Reply To: Cougars Pounce – Clarification

[RK]

Tom , Dean , Kai,

I'm am talking about Bantam age group Rep ( Major , Minor combined) Not AAA.

Thanks for the advice. I agree with what you have said.

Again , I am not the coach just help out at practices and kind of mentor the coach. I don't make it to all the games for this team.

The game that I went to they lost . There was a lack of pressure on the puck , poor D coverage , and giving this player too much time and space. Played on back their heels Not on their toes..Propper defensive side positioning , stick on stick , stick in the passing lanes all are small fundamentals that are exposed playing good hockey teams. It shows your weaknesses.

I only asked the question for other opinions and how they would handle this situation. I have coached shortening the bench before and playing everyone fairly giving each line a role. The outcome was the same or playing everyone evenly sometimes sparked the team and gave all players confidence with their role.

You have mentioned before that in an average game-3 game phases
0 Game – loose puck 30% of the time.
1 Game – Offence 35% of the time.
2 Game – Defence 35% of the time.

If a team could take advantage of the 0 Game – loose puck situations by pressuring the puck, winning puck battles, it will give a puck possession advantage and lead to more scoring chances.
All the statistics that have been posted on this site have been very helpful on how you look at a game and how you teach the game.

RK