Reply To: Diary of a Season 2024-25

[Tom Molloy]

Fire Black Practice Plan -:01-02-25

Time: 16:15-17:45 Arena: Crowchild
Lines: 2 G – 6 D – 9 F Notes:
A200 – Russian Big Moves Sequence
B600 – One Touch x 3 and Shot – Slovakia U20
A300 – Moves at dots and cutbacks.
C6 – Pardy’s 1-1 to 3-2 – Wally – U18 F
D100 Two Second Game – College
D400 Game – Random Numbers – U15 G
D202 – Two Thirds Ice Game – Jokers Behind Nets
E1 – Two Shot Shootout – Czech Youth
Sprint Skating
Team Cheer

First practice since Dec. 19. 3 F 1 D 1 G missing because of spring team tryouts. They should have tryouts in their season, not outs. Didn't do team play with players gone. Planned a practice with a lot of touches and game situations and finished with a short fitness skate. We play the two other Calgary teams this weekend.

It showed that we haven't had a full team at practice since mid December.

Fire Red plays a heavy game taking the body and crashing the net. We were the better team first period. Second was even and third was our worst period of the season. Our D zone coverage was really poor and we looked confused. We still had a chance late in the game but couldn't get the tying goal. They lost to Southern Alberta on Sunday.

Fire White is more skilled and faster than Red. Beat Red Deer on Saturday. The game was basically even the first two periods and we dominated the third outshooting them 14-4 but didn't score and missed the net a lot on our great chances. We shot ourselves in the foot by not managing our stick and took a hit to the head and tripping along with slashing the goalie. Ainsley scored two pp goals. Our pk was not stopping on pucks or doing defensive skating effectively. A few times didn't cover the point on pinches and they got some 2-1's. Outshot them 38-24 but you have to score some goals.

Our mantra is 2 or less GA and 3 or more GF. We did the first part not counting the EN goal.

Lots of good things happened in game two 110 passes, good 1-1 coverage and our D zone was much better.

All of these things are fixable and we will practice them to get back to the way we played in December winning 6 straight. The league is so close that it is the team that plays the right way and has discipline who usually comes out on top. Talent in the three Calgary teams is basically even.
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Fire Black Practice Plan – 01-07-25
Time: 18:00-19-15 Arena: Village Square
Lines:13 F – 7 D – 2 G

A300 Individual moves and cutbacks
B6 – 2 Pass-Double Zig-Shot x 3 x 2 – U15 GF
B600 One Touch x 2 – Diagonal C U18 W
C3 – 1-1 and 2-1 x 2 – Pro
DT400 – Two Net Game – C U18 W
T2-4, D4 – Reilly Team Play Rotation
F – Conditioning skate
Team cheer

Attachments

• Fire Black Practice 01-02-24.pdf (460 KB)
• Fire Black Practice 01-07-25.pdf (399 KB)

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