Reply To: Game Intelligence / Decision Training

[Kai K]

RedWingFan wrote:
What are everyone's thoughts on sports that carry over to a smarter hockey player?
(In my opinion, the players that I have coached who have played a good amount of basketball, have better game understanding and anticipation than the players I have coached who have played a good amount of soccer)

Maybe, but the "laws of the game" are same in hockey, basketball and soccer. They all have 4 playing roles, you need to win space to score. To my experiense players who played only hockey are not so game intelligent than someone who has played some other team sport too.

Today we had only 5 forwards, 2 Ds and one goalie (It's spring break). We did (I think you can call it?) decision training.

– Nz regroup + scoring 2-0 + D shot from the point
1. D passes to one of two Fs who is open (when D is skating to puck i covered the other F)
2. Same situation but I told to Ds that I will this time try to read where they are passing the puck, so they should make fake pass or no look pass.

Edit:
I'm so slow with my english typing 🙄

Kai