Reply To: Season Plan

[Iceman]

Hey Pops – Tom,

Pops, I for one would be interested? Tom, love to see how you set up your seasonal plan – heck I am going to "steal" some of that if you don't mind. I would be interested in your critique or criticism as well, this is what I have done with my seasonal plan.

We are fortunate to have 4-5 days a week on ice, 2 of those days are shared ice times with another team – (this is for Pee Wees). Starting in November we start league games, so our ice practices deminish a little bit, but we do pick up some other ice times from other teams in our association as they pick up scrimmages or are playing in tournaments.

The first part of the season:
Oct 5 – Nov 30 Goals & Objectives
•Implement our dryland training – usually before our ice times
•Team Meetings – 2
•Parent Meetings – 1
•Team party / get together – 1
•Coach Meetings – 2
•Individual Technical Skills, Individual
Tactics, Introduce – Team Tactics, Team Play

Mid season:
Dec 1 – Feb 15
•Continued dryland
•Team Meetings – 2
•Team parties / get togethers – 1
•Coach Meetings – 2
•Tournament play – 3/4
Continue to work on individual & team
development. Add team strategy

Late season and into playoffs
•Continued dryland & chalk talks
•Team Meetings – 1
•Player & Parent Meetings – 1
•Team party / get togethers – 1
•Coach Meetings – 1/2
Continued development, strategy
continued and implant tournament goals

We also use our dryland time for video (kids love to see themselves playing – we use this more as a team bonding time as well), teaching our team tactics out in a parking lot and or in a gym – not always taking away ice time for the DZ coverage, Forecheck, Breakouts, etc.

Thoughts? Ideas?