Reply To: Pee Wee Breakouts

[Tom Molloy]

This is by Paulie but for some reason the sight won't let him post; so I am posting it for him. PS – Paulie I need a diagram to understand.
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Ice man,

I agree with both Tom's and Ice Sage's comments.

I like your last line re: working on on-ice awareness, as well as the skills. For me, the break-out is all about that.

In practice I like to use drills/games that require the player to do something else after passing. I constantly stress this. One such tweak I use for break-outs is adding a second, then third puck to the Five man continuous break-out drill ( where the 5-man-unit–6 man unit because the goalies need to involve themselves– collects the dumped puck, breaks-out, gains the red-line, dumps, and goes to the sideboards to rest while a waiting 5MU activates)

Confusion and tentativeness will be readily apparent. Don't despair.

The idea is to attempt to get the boy's to dump the two/three pucks as close as possible timewise, to teach support, and to allow the players themselves to problem solve– to understand the big picture. Done at the start of practice, it creates a need to know, getting the boy's focussed on the practice objectives. I would then do the Murdoch break-out routine, or a similar exercise that would repeat the desired patterns/timings. Now return to the game: 1 puck, 2 pucks, 3, 2, 1 puck, 1 puck with the player dumping forechecking, 1 puck with the two players not dumping doing the forecheck. Reverse the process again, if desired.

Really works wonders. Hope you find this useful.

Cheers,

Paulie

I can provide drills if you email me.
pf1flyer@sympatico.ca

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