Reply To: Diary of a Season 2025-2026

[Tom Molloy]

Fire Black Practice Plan – 03-03-26
Time: 18:00-18:15 Venue: Village Square
Lines: 5 D, 11 F

A00 – Puck Handle 3 Circles B
6 – Shots from 3 lanes
B6 Machine Gun
G – Kaylin with goalies
F 3-3 Keepaway x 2 in Nzone
B2 – D Point Shots with deception
B6 – D Shoot – F Block Shots
C6 – 1-1, 2-1, F Backcheck D Join Rush
D100 – Game – at least One Pass Each Zone
DT400 – 2-2 Krusel Battle Game x 2
E1 – Shootout Race
Cheer in middle

Practice video
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HPYaLNS8o/

Playoff series vs. Airdrie was hard fought. We came back late in the third period on Friday, down one goale. We got two power plays and scored on both to win 4-3. Saturday the game was even, both teams got about 30 shots. We didn't get a goal on ten power plays and got beat 5-1. Sunday we played well in first, got outplayed in second and changed back to the 2-1-2 forecheck in third and came from behind one goal and score three on the power play. They got another and we ended up winning 5-4 and on to the second round and will play Red Deer.

Fire Black Practice – 03-05-26
4:00-5:30 Henry Viney

A300 – Puck Handle and Tight Turns
B2 – Transition Skate Shots
B2 – Shoot – Give and Go – Shoot
T2 – Tomas Regroups – Dump in Breakout
C2 – 1-1, 2-2 Puck Battles and Attacks
C3 – 2-1 – Double RG and Attack
C3 – Total Hockey – 3-0,3-1,3-2
T4 – High Press – Diamond Review
T2-4 – Reilly PP Game
D202 – 2/3 Ice game of 4-4
Cheer in middle

Video clips of drills
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DcpVwnYGw/
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Played two games vs. Red Deer. They beat us 3-5 and 2-3. We are already in the Provincials as host and would be anyway based on season result. We experimented with players in various positions and used both the 2-1-2 and 1-3-1 forechecks. I didn't coach much and focused on watching. More of our players contribute when we play the 1-3-1 and we can practice it so the lw and rd get more involved in the attack.
We got overpowered off the wall twice and in front of our net on four of their goals. Second game we should have won as we missed two wide open nets and didn't score on a breakaway.
We tried the low spread pp but it wasn't as effective as our star shaped 2-3 pp.
Provincials go March 19-22. Five games in four days, so everyone has to play.
Were supposed to practice Sunday but a blizzard made driving dangerous, so I cancelled it. We have T-Th-SAT-M-W practices to prepare.
Play Red Deer Thursday, Lloyminster 11:30 and Calgary Red 5:15 Friday, Peace Country Saturday and third-fourth play bronze game first and second play for gold second game Sunday.
Go Fire Black

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