Reply To: Diary of a Season 2016-17

[Tom Molloy]

Fire White Practice Twenty-three and Twenty-four

Practice Twenty-Three

We spent the first 35' doing the individual skills; skating with the puck, continuous flow passing, D hinge – forward mirror and up x 2. Then game situations starting with a full ice drill, double regroup 2-1.

We then focused on puck support and good habits. 3 on 3, change on their own full ice game with the 2" rule, so puck support and getting quickly into the triple threat position are critical. After 10' we did the same thing 4-4. We added the rule that goals must come off one touch shots to promote going to the net.

We then played 4-4 with the rule there must be at least one pass made in each zone. After about 7' we added the rule that there must be a neutral zone regroup before entering the offensive zone. This is to make players aware of the support behind them plus it is a great way to practice regroups.

We finished with a 2-0 shootout game with two nets on the goal line.

Practice Twenty-four

Gaston Schaeffer come to do his second session of skating. The first hour they did the start, medium stride and long stride. They also did controlled skating turns. Gaston then worked on the back to front Mohawk turn and the front to back Chocktaw turn. The players then shot in the 3 shot, 3 pass, 3 zig-zag drill to warm up the goalies and to practice the Mohawk and Chocktaw. We then had everyone take turns playing both offense and defense full ice where the defender skates forward, chocktaws to backward and then backward stride. We started with no puck and then with a puck. We did another drill to practice the same skill. They are outlines in the practice plan.

Saturday morning we had team pictures.

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• Fire White Practice 10-20-16.pdf (1 MB)
• Fire White Practice 10-21-16.pdf (773 KB)

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