“…There is the need for psychological training of ice hockey players at an early age. Ice hockey players need to control their emotions in stressful situations, to be able to relax and compete enthusiastically (Chase, Magyar, & Drake, 2005;Daroglou, 2011;Gould, Dieffenbach, & Moffett, 2002;Kaplánová, 2018). Although there are studies investigating coping strategies to manage stress (Vidic, Martin, & Oxhandler, 2017;Young & Knight, 2014), as well as studies investigating anxiety of athletes in competition (Hashim, Shaharuddin, Hamidan, & Grove, 2017;Ramis, Vilandrich, Sousa, & Jannes, 2015) and a level of self-esteem of athletes (Mannarini, 2010;Vasconcelos-Raposo, Fernandes, Teixeira, & Berterlii, 2012) to the best of our knowledge our study is first work which tries to explain how anxiety and self-esteem affect coping strategies to manage stress in hockey.…”