Reply To: Transition Games

[Tony]

RookieCoach wrote:
Coaches,

Tom has posted a number of transition games in the Daily Drill Section Eleven and also in the sections 1-10 .

Judging from all the views that the Daily Drill Sections get from coaches compared to the other topics , these transition games must be used or at least tried in practice.

Coaches ,
Are you as a coach using these transition games.?

Have you tried them and had success ?

Any of these transition games that really seem to work well with your team?

If you go back in the forum and read the discussion on Statistics- Used for Critical Area's it must make you think as a coach I should look at these DT transition games.

Any thoughts from other coaches ?

RookieCoach

I'm using them with my 01 birth year Pee Wee A team in Michigan.

I have used the 1 on 1 and tried the 2 on 2 one puck transition drills. Last night I tried the specialty teams 5-4 in the offensive zone drill.

There is definitely a learning curve for the 01s and those who are not mentally engaged are not getting the drills. I have talked to the players about how the learning the next level of hockey is as much mental as it is physical. I also find the transition drills somewhat hard to explain because of the free flow and continuous nature. I try to explain entry into and exit from the drills.

I'm an assistant on a higher end 99 birth year Bantam A team. They really picked up the 1 puck transition drills. We have played them 1-1 2-2 3-1 3-2. They enjoy and work hard playing them and quickly pick up on the substitution which is key to the continuous nature of the drill.