Free Coach's Playbook: The Hockey Coach's Guide to Coaching Goalies
Become the Coach Every Goalie Remembers
Learn simple, practical strategies to better communicate with, develop, and inspire your goaltenders - even if you've never played the position yourself.
One 5-minute lesson delivered each day
Practical coaching tips you can use immediately
14 downloadable Coach's Playbook guides included
Coaching Goalies Shouldn't Feel Complicated.
Most hockey coaches want to do right by their goalies but have never been taught how. If you've ever wondered what to say after a bad goal, how to build goalie confidence, or how to better support your starter and backup, this free 14-lesson guide is for you. You'll learn simple, practice-ready strategies that will help you become the coach every goalie remembers.
What You'll Learn
Over the next 14 days you'll discover how to:
Understand the goalie mindset
Build confidence after mistakes
Communicate effectively before, during, and after games
Run more goalie-friendly practices
Support both your starter and backup
Know when and how to make goalie changes
Build stronger relationships with goalie parents
…and much more.
Every lesson includes a downloadable Coach's Playbook Resource that you can print and use all season long.
Who Is This For?
Head Coaches
Assistant Coaches
Rep Coaches
House League Coaches
First-Time Coaches
Hockey Directors
Whether you're coaching U7 or U18, you'll leave with practical tools to better support every goalie on your team.
Here's a Preview of the Course:
Practical, coach-tested ideas that improve goalie confidence, communication, and engagement - without changing how you run practice.
Phase 1: Understanding
Before you can effectively coach your goalie, you need to understand how they think, what they experience, and what they need from you. This phase helps you see the game through your goalie's eyes and lays the foundation for building trust, confidence, and stronger coach-goalie relationships.
Learn why you don't need to be a goalie expert to positively impact your goaltenders and discover the five habits every great coach should practice.
Learn how goalies process the game differently and how seeing the game from their perspective leads to better coaching decisions.
Understand the unique mental demands of the position and how to better support your goalie on and off the ice.
Phase 2: Inspire
Confident goalies aren't born - they're developed. In this phase, you'll learn how your words, actions, and leadership can help goalies recover from mistakes, embrace challenges, and perform with greater confidence throughout the season.
Learn what builds confidence, what hurts it, and how your words can help your goalie quickly reset and refocus.
Discover simple coaching habits that build lasting confidence and help goalies perform without the fear of making mistakes.
Discover practical ways to keep both goalies engaged, motivated, and developing - regardless of who's in the crease.
Phase 3: Develop
Great goalie development doesn't require a complete overhaul of your practices. This phase teaches simple, practical adjustments that make every practice and every game more valuable for your goaltenders.
Learn a proven warm-up progression that prepares your goalie physically and mentally for success.
Understand why quality repetitions matter more than quantity and how to create meaningful goalie development.
Discover how to turn ordinary team drills into purposeful goalie development opportunities without changing your entire practice plan.
Learn when to coach, when to encourage, and when the best coaching decision is to simply let your goalie compete.
Phase 4: Lead
Great coaches do more than teach skills - they lead people. In this final phase, you'll learn how to recognize what your goalie needs, communicate effectively with families, and become the kind of coach your players remember long after the season ends.
Learn to recognize the subtle signs of confidence, frustration, fatigue, and focus so you can better support your goalie throughout the game.
Explore a thoughtful framework for making one of coaching's toughest decisions while maintaining your goalie's confidence and trust.
Build stronger partnerships with goalie families by improving communication, setting expectations, and creating a positive development environment.
Bring everything together and discover how the small moments of coaching create lasting confidence, stronger relationships, and a meaningful legacy.
Meet Your Instructor
Jared Lockhurst
Founder & Head Instructor, Blue Ice Goaltending
Most hockey coaches are never taught how to coach goalies and that's exactly why Jared founded Blue Ice Goaltending.
A former Brampton AAA, Junior A (OJHL), and NCAA Division III goaltender, Jared has spent nearly two decades helping goalies, coaches, and organizations across Southern Ontario build confidence, develop skills, and create better experiences for young netminders.
He created The Coach's Playbook: The Hockey Coach's Guide to Coaching Goalies to give coaches practical, easy-to-apply strategies that help them better understand, communicate with, and support their goaltenders, without needing to become goalie experts.
"My goal isn't to turn coaches into goalie coaches. It's to give them the confidence and tools to help every goalie on their team succeed."
- Jared Lockhurst
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