Reply To: Typical Practice for Midget Age

Dman, that is how I have my material organized and I like to do the individual skills required before the team play. The start of practice always has individual offensive skills but I do rotate between the 4 game playing role themes.

It also depends on the time of the season. The team I am coaching right now has good skills, they all played university hockey either in Canada or the NCAA, so a lot of the ind. offensive things are for warm up and not for teaching. I may encourage them to shoot while they are moving and follow the rebound, but I don't spend time teaching them how to shoot like I do with the skill classes in the morning with jr. high kid's.

Right now we are in training camp but only practice twice a week so I am focusing putting our systems in place. We have done dzone, the forecheck and on Monday will do the power play. We spend about 30 min. on each. I have sent them pdf's on the various things. I will attach the one I sent yesterday on the pp we will do.

It was a lot easier to go thru everything when I coached college and we practiced 4 times a week or in Austria when we practiced 2 mornings and 4 afternoons plus 2 games a week.

On another note I have suggested to the web developer Dwight that we charge a $10 fee for downloading from this site. There is only about 1 donation for site upkeep every 3 months and it costs Dwight money for space and it costs me money for the site registration. He is the computer guy and knows how to do it through Paypal. It is about 7 Euro's.