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Fire U15 Practice 10-3-23 and 10-4-23

U15 Fire Practice 10-3-23

Assistant coaches couldn't come so Cassie Campbell helped. Two goalie coaches were there. Kids hockey usually doesn't have enough players to do a lot of things I coached with college or pro teams and we always have at least 12 F and 8 D. I invited 2 extra D and 1 F which gave us 12 F, 8 F and 2 G and allowed me to expand my practice scope.
We just played 4 games in a three day tournament last weekend and leave Thursday morning on the 8-9 hour drive to Kelowna (detour around construction in Golden) for a 5 game tournament. So team play is a focus for this weeks two practices.
Beautiful drive through the mountains starting with Banff National Park and into British Columbia. Kelowna is in the Okanagan Valley which is one lake after another with vineyards and orchards on each side of the highway. So a lot nicer drive than through the Prairies when it is -30 and snow blowing across the highway.

Date: 10-03-23 Time: 20:15-21:30 Arena: Crowchild
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Notes:

Skating warm up
Cutbacks Overspeed
Power Play Penalty kill
Middle drive
Small HS with Middle Drive
Multiple one touch passes
Reilly pp game

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Fire Black Practice Plan Date: 10-04-23 Time: 19:00-20:00 Arena: ECTAS
Notes:
In 5 games it is a good chance we will kill 5-3 or have a 5-3 pp. We also may be in a situation where we pull our goalie. I want to introduce how we want to play these game situations so we are all on the same page.

Striding and tight turns
Zig zag x 2 – 3 shots-3 passes – agility skate
1-1 and 2-1 with regroup x 2
Low spread pp
6-5 offense –
Goalie pulled 5-3 pk
Reilly pp game