Reply To: Diary of a Season 2025-2026

[Tom Molloy]

Fire Black Practice Plan – 11-25-25
Time: 18:00-19:15 Venue: Village Square
Notes: New lines and worked on dzone coverage.

A300 – Moves at Dots and Tight Turns
B2 – Shot-Pass-Shot x 3 x 2 x 2
B6 – 2-0 x 2 Cross Pass x 2 – Finland U20
G – Kaylin Goalies
D2 – Four Station Skills and Games Station
T4 – Defensive Zone Skating
DT400 – Perry Pearn Game Rotation-Defender Sticks Over
C3 1-1 Both Sides – C-D No Sticks
DT100 Continuous 2-1 with D Joining Rush
Team Cheer

Video
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Fire Black Practice Plan-11-27-25
Time: 16:00-17:30 Venue: Henry Viney
Lines: 10 F – 6 D – 2 G

A200 – Vladimir Jursinov – Big Moves Jim lead
A6 – 3 Shots, 3 Zig-zags, 3 Shots
B6 – Machine Gun
D4 – Clear Zone to Attack – Rule-At Least One Scissor
C600 2-1 x 2 – Finish Play – Pro
C3 – 3-0 – 3-1 – 3-2
PP 1 – one end PP 2 other – Switch at 10’
T2-4 – Specialty Team Sequence
Team Cheer
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Busy weekend with three road games vs. Northern Division teams. Roads can be brutal this time of year but the snow held off until later in the night we got back. First 3.5 hours to St. Albert, 45 minutes to Sherwood Park and 2.5 hours to Lloydminster then 6 hours to get home Sunday night.

All hard fought games.

Beat St. Albert 4-1 and we played pretty well and got good goaltending.
Next day we lost to Sherwood Park in OT. Came back from two goals down and they scored a fluky goal off a stick to win 3 on 3 overtime 3-4. Both teams got about 35 shots which is way too many against for us. We drove to Lloyd after the game.

Sunday played Lloydminster and got behind 0-2 then 1-2, then 1-3. Tied it 3-3 in third then 4-3 and finished off the 5-3 win with an empty net goal.

Overall we played hard and scored a lot but gave up too many scoring chances and goals against. Our mantra is to give up 2 or less goals and score 3 or more. We are outscoring our mistakes right now averaging about 4 GF a game and a little more than 2 GA per game.
10-2-1 so far and we have 3 in the league top ten scoring.

This week at practice we will change up the lines to make them more balanced and work on team and individual defensive skill and continue getting better in all the individual skills like skating, passing, shooting, etc. Better players equal a better team.

We changed the PP and PK with a new PP 2. All of the centres are now on PP1, so we will have the wings and all the D kill penalties. We went over the PP and PK at practice. Everyone now has been on both PP and PK

Bus company moved departure time to Red Deer up an hour. Snow lately but clear out today. Plan is to meet with every player on the bus trip.

Played pretty well vs. Red Deer winning 4-3 and are 11-2-1 so far. They are a very good team that moves the puck and well coached.
We were good 5-5 but didn't score. We allowed a couple of late goals on scrambles when up 4-1 and need to box out and take sticks in our slot. Our specialty teams were really good. Three pp goals, 2×5-4, 1×5-3 and one 4-4 goal. We had new lines with Molly and McKenna moving to centre.
We need to create better angles checking in the neutral zone and prevent attacker walking off the wall in our end. Passing and receiving are improving but still need a lot of work.
The 2012 players are getting used to the speed and size in the league and contributing more each game. This is a key to any success we will have in playoffs. Overall we did a lot of good things.

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• Fire Black Practice 11-27-25.pdf (469 KB)

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