Hockey IQ is a skill. It can be taught, week by week, lesson by lesson, the same way edges are taught. That's what we built.
Cognitive training for players 10 to 20
The Hockey IQ Program
$49.99Eight monthly payments, per player, plus tax.Eight months covers the full 60 lessons.
See the Game
- How to score more goals.
- What the toughest saves are for a goalie.
- How a team gains an edge.
- A summary of the learning objectives on offense and defense, so the player knows what to strive for every time out.
Become a Complete Player
- What most retired pros wished they knew at 15 instead of 22.
- Tips and tactics that move a good player toward a complete one, on both sides of the puck.
Master Your Role
- An individual thought process built on the four roles, so the player knows their job in every situation on the ice instead of guessing at it.
- The little details a player learns once they reach the higher levels, the ones that make a big difference.
The IMPACT Scorecard
One lesson, the last week, and the player grades their own decisions from then on.
Why wait a season?
You can start any week of the year, and the first lesson takes 15 minutes. There is a game on Saturday either way, and it gets played on what the player already knows. Fifty dollars a month is about the cost of a stick, and a stick lasts a season.
Free, for players and parents
The Puck Carrier Scorecard
- Log your first game with no account at all.
- One tap a play, green, yellow, or red, while the game is happening.
- A Great Green, the play nobody saw coming, gets its own count.
- Trends view with game totals and a five-game average.
"The one thing I use every single day is the self-evaluation sheet. Learning the difference between green, yellow, and red plays gave me a mental framework I bring to every practice and game."Lukas GustafssonMarcus's son. Grew up in Atlanta, prep at Cushing, USHL, captained Boston College, now Manitoba Moose (AHL).
Who it is for
One curriculum, three people in the corner.
The lessons train the player. The other two pieces keep the parent and the coach pulling in the same direction. Every lesson ships all three, and what you see here is Lesson 9.
The four H's
Four H's make a complete player. Everybody trains three.
There are good skating coaches and good skills coaches in every market, and your player probably has both. The fourth one gets called innate, and it is the one that decides who keeps going.
Head
Vision, decisions, reading the play, knowing your role inside a team. The cognitive game.
Heart
Work ethic, compete level, conditioning. What every kid already hears about.
Hands
Stickhandling, shooting, puck skills. Every skills camp covers this well.
High-level skating
Edges, speed, agility, separation. Power skating coaches own this, and there are good ones.
All four gives a player a real shot at the top, and three will still take them a long way. The Head is the one no camp is running, so it is usually the cheapest ceiling to lift.
What hockey IQ is
Hockey IQ gets talked about like something a kid is born with, and it is four skills instead, every one of them trainable.
Without them a player acts. Something new happens, they panic or they guess, and the outcome comes down to luck. With them the player makes a good decision on a consistent basis, and the consistency is the point.
You see more than 300 video examples in the program, and they teach your brain how to play a situation before you are standing in it.
300+ video examples across 60 lessons
Built on the principles of deliberate practice.
Deliberate practice is what separates hours on the ice from getting better at the game. Five of its principles are built into the program. Three of them are on the player.
What the program gives you
- Pushed beyond your current ability, out of the comfort zone.
- A specific goal for every practice.
- Practice with a purpose, following the lessons and themes in order.
- Immediate feedback, from a coach, a peer, or your own scorecard.
- Reps with reflection and refinement. Grade the play green, yellow, or red, look at what you did, and go find the green next time.
What the player brings
- Focus intently.
- Practice with no distractions.
- Be where you are at.
15 players, and the coach runs it free
When 15 or more players from one team subscribe, the coach gets the full program free for 12 months, including the Coach Summary for every lesson, one page of talking points, key takeaways, two drills, and a small-area game. It scales with the roster, so 30 players earns two licenses. No organization budget, no bulk invoice. Email coach@bluelinehky.com.
"She understands so much better where to be on the ice and this really shows in her game. Right now, she is going through the four roles of a hockey player and she says she is hitting passes she never would have made before."
"The program is a great reference manual! I don't need to teach from scratch. I can just reference a lesson in what it says about stick checking, for example."
Honest answers
Is my 10-year-old ready for this?
How is this different from the IntelliGym or VR training?
Do you guarantee my kid will get drafted?
Our coach wants the team on it. How does that work?
The head is the leg of the stool nobody else is training.
Skating, hands, and conditioning are covered in every market now, and they are covered for the kid on the next line too. The Head is the one place left where a player can separate, and it is the one nobody is running a camp for.