Reply To: Open thread for coaching discussion

[Tom Molloy]

Finding pro and internation drill and game ideas

Dwight Trumbower has done such a terrific job of designing this site that it is easy to find things by using the search function.

if you go to http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/index.php which is the video section of this site and then to the search function on the right and type in pro you will get about 140 examples of pro's from all over the world doing drills, games, transition games. Type in Detroit and you get about 15, Flames also works.

U18 takes you to a lot of the drills I do with my team as well as the national U18 team, U22, CW is the Canadian Women which I also label as Pro W or ProW.

Words like Finnish, Czech, Dukla, Russian, Swiss, Swedish take you to examples of European team doing training. Calgary is a great place to see all levels of hockey because Hockey Canada is based here and they have the 4 rink complex where international and pro teams practice. I also have a lot of video clips from my 20 hockey trips going to seminars, doing camps or coaching in Europe.

I didn't put pro as part of the title on a lot of them but I did on most.

You can also search for topics like passing, shooting, defensive zone play, transition games, or any hockey topic you like and the search function will find it. All of the videos have descriptions and diagrams that can be found by using the search function on the main page which finds all of the examples on the site. Each section also has a search function. There are over 800 practice drills and games, so coding and labeling makes finding them a lot easier.

Basic Review of the coding system.

A – skating and individual skills.
B – Partner and group skills. Lots of passing and scoring drills as well as individual defensive skills.
C – Situation skills where the offense is trying to score vs. defenders.
D – Full ice and small area games.
DT – Transition games which take the skills practiced in the C drills and put them into one puck game situations where the play is completed and you transition from defense to offense and offense to defense.
E – shootouts and contests.
F – conditioning skating.
G – Goalie skills.
O – Off-ice training.
T – Teaching team play. Drills and games that have a lot of direct coach input. Dzone, power play, penalty kill, breakouts are the kind of topics.

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
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