Reply To: Games to teach the 4 Game Playing Roles

[TomM]

Thanks Paulie,

I had no idea how little a player did in practice until I was confused about the drills we were doing at university. I got there from after rushing from work and was confused about some of the drills. Jeff Horne was doing his Masters in AT and had a monitor on players hearts and a video focsed on them with a heart rate in the top corner. I asked him for th video's so I could figure out the drills.

I watched them and couldn't believe how little a player actually did in one practice and this was run by a great coach who will be the Canada Jr. coach this year in the World's.

I read things from other countres and then timed a lot of practices on my own and the results are consistently between 7-11 min of activity per hour.

You are correct that players need rest in gamelike situations. When they are handling the puck or practicing other ind. offensive skills they really don't need rest. Just a lot of pucks. Intense things need about 3 times rest to one time work.

So when you warm up everyone should have a puck. If you are working on passing skills there should be one puck and two players all passing in pairs all over the ice. (not line ups). Players should be allowed to shoot against the boards or on the net. All at once.

Why do we need to do line ups all the time. When in a hockey game does one player have the puck and do things alone whithout pressure.

When I went to elementary school in the 50's it was drill and practice. In the 70's all education drifter toward WHOLE LEARNING. Sports are still stuck in the old and ineffective DRILL AND PRACTICE METHOD. It was proven to be ineffective in teaching school subjects and it is TRULY ineffective in teaching hockey or any other sport.