Few thougth about roles and training
Notice allso that when you are training role 1 you train allso role 3 and when you train role 2 you train role 4. Naturally you can practice role 1 (and a little role 2) without defensive roles. Basicly it's it up to Coach how you focus your training.
In our season plan we had 5 week sections where 4 weeks the focus was of offensive skills, roles and tactics and one week we focused on the defensive skills, roles and tactics. For example 4 weeks defensive zone attacking and then one week defensive zone defence. Idea was thateven we our focus was heavyly on offensive playing we know that our defence would develop too as a byproduct.
You can allso try to break skills in to roles. when doing a passing drill and your recieving a pass, showing a square blade to passer it's a role 2 skill. Backward skating and pivots would be role 3 and 4 skills and so on.
Role 2 practice could be like this:
1. "break out warm up" with 2/3 of a rink 1/3 for goalie warm up
- you can do this 3-0 to 5-0. pick up the puck, break out, every one touches the puck before offensive blue line.
- you can turn back and regoup from DZ or NZ and then the next group starts
- focus on how reciever make him/her self playable, is thre as stick on ice, square blade to passer and tha he/she faces the puck
2.full ice passing drill a lot of passing and recieving to get much repetitions
3. SAG, 2-2 or 3-3 with jokers focus on getting open and losing your opponent
4. recieving competition, Player has to recieve a bouncing or high pass and then score on a break away if you don't control the puck you lose your chance. you can do it like a team relay race or something like that
5. SAG 2-2 or 3-3 you can score on both goals, focus again on getting open for the pass
6. SAG or full ice 2-2 to 5-5 1-3 touch game, focus on how to greate space with out a puck.
I hope that this makes any sense to you it's quite late here.
Kai
Attached is a Planner for the first 10 practices and first 5 games. Usually I waited until try outs were finished and had some idea of what the team looked like but this is my first year using the ABC's so I am leaving some time for corrections and adjustments. All ideas and suggestions are welcome as I really want to give these boys a good time.
By the way, it's good to see that the site is back up.