Reply To: Videos of the camp in the Czech Republic

[Tom Molloy]

Pops I think you will be very impressed with the off ice sessions in this video.

Petr Svoboda planned his U20 practice with me and tried transition games and some of my drills and shootout. I watched and met with him afterwards. He used to play for the Leafs.

The boy you mentioned is very skilled. The thing I noticed most about him is that he scored almost every time he shot in drills or games. He shoots to score not just to shoot and there is a big difference.

The kid's are just hockey school kid's. The difference there is that you play for a club and the coaches get paid by the club to coach or else are very well qualified and trained by the Czech Federation. The skills or skating, passing and puck handling are well developed for their age.

They do great drills and what drills teach are roles one: puck skills and role three: individual defensive skills. Drills don't work on role 2: puck support or role 4: defensive support away from the puck. You need games to work on these skills either full, sag or transition full or sag. You also need game situations to develop game sense and creativity. They brought me there to give them ideas how to teach those aspects of the game.

If you want to see great drills watch their upper level practices. Amazing flow. They also use a lot of controlled scrimmage to teach team play which is very important at the higher levels.

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