RinkLog Academy
For parents
These pages are not about tactics but about an adult's place around a child's hockey. They cover the ride home, how to show a number without it becoming a verdict, what a parent can reasonably expect at each age, and the signs that should raise concern. The thread running through them is simple: measuring exists to remember and to encourage, never to judge.
20 pages on this topic
Glossaries and age guides
9- Which stats should you track at U7-U9 hockey?
- Which stats should you track at U11-U13 hockey?
- Which stats should you track at U15-U18 hockey?
- How do you read an official scoresheet?
- Hockey age groups and levels, explained: U7 to U21, 6U to 18U, M7 to M18
- The hockey locker-room glossary
- How do you read and fill out a hockey score sheet?
- Offside and icing, explained for parents
- Recognizing the signs of a concussion in hockey
The RinkLog philosophy
9- Progress, not pressure
- What the scoresheet says, and what it does not
- Why goals are not everything
- Why no one gets left behind: the relative age effect
- How do you talk stats with your young player?
- Does tracking their stats put pressure on them?
- How do you rebuild a young player's confidence?
- What do you say to your kid in the car after the game?
- Understanding roles in hockey
The other Academy topics
The theory is here. The measurement is in RinkLog.
Every one of these statistics computes automatically during your games, one thumb from the stands.
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