Hockey Chat:  The game of hockey takes both aggressive work and smooth moves.  To be too aggressive all the time will get you in the penalty box.  Trying to be too smooth and passive all the time will just plain land you on your backside when you get into a battle.  There are plays that call for the moves and plays that take extra hustle.  It’s important to be ready for both.

Hockey Chat:  Broadcasting your pass is looking at the guy you are passing to in such a way that is so apparent that it’s where you’re going to pass to.  Not only has your receiver seen your pass, but the opponents defense has as well and they have a good chance to read the play and pick it off.  Quick passes and drop passes are a swift way to dish the puck off without getting picked off because your foes didn’t see it coming.

Hockey Chat:  You’ve seen hockey players try to argue there way out of penalties saying that it was just a little hook or they just slashed at the puck not the opponent.  They try to minimize the offense.  Fact is, when they are called for penalty, it’s a penalty.  If they say they just barely hit the guy with their stick, they still are called for slashing.  If plead that they just nudged the guy head first into the boards, they still get called for boarding just as if they slammed him.  When the ref sees a penalty, regardless of the degree, he calls it.

Hockey Chat:  When Martin Brodeur first started playing goalie in a game when he was six years old, he didn’t know what he was in for.  He moved in ways he hadn’t had to move when he was playing forward.  Skaters charged him like never before, and at that age they don’t all have the stopping thing down to good.