Reply To: 2014 Booklets of ABC Drills and Games

[Tom Molloy]

DT – Transition Games Booklet

Transition games can be designed to work on the Game Situations that you do in C drills or to create full ice or SAG game like situations that a coach works on with the T – Teaching the Game exercises.

Transition Games use only ONE PUCK and players change on the go to create the game situation from 1-1 to 6-5. Erkka Westerlund, this years Finnish Olympic Coach (Bronze) and also the 2006 Olympic Coach (Silver) spent six months with Hockey Canada in Calgary and produced a booklet and video on Transition but it never got much traction here. I am starting to see some transition games in practice but they are usually with passive support.

In my opinion they are the best way to practice game situations with the benefit that they 'run themselves' and free the coaches to talk with players as they return to the line-up. It is also easy to have proper w/r ratios by simply calculating how many players divided by the numerical situation.

Attachments

• DT 2014 Transition Games Booklet.pdf (18 MB)

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