T3-Body Contact Clinic - Edge Skills

Jeff Hill teaches body checking principles.

Key Points:
Start with a good athletic position of knee bent, back straight, seat low with the head on top of the shoulders and not hanging over the ice. Follow this instruction with 1 on 1 drills and transition games.
The practice was run by Jeff Hill with a group of 12-13 year olds.

Description:
A. Partners bump
1. Hook wrists and bump standing then skating. Come back using other shoulder.
2. Skate apart one stride then back and bump
B. Player in the middle bump everyone around circle with each shoulder.
C. Angling both offensive with leg in front and defensive with leg behind. Get hands up on the glass to protect yourself.
D. Practice skating into the corner and making a fake then carry the puck out.
E. 1 on 1 into the corner and try to score.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080720174243862

https://www.facebook.com/tom.molloy.5836/videos/10159325153115931

T3 - Body Contact Clinic - Edge Skills
https://youtu.be/75e3KL47oXU

B6 - 3-0 Weave-Regroup at Far End - U17-Pro

Key Points:
Principles: Pass while skating and then follow the pass and take the ice behind the puck carrier.. Fill the 3 lanes. Skate to the “big ice” between the dots when you get the puck. Pass to the outside lane, skate to the inside lane.

Description:
A. 1 pass to 2 and follow the pass.
B. 2 skate to the big ice, pass to 3, follow the pass taking the ice behind.
C. 3 pass back to one, follow the pass.
D. 1 regroup with 4 and 1-2-3 fill each lane.
E. 4 pass to 1 or 3 on the strong side.
F. 1-2-3 weave the same way and attack with a triangle and shoot at the oringinal end.
G. 4-5-6 follow and repeat the other way.

http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?s=20130125095322120

B6 3-0 Weave-Regroup at Far End – U17
https://youtu.be/ItwsFCb-bkg

https://www.facebook.com/518555930/videos/pcb.794123934830739/10159758893775931

NHL Players
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20141025100818703

B6 3-0 Weave - Regroup - Attack - Pro
https://youtu.be/tjcdjroz3L4

https://www.facebook.com/518555930/videos/pcb.794123934830739/10159758893265931

A200 - Chaos Puck Handling - Youth

Key Points:
Make moves, protect the puck, go hard on the whistle. Designate moves, add pucks, play keepaway, use ball, multiple pucks, etc.

Description:
1. Carry a puck and protect it while skating in random directions. Stay in the zone.
2. Go hard for about 5" on the whistle and slow down on the next whistle.
3. Coach designate the move to be practiced, i.e, tight turn when you approach someone.
4. Exchange pucks-pass with eye contact.
5. Spread pucks around which also must be avoided.
6.Keepaway-coach take a puck away every 10".

Two video demonstrations:
http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080722090625893

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080722090624390

https://youtu.be/82IGJrKNBXM

T2 - B6 D to D Hinge and Switch - Pro W

Key Points:
Pass back to the coach after each one of these sequences. Coach should pass to one player and after the sequence get a return pass then pass to the other player. This is a controlled breakout after a regroup or any situation with only one forechecker.

Description:
1. Coach in the neutral zone pass to a player coming from the corners.
A. Player skates to mid ice and passes to partner who hinges wide and up ice.
B. Player skates to wide lane and pass to partner who supports in mid ice behind.
C. Player skate to middle, pass wide, get return pass in middle.
D. Player skate to middle, partner skate behind for a pass and switch sides. From there any of the other options.
*Pass back to the coach after each of these exercises and then add players who regroup with D.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20110407093426412

https://youtu.be/ISrR_VShA-M

This is a video on roles 1 and 3 - checking and escape moves from Finland.
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B500 - Angling and Escapes - Finland

Key Points:
Angle approaching at the back shoulder with "Body on Body and Stick on the Puck".
Defensive angling pin and teammate pick up the puck, and on offensive angling seal the player off and take the puck.
Learn to approach at the back shoulder-not the puck. On offense cut back when the player angles at the puck.

Description:
1. Angle at back shoulder, press into boards with the inside leg between the legs.
2. Angle at back shoulder, press into boards with the inside leg in front.
3.Offensive check by bumping the defender who is angle checking and then accelerate
4. Pass to self off the boards or back of net.
5. Pass back to inside skate edge and back between the legs.
*Drive to the net and use a "heel to heel slide like Crosby, Selanne and Koivu."

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080719114133299

T2-C3- 5 on 2 Breakout vs a Trap x 3 - RB Pro

Key Points:
This is total hockey. The 2 players back, usually D fill 2 lanes and one F comes back to fill the other. The farthest F stretches to the far blue line and the other forward supports from the neutral zone. Constant switching of lanes and depths.

