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How Long are Youth Hockey Games?

Posted on June 23, 2025June 23, 2025by Carrie
Heading to your first youth hockey game and wondering how long youth hockey games are? Here is a quick guide to hockey game length by age!

If you are new to youth hockey you may find yourself wondering just how long your player’s game will be once regular season starts up. Let’s discuss youth hockey game length by age. How Long are Youth Hockey Games? First, let me say that USA Hockey does not seem to have a set standard as […]

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How To Save Money On Hockey Gear

Posted on June 15, 2025June 15, 2025by Carrie
How to save money on hockey gear

As our players grow, the hockey gear we have invested in gets outgrown. It’s just a fact of hockey life. When it’s time to replace these pieces of equipment, are there strategies to save money? Yes! The easiest way for any hockey family to save money on gear is to buy used equipment either online […]

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5 Easy and Healthy Meals to Eat at the Rink

Posted on June 12, 2025June 13, 2025by Carrie
5 easy and healthy meals to eat at the rink

We all know that homemade meals are best, but the life of a hockey mom can make it awfully hard to not only plan healthy meals for our family, but to just find the time to eat the healthy meals. Between on ice practice schedules and off ice schedules our evening calendars can often look […]

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5 Skills Every Hockey Player Needs to Master

Posted on June 9, 2025June 12, 2025by Carrie
5 Skills Every Hockey Player Needs to Master

This post contains affiliate links. I may make a small commission should you decide to purchase a product through that link. Thank you for your support! As parents we often want to help our kids to make something easier on them or even just easier on us. However, as parents we also want to raise […]

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How to Have the Best Hockey Summer

Posted on June 6, 2025June 12, 2025by Carrie
How to have the best hockey summer

After our first season on a true travel hockey team I remember being so relieved when the end of season came around. Even though it was March, it felt like the beginning of summer vacation. There are a lot of paralels between the two. Both school and a hockey regular season have long and intense […]

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How to Make Buying a Hockey Stick Easier

Posted on June 6, 2025June 12, 2025by Carrie
How to make buying a hockey stick easier

Buying your hockey player’s first ice hockey stick comes with a lot of options. Wood or composite? Flex? Length? While all of these are important aspects of finding a hockey stick, here is the number one tip to make buying a hockey stick easy: how to tell if your kid needs a right or left […]

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4 Hockey Game Bag Essentials for Mom

Posted on May 30, 2025June 12, 2025by Carrie
4 hockey game essentials for mom

This post contains affiliate links. I may earn a small commission at no cost you. Thank you for your support! Ice Hockey of any level is an equipment intensive sport. Each player comes with their own (big) bag of gear and it doesn’t stop there. Moms and any regular spectator come with their own bag […]

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Required Ice Hockey Gear and How to Save Money

Posted on May 29, 2025June 15, 2025by Carrie
Required Ice Hockey Gear for Youth Players and How to Save Money

As a sport, ice hockey is not a pick and go kind of game. Sure, you could strap on a pair of skates and grab a stick and get to playing a game of pick-up hockey on your local frozen pond, but to play on an ice rink with a team you are going to […]

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How to Get Started Playing Youth Ice Hockey

Posted on May 28, 2025June 15, 2025by Carrie
How to get started in youth ice hockey

Across the US and Canada millions of families of tuning into the NHL Playoffs. One team will walk(skate?) away with the Stanley Cup, but what is even more amazing is the increase in kids who want to give ice hockey a try. New to the world of hockey? I was too! Read on for a […]

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