I haven't had a lot of time to do anything on the site lately. My team is in the Mac's tournament and I have spent a lot of time with the Finnish U17 team and family things. I am heading out to watch them play their third game. I hope they get more competition. They won the first game 9-1 and second game 13-0. The key is that they pass the puck. Kalle Kaskinen the head coach and I work with Juhani Wahlsten on the ABC philosophy and we coach basically the same way except passing is part of the Finnish hockey culture and he doesn't have to detrain players to stop trying to carry the puck 1 on 5 through the other team and retrain them to pass to a player in better position and give support all over the ice.
I was at the Flames-Oilers game with them last night and they have prepared a Youtube video of the shinny game on Christmas Day and promised to send it to me. When I get it I will post it here.
My team is 1-1 in the tournament. We played the defending champs game one and lost 1-2. We had about 4 scoring chances in the last minute with our goalie out. Yesterday we came from behind 0-2 and won 3-2. We play again tonight.
You Tube video of our Pond Hockey game on Christmas Day.
As a follow up the Finns won their next games 9-2, 7-1 and 7-1 on the final vs. the Swiss U17 National Team. They just play the game a better way. They make the puck work for them with the 'pass first' philosophy.
'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'