I brought in some famous international coaches to talk about team play and I have sent the links to my team for review.
Flyer Team Play Video:
Girl’s and parents who are interested, at great expense I brought in some famous international coaches to talk about team play. I have also attached a pdf on penalty killing principles.
Videos:
Famous Finnish Coach Mikko talks about defensive zone coverage. First 7 minutes using a white board and then he uses a 3 dimensionsl magnetic board.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20110915091504119
Tsunami Forecheck:Jaroslav a famous coach from the Czech Republic shows how you can forecheck aggressively using the concepts of Total Hockey. 1-2-3-4-5 read and react.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?s=2011091410270183
Three dimensional description of Tsunami.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=2011091422180855
Penalty killing principles vs a power play with 2 players at the point.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20110917210616605
NHL Coach Killing vs a Diamond 1-3-1 Use Fall under. We will probably only see the umbrella and then the second F can be on one side and the D on the other side goes out.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20120521102728277
Take care,
Coach Tom
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I didn't send below to my team but added it here.
I was searching the videos for the team play ones and came across some material I did when I first started this site. It brought back some good memories of some of the great kid's I have coached over the years.
I did the first video in 1998 when I was coaching an 85 born spring team. I had them for 2 years with the agreement that we practiced a lot and only played a few tournament.
The parents agreed and we had 10 weekends where we had 2 x 90 minute practices each Sat. and Sunday andwe played one ex game and two tournaments in the 12 weeks. We finished the first weekend of July so they had the summer off. This also allowed them to play other sports. So in two springs I had them on the ice for 120 hours of practice, which is time to accomplish something.
It is probably the group I am most proud of coaching. Every player but one made at least Jr. A and four of the forwards are still playing pro.
Aaron Lee – played NCAA at Alaska and is the all team leading scorer for the Rio Grande Killer Bees. He just went to Germany to play.
Ryan Duncan – won Hobey Baker at North Dakota, his 5’ 6” 160 lbs. doesn’t appeal to the NHL. He played last year in the AHL and this year has returned to the Red Bulls in Austria.
Jeremy Colliton – won a World U20 Championship with the famous 04 Canadian Team and has been up and down between the NHL Islanders and their AHL team.
Mason Raymond – went to U of Minn. Duluth and then onto the NHL Vancouver Canucks where he has been in a Stanley Cup final and played for Canada in the IIHF Worlds.
Mason and Ryan are the two smallest guys in the transiton video. Mason grew late to 6’ but Ryan never had the big growth spurt.
Team Play Whiteboard Talk
Tom Molloy goes over team play concepts.
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080726234725123
Continuous 1-1
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090726085538618
Continuous 2-1
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090726085539822
Wanted to review all of the team play and teach face-off alignment. Fifth day in a row and we play our first game of the season Sunday, so it was a good time for an instruction practice that wasn't too intense. We polled the team asking each one to give us 4 players they thought would be good captain. It wasn't a vote but we want to make sure the players the coaches think would be the best captains are mentioned. I wouldn't want to pick a captain that no one mentioned. Coaches and players were on the same page and we announced the captain and 3 asst.
Following practice the players had a babeque and and the team met to form a 'Team Covenant'. This is one of the most important things a team can do. They set the goals and the rules themselves and we will refer to it if there are any problems in the next six or seven months. (I have attached an example from Bob Murdoch's pro team in Germany)
I have never started a season with zero exhibition games before. We play a team that won 7-5 last night and has two sisters that are already committed to university hockey for next year and got 3 points each last night.
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Result: Lost 2-3. but played well for our first game of the season. We only have 4 returning skaters and they have 10 and were a top team last year. We outshot them 36-25 but didn't finish our chances. One of my returning F's got 11 shots and one goal. They got the winner with about 4 minutes left. 5-5 we each socred one, 5-4 each one and 5-3 they scored. We have 9 F and 8 D, so I played one pair of D on wing and rotated a centre with them each period. I just rolled the lines until the last 2 minutes.
We have to get everyone into the game situations so we have to bite the bullet instead of having pp and pk units. Ideally everyone will be able to play all even and odd situations by the end of the season. In elimination situtations like playoffs or tournaments I will do more bench coaching. We have 6-97born, 6-96 born and 5-95 born skaters and only 4 returning skaters, so we are young.
This week we have M-off, T-on ice practice, W-spin class, Th-on ice, Fri.-on ice, Sat-away game, Sun-home game. So it is pretty busy.
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Flyers Practice Plan Date: 15-09-12 Time: 14:00-15:15 WMP
Lines:
8 D, 9 F, 2 G
Review system play. Backcheck take sticks.
Low dzone play Puck handling, crossovers, passing, shooting
10 min.
B6 or B4 Crossover Skating and Puckhandling
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/video.php?n=20120418155124444
10 min.
B6 Chaos 3-0 Pass and Shoot
http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20101006084345432
10 min. Review
T4 TSUNAMI Forecheck 2-1-2 Wide Pressure
10 min.
D400 Penalty Killing Practice
http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090806144359357
10 min.
D1 Controlled Scrimmage
Key Points:
Team play, face-offs, freeze play,
http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090824224310861
10 min.
DT100 Backchecking Transition Game
http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20080719141212210
10 min.
D400 Transition Game of Low Battles with Point Support
http://hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20090726102317243
7 min.
E1 Change on the Go with Pass Shootout
http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/media.php?f=0&sort=0&s=20120415181657595
'Enjoy the Game'