Quote by: TomMDean, now the challenge to you.
How would you have run the ice times. There are 39 skaters and about 6 goalies and they have two ice times in the morning and one together in the afternoon.
If you look at the video section with pro practices the next one is a pre game skate that Detroit did. It was a good session and the next few videos are examples from the prospects camp a few years ago. Even though a lot of the drills were very good it was more like a hockey school with skill stations and drills under no or little pressure. I am sure the players that were there didn't need that kind of instruction. They all would have gone to many hockey schools and camps growing up. So comparing those practices with the one yesterday is a giant step forward.
I personally would have used a lot of the same games but kept track of scoring and give aways and run it like a tournament and then continue the standings the rest of the week. At the end of the camp you would know who was making the plays and who was managing the puck.
Quote by: TomMAs pumped as I was yesterday about the productive and competitive practice the prospects did yesterday - I am disappointed today. A different coach ran the practice and did a whole bunch of flow type drills that in themselves were ok but to do one after the other of basically warm up drills with robotic repittion was non productive and I don't see how it followed the posted theme of one puck drills and competition so the team could evaluate 'Game Sense' which they say they are looking for. The American league coach ran the last exercise and it was a one zone game.
I will post the practice and you can compare one day to the next.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=2012071112422387
I would like to read coaches opinions on how you could make this session into a more realistic and productive ice session by adding tasks, i.e. after shooting defend the next rush or shoot til you score or covert the drill to a transition game and use only one puck.
The Drill and Practice model was thrown out of educational systems in the 60's. When will hockey coaching convert to Whole Learning.
Tom, I will post how I would run the camp as soon as I have time. It's 'daddy daycare' time for the summer so I have to pick my spots...
But I agree with your comments about why run a hockey school at this level? Skills are important - most of these guys hire a skills coach in the off season - but nobody 'at the top' seems to know how to train Hockey Sense. I do and that is what I would focus on during this 'development camp'.
I will provide my outline of how I would have run this camp later.
I feel strongly that without designing situations / games where you can track some stats - the very least scoring (winning vs. losing) and holding players accountable - then it is time well WASTED!
And yes, what a big step backwards today with the session. More EVIL DRILLS with seemingly little purpose, no scoring stats, no accountability, little evaluation use, and worse of all - very little transferability to the game!
I couldn't believe how much time they spent at the board, or stopping the 'drills' for corrections and how little time they spent 'doing'. B-O-R-I-N-G! Shouldn't they be trying to maximize the players reps to learn? Don't players learn through both making mistakes and by doing it right? So why stop it when they do it wrong?
When we will learn that you must train under game-like conditions to compete in a game?
Probably around the same time we throw out the Drill and Practice model and adapt the Game Sense model! So... what decade will this happen? Will I still be alive then?
I am combining a few postings here. The first is What Is Hockey? What happens in a game should determine how we prepare players during practice. I then compare the on ice practices of two pro coaches at an NHL prospect camp. One uses the ABC method of drills, games, transition games and the other simply goes from one drill to the other.
Which is more effective, more enjoyable, more game like?
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What is Hockey?
This is an article about what actually happens in a game and how we need to duplicate it in practice to develop players who can Play Hockey.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=506
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Comparison of Juuso’s ABC model of practice as opposed to the Drill Model.
I posted this about two Flames Prospect Camp practices. The first was identical to the kind of practice Juuso or I would run and the second was a different coach who simply went from one drill to the other.
I am fired up. I just watched the Flames prospects practice. It is draft choices, free agents and minor league players practicing in two groups. Here is what I saw.
Two colours only with half the F and half the D in one colour. Exception is when they put the joker in a black jersey.
Drills were allowed to conclude naturally.i.e a goal, frozen puck or the D passed to the coach.
Cross ice games.
Game one transition game with passive support and teammates joining attack.
Game two-2-2 but allowed to shoot on either net.
One zone games at each end.
Full ice one puck transition games.
Game one; 2-2 with active support then the rule added to regroup on a whistle and continue.
Game two continuous 3-2 with passisve support. One puck only.
2-2 regroup with the joker when you regain the puck and the joker moves around but must stay below the dots.
Here is the video of the ABC style practice. It is 30 minutes long.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20120710152604109
GREAT ABC PRACTICE FLAMES
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This is the comment and link to the second practice using the Drills Model.
As pumped as I was yesterday about the productive and competitive practice the prospects did yesterday - I am disappointed today. A different coach ran the practice and did a whole bunch of flow type drills that in themselves were ok but to do one after the other of basically warm up drills with robotic repetition was non productive and I don't see how it followed the posted theme of one puck drills and competition so the team could evaluate 'Game Sense' which they say they are looking for. The American league coach ran the last exercise and it was a one zone game.
I will post the practice and you can compare one day to the next.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=2012071112422387
'Enjoy the Game'