Reply To: Repeat practices

[Tom Molloy]

I coached with Desjardins for 6 years at the U of Calgary and I think the team play practice was basically the same week to week. We practiced breakouts, power play, pk etc. the same way. The individual skills drills were a little more varied. I coached with Tim Bothwell against Daum and we had basically the same practice on the various days of the week. We always did the Webby pre game the day before the weekend series.

I play with some guys who played for Drake at the U of A. They didn't say that about him but they did say that everything they did was with a puck and had a purpose.

I played for Bob Peters in Bemidji and our practices were basically the same each week. M-T we always had a 30 minute bag skate. I remember that well.

In Salzburg wtih Page and Routasalainen the pro's had skill practices on Mon. and Wed mornings but the afternoon practices had a lot of various ways of working on both individual and team play skills.

I am sure both Bothwell and Desjardins have a lot more variety in their practices now. I think that practices are generally much better than they used to be.

All are successful coaches. They recruited skilled players so the fundamentals took second place to team play.

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