Description:
1. Start 5 vs 2.
2. On whistle repeat 5 on 2.
3. Again repeat 5-2 on the whistle.
4. Attack 5 on 2 on the third rush.
5. Repeat other way with new players.
* Fill the low 3 lanes 2 D and 1 F.
* One F stretch to far blue line.
* One F stretch thru nzone.
* On attack always 4 in the scoring zone.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090730123904459

T2-C3- 5 on 2 Breakout vs a Trap x 3 - RB Pro
https://youtu.be/JW2uDLVPgag

C3 Breakout to 2 F's and attack 3-1- RB Pro

Key Points:
One D must join the rush to the 60% scoring area inside the top of the circle. Get shots and fight for rebounds.

Description:
1. Blue F1, F2, D1 attack 3-1 vs red D2.
2. On whistle Red D2 get a new puck and pass to red F3 or F4 and join the attack vs blue D3.
3. Continue the rotation with the defending D making a breakout to forwards giving passive support from the high slot area.
4. Add a forward to make it 4 on 1 or a D to make it a 4 on 2 attack.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090728110104331

https://youtu.be/afJYS9fuKCA
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Making a Situation Drill into a Transition Game

The natural progression after the coach has controlled this team play drill with a whistle is to modify it a little to create a transition game. Now the coach has turned the decision making over to the players AND the critical WAR ZONE play of fighting for rebounds and making the breakout pass under pressure with good support happens.

How?
1. Only one puck and NO Whistles (unless everyone is messing up) the coach talks to players in the line up instead.

2. Options
A-new players coming in-F3, F4, D3 give passive support from the top of the circle and D2 pass to them.
B-combine active and passive support. F3-F4 backcheck and support D2 low and D3 is passive until the breakout pass is made, then defends 1-3 vs F3-F4-D2.
C-active support with everyone. F3 and F4 backcheck and make a low 3 on 3, D3 be part of the attack supporting from the point and ready to defend the 3-1 the other way by F3, F4 and D2. This would make a 4-3 in the zone and a PP situation. If the D doesn't join the attack then an even situation would have been created. i.e. 2-1 in the nzone and 3-3 at each end.

Defenseman Technique from Sweden

This is a pdf they did in Sweden about how to develop defensemen. There are many drills and the videos compliment them.
The Swedes are very good in their development with proper technique.

Playing without the puck from Sweden
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/video.php?n=20080720174247387

Checking from the defensive side from Sweden.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/video.php?n=20080720161047124

Breakout options from Sweden
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/video.php?n=20080722140657916

Scoring from Sweden
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/video.php?n=20080723002524440

Transition Games

I just went through the forum posting with Transition Games and have listed them here. They all have diagrams and most have video demonstrations with various North American or Europen kid’s, pro’s or women teams that I have coached. There are a few that I filmed other coaches doing.

Coaches have developed thousands of drills that stress going through the neutral zone and attacking or coming out of the corner etc. but the game is won and lost in the WAR ZONE (slot) in front of the net. Fighting for rebounds, tying up sticks, boxing out, starting the breakout under pressure, the key areas of a game, are hardly practiced because the players must get out of the way for the next rush in the drill.

Transition games are not used by many coaches but are a natural progression from game situation drills such as a 2-1 or a 3-2. The difference is that in transtiton games the coach creates the same situation but only one puck is used and the play must be finished. In standard drills as a 2 on 1 the forwards attack a D, get a shot and maybe a rebound and go back to the line up. The D simply plays the rush and returns to the line up. Games are not like this. In a real game the forwards will fight for the loose pucks with the D who must regain the puck and make a breakout. Transition games simulate REAL game situations because both the forwards and defenders must finish the play before returning to the line up.

TRANSITION GAMES TO TEACH THE FOUR GAME PLAYING ROLES

When the players have learned the basic game situation skills by doing one way drills that work on offensive or defensive responsibility there is no transition. The next stage is to practice using the skills in more realistic situations that demand both good technique game understanding and transition.

In transition games the players work on all of the various game situations from the basic 1 on 1 skills to 5 on 6. Quickly moving from offense to defense and from defense to offense is emphasized with the theme that; “you must always attack so that you are able todefend and defend so that you can attack.”

Transition games allow the coach to create any numerical situation that happens in a hockey game and the players practice these situations under game pressure in the same zone as it would occur in a game.

Any of the game formations can be used for transition games. The cross ice, half ice and one zone games use the same rules as the full ice transition games.

HOW TO ORGANIZE A TRANSITION GAME

To organize a transition game the coach must decide what individual or team skill to work on and then devise the game. Take your time and go slowly starting first step by step and let the players do everything in slow motion so that the game is understood. It is best to begin with a 1 on 1 situation and build from there.

