The challenge however is this. The starting point is the indentification of stress in our athletes. Then coaches should evaluate whether the stress level, known as arousal, is ideal or excessive. In complex sports like hockey concentration, timing, and puck control are effected by high levels of arousal. The key is to manage stress so that it becomes an ally not an enemy.
Management involves controlling behaviours and making stress more consistent.
Through this control we can then afford our players the opportunity to perform in an optimum environment every game. Every player has a different learning style and a corresponding sensory dominance. Either our sight, our hearing, or our feelings are used. For example some people hear something and are able to process it, and then transpose that information into useable knowledge. This is not to say that we use only one sense exclusively over others because everyone does use a combinations of these messages to learn and handle stress.