Practice September 30

Mental Health meeting then a 30' ice time.
Chaos puck handling in nzone while goalies stretched.
Shots from 3 lines.
Zig zag skate x 3 with agility, passing and shots.
Carolina 2-0 to 3-0 weave
Russian scrimmage

Change and 45' of spin class.



Practice October 1

Finnish warm up where the D-F-G have one section of the ice.
Two pass with various rules.
Passing overspeed and catch and release shots.
Continuous 2-1 and 2-2
F and D break into groups for 15' skill work.
2/3 ice game with Jokers
Shootout.

Meet in room and give out team swag.

Assistant coaches ran the next practice as I went to Bemidji to see their new facility and meet the coach of the women's team and watch a Div. 1 game.

Practice Sept -18

We prepared for 3 home exhibition games this weekend. Thursday vs. U of Calgary, Friday vs. Olds College, Saturday vs. U of Lethbridge.

We have two of our top forwards injured and will miss three players on Saturday with two captains on the gold team and one playing soccer and the coach would like another which would leave us with 13 skaters. We have to see how many healthy players we have after the first two games.

Team ended the three games 1-1-1 and played well 8 of the 9 periods. We worked really hard and our team play was good. We need a lot of work on passing; both the pass and the puck support. Overall I was pleased with where we are with a month of practice before our first league game Oct. 18.

Our practice focused on passing skills and puck support for an hour and then we did spin for 45'. One player was cut to finalize our roster.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AukXg5gWoW-9hcdaYcGA_TDVz7kRgg?e=9qQwc5 is a link to a video of our game vs. U of Lethbridge.

Practice 09-11-19 and 09-12-19

Played in a tournament after only three practices. Three games in 22 hours. It gave me a chance to watch our ten new players.

We have 3 returning players out with injury including last years MVP who hurt her knee water skiing and another got hurt second period of the first game. We also have two veterans on the college golf team and they missed the first two games in a golf tournament, then drove almost three hours to make the last game. So played without 3 of our top 5 players.

We played with 9 forwards and 5 D. Ten played their first college games. We had five good periods and four weak periods. We ran out of gas the third period of games two and three. No wins but lots of good things happened. Other teams had structure and full lineups. We will be ok after about ten practices to establish our systems and good playing habits and improve team fitness.

We don't play our first league game until mid October, so we need to use our time wisely.

I have the coaching staff and players to do it.

Practice One and Two

We started with a team meeting where everyone introduced themselves, I told them about what kind of team we would practice to be and we went over some of the things we need to get done right away.

The goal is for everyone to get a feel for their skates and the puck plus work on individual offensive skills and lots of game situations.

Practice Two is designed so I can run it myself as Mike who always can come has to go to meetings with the big boss of Canada who comes once a year. Jim said he would try to get there but an alleged criminal needed a lawyer and he couldn't leave. It is 4:30 practice and Kailey and Melissa are at work.

The practice went well. We did Wally's breakout sequence up to 2-0 with the goalies passing and one timers at the far end. I introduced the Four Chamber Attack which is used in the NHL and all higher levels of hockey now instead of the traditional offensive triangle. We played games with good habits and skills such as goals only count on one touch shots.