When the players are comfortable with the flow of the game the coach can add modified rules to practice individual or team skills. The transition game itself is like a template for teaching all the various situations in the game.

After the coach has decided what needs to be worked on and where on the ice it should be done, then who gets support during the play, determines the type of transition game to use.

In transition games you go from offense to defense and from defense to offense. The coach can create the situation by having the passive players give support to either the defense, the offense or both the offense and the defense. New players come into the play from the line ups and they must assume the appropriate game playing role of either offensive or defensive situations. As the play continues their role changes from defensive to offensive or offensive to defensive responsibilities and all playing situations: offense, defense and loose puck will be encountered.

Options for transition games.
1.Transition games where players wait in the neutral zone for a breakout pass and the play goes towards the other end. This isolates situations in the neutral zone and at each end (game situation role one, two, three and four.)
2. Transition games where the attacking team gets support from teammates joining the play (game situation role two.)
3. Transition games where the defending team gets support from back checkers (game situation role four.)
4. Transition games where both the offensive and defensive teams have supporting players join the play.

D1 One Pass in Each Zone - U18 F

Key Points:
Close support, skate to open ice with the puck, give a target.

Description:
1. Play full ice either in shifts or all on the ice at once.
2. There must be at least one pass made in each zone. If not the other team gets the puck.
3. Controlled scrimmage so everyone stop on the whistle for coach input.
4. With shifts in a D100 game pass back to the goalie on the whistle.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=2011032414361323

https://youtu.be/EhbNMhICMSs

C3 - Goalie Setup-Breakout-Regroup - 2 on 1 – Pro

Key Points:
Goalie stop and set up the puck then come back the same way. Forwards give a target and move through the neutral zone quickly.

Description:
1. Coach or player in line rim puck behind net.
2. Goalie stop and set up puck for D1.
3. D1 make a breakout pass to a F1 or F2.
4. F's regroup with D2 in defensive zone.
5. F1 and F2 attack 2 on 1 vs D1.
6. Repeat at other end with a rim and D2 breaking out F3 and F4.

*Alternatives: From 1 to 3 F's and 2 D can do this drill. Another regroup could be added.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20110323070114796

C3 - Goalie Setup-Breakout-Regroup-2 on 1 – Pro
https://youtu.be/UPqDVtr0V1o

F - A202 - Skating for Quickness and Agility - RB Pro

Key Points:
Hockey requires quick feet and agility to change directions. Keep the knees bent and use the outside edges.

Description:
1. Skate hard from blue to red line-Stop-hard back over blue line.
2. Skate hard to red line-turn inside-tight turn and back to blue.

Alternate directions.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090805115343158

https://youtu.be/YEIVwjOl-cE

A300 - Puck Handling Nervous System Overload - Pro

Key Points:
Keep the balls and pucks within a stick length and move them around the body. Stress rolling the wrists big moves.

Description:
1. Combine using up to 3 balls or 3 pucks.
2. Use balls of different weight and bounce i.e. tennis, racquet, hockey balls.
3. Example. Start with 3 kinds of balls and after each time around replace the balls with pucks so you have 3 pucks, Each lap take away one puck and then add speed when a single puck is left.
4. When you get down to one puck shots at each end can be done.
5. Use the lines and dots as places to do various moves.

A200 Variable Goal Training - Skating and Puckhandling - U18 F
https://youtu.be/jkM2HgWjB8o

Pro Player
https://youtu.be/8TLGdZ3BMKM

B4 Rexi Pass and Replace

Key Points:
Face the puck at all times. Use pivots and turns. Give a target and call for the pass.

Description:
A. 1 pass to 2 and follow the pass.
B. 2 pivot in a circle and leave the puck for 1.
C. 1 pass to 2 in the neutral zone and 2 attack the far end and shoot.
D. 3 pass to 1 and follow the pass.
E. Repeat.

Options:
Shoot and screen, shoot and give and go with the next shooter, shoot and rebound for the next shooter. Shoot and defend 1-1 vs. the next shooter.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090813080846936

https://youtu.be/L0f9iRkZLEY

https://www.facebook.com/518555930/videos/pcb.689577291952071/10159341279320931/

B6 - One Touch x 3 Shoot-Rebound-Screen - RB Pro

Key Points:
Make one touch passes, face the puck all of the time. Hit the net and follow the shot for a rebound. Change directions every few times.

Description:
1. Leave from the blueline and one touch.
2. Low player return a one touch pass.
3. Exchange puck 3 or 4 times.
4. Player on other side repeat after the second pass.
5. Add variations like a tight turn.

http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090820232945431

B6 - One Touch x 3 Shoot-Rebound-Screen - RB Pro

https://youtu.be/JqLOzj6MFsE