Read more

Improve Your Passing Skills

Everyone wants to be the one to put the puck in the back of the net but, truth be told, the type of player that every great player wants to play with is a great passer. Being able to thread a long, cross-ice pass through the defense or perfectly set up a quick one-timer are skills that will get you far in the game of hockey.   Read more

New Year, New Decade, New You!

New Year's is a time to both look back at the years past and forward to the years ahead. The end of a decade and the beginning of a new one makes it an even better time to do so. The 2010s have been an amazing decade for hockey. The decade ahead is filled with promise too. A 32nd team will join the bunch with the Seattle team joining in 2021. Young guns like Auston Matthews, Jack Eichel, Brock Boeser and Nathan MacKinnon will try and place their names among the biggest stars. And, every team will start fresh and try to add their names to the Cup in the 2020s. Read more