17 -1 loss

When we got beat ugly. We would go through the game before the next practice. meybe from video if possible or on white board. And we would involve players into conversation. Beacause players too have some kind of idea what went wrong or what was good. Then we would leave it behind and focus to things ahead.

Kai

Drink heavily!!!

Try some Duff beer…. or rye.

Seriously, if the other team was better, that's life. But if your work ethic is / was poor, more battle and competition drills. Hold the kids accountable in practice… But I wouldn't bag skate them. Maybe a disguised bag skate in the form of continuous backcheck games and other physically demanding situations to 'remind' them – but it needs to have a purpose.

Learn from it and move on.

Some days you are the bug and other days you are the windshield!

What is your opinion, should the practice after the game reflect the game you had?

I really would like to have some other views on this. Because we followed our weekly plan quite to the letter.
our week looked like this: (this was U18 team)

Thursday: off-ice + on-ice (team play)
Friday: off- ice + on-ice (pre game team play)
Saturday: Game
Sunday: Game
Monday: off-ice (aerobic/recovery) + on-ice (skills / low tempo)
Tuesday: off-ice + on-ice (individual tactics/ sag etc)
Wednesday: no practice

We would do some adjustments depending on the games but the monday was always low tempo skills.
So any thoughts on monday sessions or how do you see the whole week program

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Kai

Kai, when I have a team that practices regularly as I had in college I follow this plan. The first 20-30 minutes in every practice focuses on role 1.
Monday, Game playing role 1, practice individual offensive skills and skating skills. Dryland after practice with activities like spin class on bikes or plyo's.
Tuesday: Game playing role 3, individual defensive skills. Checking techniques and situations up to 3-3.
Wed. Game playing role 2, team offensive skills. Breakouts, power play, cycling etc. Situations 4-3 to 6-5
Thurs. Game playing role 4. team defensive skills, dzone, pk, battling. Situations 3-4 to 5 on 6.
Game Fri. Sat.
Tom

Hi all,

Our weekly plan goes something like this (changes possible as usual but the general guide line is as):
Mon:
– Off-ice: strength (for example; 8-10 x 2 x 10 one-legged squats w/ 2.5kg weight)
– On-ice: skills (for example; skating, skating w/ puck, puck handling and etc.) + SAGs
Tue:
– Part of the team is at practice w/ club coaches, rest are resting or hopefully playing something outside (pihapeli?) 🙂
Wed:
– Off-ice: speed (for example; spurts w/ decision, one-legged skips or jumps, plyometrics)
– On-ice: skills (for example; passing drills) + SAGs
Thu:
– Off-ice: agility or "movement frequency" (for example; agility ladder drills as specific to skating as possible w/ high foot speed)
– On-ice: game situations (for example; 1-1, 2-1, 1-2 and etc. since Thu is half-group only practice = repetitions)
Fri:
– Off-ice: mobility (for example; dynamic mobility w/ some "animal" movements, bear, crab and etc.)
– On-ice: high tempo drills and game (for example; 2-2 in small area like corner w/ keep-away or scoring, high speed passing drills and anything from 3-2 continuous to a 5-5 game)
Sat/Sun:
– Game(s)

Has worked in my opinion though Mon is sometimes a hard evening for the boys…

hockeygod wrote:
Koutsi97,

What age group / skill level is this plan for? Curious to know before I can put it into context….

Sorry for the late answer. Games Sat and Sun, practices Mon, so no computer time for me. These are '97 born so is it U14 boys, we have about 30 skaters and 4 goalies divided to two playing teams but they practice together Mon, Wed and Fri. Except the boys who practice Tue with the club coaches, they have the Wed as resting day.

hockeygod wrote:
Thanks Koutsi97!

Are these considered elite U14's? Or average / club level; or recreational level?

Understandable that Mondays are tougher with this schedule.

Good to see the weights aren't too heavy as they are still at the age where the PHV (Peak Height Velocity) – or growth spurt – for males – is just occurring.

One of the SISEC kids was tested last week (he tore some muscles off his hip) and the MRI results showed that even though he is 17 years old, he still has some growing to do… he is only 5'7" and 145 lbs. The Doctors couldn't tell him how much he will grow, but said the growth plates hadn't fused together yet. So he is happy he will grow; time will tell if this is a career-ending injury (for hockey.)

Some of Finnish hockey clubs use doctors to determine the junior players biological age before they start strenght training with bigger weights. (I wish we had this system too in our club)

Kai

hockeygod wrote:
Some of Finnish hockey clubs use doctors to determine the junior players biological age before they start strenght training with bigger weights. (I wish we had this system too in our club)

Kai

In a perfect world, this service would be available to us at a reasonable fee and on a reasonable timeline! But it is not the norm here… one has to guesstimate!

I found it odd that this SISEC kid (at 17) still has growing to do! He is probably at the one end of the Bell Curve for growth / age. This is not the norm, but again, chronological age doesn't always line up with biological age… individual differences are just that – they vary from one to another!

The best thing to come out of this discussion is that more coaches become aware of when PHV occurs (stereotypically speaking); knows not to kill the kids with heavy weights during this delicate time; and is aware of individual differences.

Biological age vary +/- 4 years in one age group. That is makes coaching teenagers challenging. you need good planing fpr your oof-ace training so that everyone gets right and safe training.