Reply To: Game Intelligence / Decision Training

[RookieCoach]

HockeyGod ,

I would agree with your comments about how practise's are run these days. Last year with Atom age kids , I added games with accountability , and it was surprising how the level of play in that game picked up.

I ran a practise for a Bantam age group on the weekend , and during the game that I was running I over heard one of the players saying , " i love this game , this is fun " . The winning team cheered as the other team did lap at the end and picked up the pucks.

But here is my question for you and Tom .

Say you have a team that is weak backchecking. Always getting out numbered at your blue line and D are backing in too far as a result. This is happening time and time again.

So for a 50 min practise how would you correct this using the ABC method ?

What kind of games would you use.?

Or would you use drills with accountability to reinforce your theme of the practice.?

Most coaches would do drills with no accountability I'm sure. Players might get yelled at if they don't pick up their man , but that would be as far as it goes.

Teaching the game with games is something most coaches don't understand , as you stated in post post earlier. But I think most coaches would;d be open to giving it a try if they understood how it works.

Keep up the great posts , I'm sure yourself and Tom are getting many coaches to at least thing about an different form of teaching the game.

Thanks
RookieCoach