Reply To: Clearing the defensive zone

Just an update to share:

We seem to have somewhat reduced the turnovers in our zone but not entirely. It looks as if our players revert back to "panic form" when under pressure. We have only had a couple of practices and games to re-enforce the methods we want to employ such as the D moving to open ice and making a tape-to-tape pass. The forwards seem to struggle with facing the D during defensive zone coverage and re-groups.

My players really like the transition games I have introduced with the help of this site. Can you suggest a game we can play that would help with some of the issue we have? Or perhaps introducing a rule to some of the games? Our next practice would have a goalie trainer using 1/3 of the ice for the first hour and then the next 20 mins would be full ice.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.