Reply To: Diary of a Season 2011-2012: The Plan

[Robert Mattson]

hockeygod wrote:
rcmat, I emailed you… hope to talk to you middle to end of next week.

Dean, thanks for the tryout tips. The 1 v 1s were extremely effective at exposing strengths and weaknesses. There were not enough goals scored to really use goals as an objective measure, but it was easy to see who could win a battle and make a move with the puck. I also did some 1 v 1 v 1 where all three players went out at once against each other and could shoot on either goal. That required some extra stickhandling and kept fewer players standing in line. After making subjective evaluations based on the 1 v 1, 2 v 2, and limited 5 v 5 scrimmage, I looked at the times that my helpers recorded for skating drills, and that data matched perfectly with the performance in the competitive drills/scrimmage.