Reply To: Love for Hockey coaching ABC’S

[Tom Molloy]

rcmat, I am in Boston now and listening to the Calgary news channel to learn about the worst floods in the cities history. My family are all ok as we live on top of a hill but the river valley is flooded and the Saddledome has water up to row ten or more.

Here are two videos about the game with D joining the rush and F backchecking. You can progress to sending random numbers to support so the players have to read and recognize the situation and then communicate to solve the problem.

The Transition PDF Booklet has the diagrams, description and video links. I will attach it here.
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DT100 Continuous 1-1, D Join Attack and F Backcheck

The extra players are on the boards in the neutral zone and join the play when the puck crosses the blue line to make it 3 on 3 in the zone. There is a 2-2 for on the initial rush and then one F from the defending team and one D from the attacking team join the play players come into the zone and they go the other direction on transition. Great way to practice the D joining the rush, identifying coverage, 3-3 in the zone, man to man coverage, backchecking and attacking with speed.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/dt100-1-1-d-join-f-backcheck/

DT100 Continuous 2 on 2 With D2 Joining the Attack and F3 Backchecking

The extra players are on the boards in the neutral zone and join the play when the puck crosses the blue line to make it 5-5 in the zone. There is a 3-3 for on the initial rush and then the new players come into the zone and they go the other direction on transition. Great way to practice 5 on 5 team play, especially if you only have 16 – 19 players.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/dt100-continuous-2-on-2-d-join-attack-f-backcheck-2/

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DT100 Read-Act to Situation 1-1 to 3-3

This is a transition game my asst. coach Sean Kibyuk ran that requires decision making by the players and is a great example of how transition games can be used to teach the game and free the Coach to coach. The video is about 4 min. and has captions.

Key Points:
Transition game where the players must read the ever changing situations and act to make them even. Transition happens on a turnover, a goal or the goalie freezes the puck. The closest player support to create an even situation.

Description:
A. B1-2-3 attack R1-2-3.
B. R5-6 support the attack and B4 the defenders.
C. On transtion B4 attack R4-5 and B1-2-or 3 support the attack making it 2-2.
D. Blue Coach sends B5 to support the attack.
E. Red Coach sends R6-7 to support defense.
F. On transition R6-7 attack B5 and B1 or B2 read the outnumber situation and backcheck to make it a 2 on 2.
G. Coaches continue to randomly send 1 to 3 players to support.
H. Players read the situation and support to make it a 1-1, 2-2 or 3-3 attack.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/dt100-read-act-to-situation-1-1-to-3-3/

Attachments

• DT – Transition Game Booklet.pdf (12 MB)

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