**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**The topic of conversation over the EHL weekend was without a doubt their test with the goal scoring rules this year. We’ll get back to our #onegoalisonegoal hashtag , but first… I’ve said it many times and will keep on saying it. We’re very lucky in western Europe to be able to enjoy both top […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**A lot of things are going wrong in international hockey these days. Argentina sees two major players taking a break from international hockey because of bad management in their federation. Dutch hoofdklasse clubs sound the alarm towards their own national federation, who seems not willing to change the competition format of the renowned Dutch “hoofdklasse” […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**It’s been a couple of months now since the new Hockey Pro League or HPL has been announced to start the revolution of hockey around the world. Not without certain upsets following it, as is to be expected from any change that wants to start a revolution. Today still, the new event has no sponsors […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**The HPL or Hockey Pro League will undoubtedly have its effect on the calendar for domestic leagues or as we call this in Europe “club hockey”. But with some common sense and good will we can get a long way. The following set-up would seem the most logical choice according to me: week 1-10 : […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**We’ve had quite a lot of “innovation” – just another fancy word for change 🙂 – these last years in our favourite game of hockey. Some of these rule changes were not a big hit. Think for example the own goal rule¹.  But several were instrumental in making our game better. Think self-pass² or being […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**FIH launched the Hockey Revolution some time ago and in recent blogs we talked about several of it’s components already. Last Monday we decided to talk directly to the new CEO of FIH, Jason McCracken and a president of one of the European federations, Marc Coudron from Belgium about this hockey revolution. Hockey5.TV is our […]
**Estimated reading time: < 1 minute**A very special edition for Hockey5.TV aired live on 2017-03-27. Instead of top players we had a talk with two top administrators for our game of hockey. Jason McCracken is the newly appointed CEO of the FIH, the international hockey federation. Marc Coudron is the president of the Belgian federation and board member at the […]
**Estimated reading time: 4 minutes**It’s almost EHL time again, a strange tournament if you compare it for example to the Australian AHL or the Indian HIL. Inherent to our European culture it is a tournament where the best of the best want to excel, but… where we will also give opportunities to offer a taste of “the real thing” to […]
**Estimated reading time: 3 minutes**The European Hockey League, so it seems, is once again at some kind of cross roads. This years edition, like all others before, was once again played in The Netherlands. At Bloemendaal, the legendary club of players like Floris-Jan Bovelander and Teun de Nooijer. But also one of those clubs thriving on good old fashioned […]
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