Reply To: Teaching support in all zones

[Kai K]

We teach the big principles.
Good offense creates to good defense and good defense creates good offense.

• this requires a five players in compact but balanced form
• e.g. offense in NZ F1 and F2 creating 2v1 and F3 takes care of the balance by stying on the weak side, Ds supporting the attack close keeping the five players compact. So on the turn over we tight and ready to defend with close gaps etc
• on the defense F2 and F3 need to backtrack with speed from inside the dots to keep the defending unit tight. so when we get the puck we are close to each other => so we can attack with short fast passes with speed.

5 men should always play the "same game". By this I mean that e.g. in break out situation when our D picks up the puck and try's to play up our F's are still skating back towards our DZ.

This of course demands a lot skating and work.
I hope this makes some sense.

Kai