Reply To: Diary of a Season 2016-17

[Tom Molloy]

Fire White Practice Twenty-six and Twenty-seven

Fire White Practice Twenty-six

The goal of this practice was to review team play; the middle drive, power play and low defensive zone coverage. We also reviewed the slap shot technique and played a quick 2-2 backchecking transition game.

Wally Kozak was at the practice and worked on low coverage 1-1 to 3-3 as well as tactical controlled skating.

We have had about eight practices since our last game and have another Friday night before playing the team that is in first place twice this weekend. We are both undefeated but they have played two more games.

Fire White Practice Twenty-seven

This practice starts with a two puck game and then flow passing with shots. We move to a one zone power play game the late Badger Bob Johnson used. It is a 5-1 with the defender going full out and changing each 10'. We then do a 2-1 full ice transition game with the D joining the rush. We introduce the offense on the 6-5 with the goalie pulled. Practice finishes with a change on the go shootout and then rebound. The centres take face-offs in the middle during rebound.

We played the other undefeated team on the weekend and played really well but lost the first 0-1 with 32" leaf in overtime We outshot them 32-30 and the game was really competitive with both goalies playing great. Next game their goalie stoned us and we lost 1-4. We played really well, especially in the second and third. Shot's were 28-21 for us. Theirs by period 11-3-7 and ours 7-11-9. They had a really good first period and scored two. We took too many penalties and our wings were going into the corners in our end the first and that gave their D a lot of time to shoot. We need to review Defensive Zone coverage, work on boxing out and taking sticks in the slot.

This week we have core training Monday, team play scrimmages with the AAA team Tuesday and Wednesday, practice Thursday, Friday off and games Saturday and Sunday. So it is a full week.

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• Fire White Practice 10-27-16.pdf (976 KB)
• Fire White Practice 10-28-16.pdf (1 MB)

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