Reply To: Diary of a Season 2025-2026

[Tom Molloy]

Fire Black Practice Plan – 10-07-25
Time: 10-12-25 Venue: Village Square
Lines:12 F, 6 D, 2 G
Notes: agility with puck, breakouts, goalie training, neutral zone attack, transition-D zone coverage, low dzone, gap control, shootouts

A300 – Moves at dots, tight turns
B6 – 3 Shots, 3 Zig-zags, 3 Shots
T2 – Breakout Sequence – Wally Kozak https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17NnUSQd9B/
G – Kaylin both goalies 10', then 10’ with each – RG BO https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ESnXBeBGL/
B600 – Continuous 3-2 Regroup – Tomas https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FsmxiTik8/
DT400 3-3 Krusel Battling Game
C5-C6 – Continuous Low 2-1
C1-C6 Pass Regroup – 1-1 and 2-1 x 2
E1 – Two Shot Shootout
Team cheer in middle

B6 – Dizzy Passing https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AYHCQr5ni/
Goal vs Red Deer – https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1H8TcjLnn2/
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Played our best game vs defending Provincial champs Red Deer on Saturday. Did what we practice moving the puck, hard back pressure, battle hard. Got a 6-2 win on some great shots.
Last practice until driving to Kelowna for a tournament where we play about 5 games.

Went to Kelowna for a ten team tournament. We played 5 x 60' stop time games in four days. Our pool of five teams wasn't that strong and Airdrie and us beat the other three teams pretty easily. Played Airdrie in semi final and won 6-4. In final we played Grande Prairie, another team from Alberta and lost 3-5. Had ten bad minutes where they score 4 goals. Shots were 22-26 for them. Some of our younger players looked tired and didn't have a great game.
Got home after one in the morning and gave the skaters the day off and only goalies will practice tonight with Kaylin our goalie coach. Our season starts this weekend.
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Fire Black Practice Plan -10-16-25
Time: 16:00-17:30 Arena: Henry Viney
Notes: 12 F, 2 G, 7 D

A300 Puck Handling vs. Defender Warm-up – U18 F https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18K388yBLK/
B6 – 2 Pass-Double Zig-Shot x 3 x 2 – U15 G
B6 – Breakout 2 F Shoot – D Point Shot – College M https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AnU2xdXfW/
D4 – Two Pass-Forehand – Scissor https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1CC4SR3BQE/
C3 1-1 to 2-2 – D Join F Backcheck-Pro https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1GyNMV3ZFw/
C3 – Total Hockey – 3-0, 3-1, 3-2 – U18 F https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18caqZZo4H/
T2 – T4 – PP and PK 10’ x 2
T2-4 – Power Play-Penalty Kill Sequence
Team Cheer
Jim with magnetic board teaches 2-12- with pinch on wide rim. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14bGdjGr4iu/
Jim USA Women 5-3 Power Play https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17MUbTVwLC/
T2-4 – Specialty Team Scrimmage and Principles of the Power Play and Penalty Kill https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ap2w9FCN7/
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5 games in 4 days on weekend, so only goalies practiced on Tuesday while skaters rested after getting to bed about 1:30 Monday night after the 8 hour bus trip. Went 4-1 in Kelowna tournament, lost 3-5 in final to Grande Prairie from the Alberta northern division of our league.
Goal of practice was to improve general individual and team skills. We have to get rid of blind back hand passes and improve our passing game. I taught the players close support in the drills and they are getting better at it. Our pk let us down in the final, so we worked on that with the new pk group.

Lost 3+0 to Fire Red in the league opener. Outshot them 30-21 but gave up three breakaways that they scored on. We did a lot of good things and dominated the last half of the game but no goals.

Game two we played Airdrie. Lots of shots but no goals and were behind 0-1 until the last two minutes of the second period. We finally scored the first goal of the season and then another a minute later. We got two more goals in the third to win 4-1. Outshot them 40-9.

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