Daily Drill Section Fourteen

[Tom Molloy]

D200 – Small 3-3 Power Play Game – Pro W

Key Points:

All passes and shots are one timers. Follow through at the target and you will hit the net. Play 30-45”.

Description:

1. Nets are on the outside of the middle circle.
2. Each team has one player in front to their net and a player on each side.
3. Coach pass in a puck and try to score with one touch shots and passes.
4. Play 45” and rotate players.

* Move into open passing lanes and have the stick back ready to shoot or pass.

* Keep score.

https://www.facebook.com/518555930/videos/pcb.688098405433293/10159336382535931/

Attachments

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• D200 – Small 3-3 Power Play Game – Pro W.pdf (154 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

I started studying International Hockey in 1977 when George Kingston brought in international coaches to do a two week 40 hour course each July at the U of Calgary. He organized it during Stampede Week so these coaches could experience the Western Canadian culture. George was the coach of the university men's team and Dean of PE. He spent a year traveling around the world and staying in places like Russia to study the international game and then moved on to the NHL as an assistant and then co-head coach of San Jose with Bob Murdoch. I attended during all nine summers the course was held.

This week I am going to put together forum posting featuring drills and games from various countries to compare coaching styles. Yesterday was women's hockey and today Finland. The subject fits with the site as our first book is 'Hockey Coaching The ABC's of International Hockey. I have also been lucky enough to go to Finland to present, run hockey schools, go to seminars and visit my good friend and IIHF Hall of Famer Juhani Wahlsten.

The pdf. at the bottom has links that you can click on to open the Forum postings of drills, games and articles that demonstrate the Finnish sports culture.
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Finland Practice Techniques

These practices are either done by Finnish players or run by coaches from Finland. They run excellent practices.
Finland Jr. Team Practice
Floorball: Off ice game used in Scandinavia
Understanding the history of International Hockey
Why are Finnish Goalies So Good
Off-ice Training With Finnish Youth Players

Comparison of Practice Styles
Comparison of practice techniques from U20 to NHL teams, to NHL prospects to European pro’s.

Open the pdf. and all of these titles are links that take you to the Forum posting that has diagrams, descriptions a video link and a pdf. with everything that can be saved.

Most of the players in the U17 drills above were on the Finland U20 Team that just won the 2016 World Championships in the final vs. the Russian U20 team who demonstrate the drills a few postings below.

Attachments

• Finland Practice Techniques.pdf (356 KB)
• Female Teams Drills from Tom Molloy.pdf (437 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
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[Tom Molloy]

Coaches may wonder 'Why focus on a specific nations practice styles.'
The other hockey nations in the top group don't have near the amount of players that Canada and the USA have so they have to do a fantastic job of developing the players they have. Canada and the USA have about 500 000 players each. Sweden and Finland about 50 000, Russia less, the former Czechoslovakia had about 80 000 and Slava Lener who heads Czech hockey told me that combined the Czech and Slovaks have 32 000. The other countries in the top group have less than 10 000.

So they have to do a great job when they practice. As Erkka Westerlund told me years ago, 'we can't cut an 11 year old player because he is a late developer. We have to develop each player to the best of our abilities.'

I started paying attention to how other nations practice and this is an example from the Czech Republic.
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The PDF at the bottom has these same titles and links that can be clicked on and take you to the Forum posting with the drill description, diagram and video link

Czech Repubublic Practice Ideas
Hockey Story Worth Knowing

Gustav Bubník hockey player imprisoned in the Communist era.

Open the pdf. and all of these titles are links that take you to the Forum posting that has diagrams, descriptions a video link and a pdf. with everything that can be saved.

Attachments

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• Czech Repubublic Practice Ideas.pdf (278 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

Russian Practice Methods

The Russians do the best passing in practice that I have seen. Their point shot practice with switches is a key to the power play they use that switches from high to low, spread to 1-3-1 Diamond to Overload. I coached in Austria with Vladimir Jursinov who was with Tikonov during the Soviet domination of international hockey and was head coach in the 98 Olympics and a dominant figure in Russian hockey now. So a few of the drills are his but non Russian teams are doing them.

Open the attached pdf. at the bottom and click on the Blue Title and it will take you to the Forum posting with the diagram, description and video link on the hockeycoachingabc.com site. Click on the YouTube link and it takes you to the video.

Attachments

• Russian Practice Idea – You Tube.pdf (452 KB)
• Russian Practice Methods.pdf (546 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

Swedish Coaching Methods

Series of Video Clips with English Sub-titles

A – Equipment and Skating Technique – Video Clips
S – Skill Technique – Video Clips on Technique – Sweden
Defenseman Offensive Skills – Sw
Puck Handling Skills – Sweden, Russia, Finland

Open the pdf. and all of these titles are links that take you to the Forum posting that has diagrams, descriptions a video link and a pdf. with everything that can be saved.

Attachments

• Swedish Coaching Methods.pdf (267 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

Youth Hockey Drills – U15-U18

Open the pdf. and all of these titles are links that take you to the Forum posting that has diagrams, descriptions a video link and a pdf. with everything that can be saved.

Attachments

• Youth Hockey Drills – U15-U18.pdf (204 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
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[Tom Molloy]

Slovakia, Swiss, Danish, Canada U20 Practice Ideas

These are drills and games from other U20 teams. Everyone uses the same basic practice formations that we code in the ABC system.

Attachments

• Slovakia, Swiss, Danish, Canada U20 Practice Ideas.pdf (433 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
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[Tom Molloy]

Practice Ideas Summary

The pdf. is a great summary of the individual and team skills that have been posted on the site. It may be the easiest way to access the material and see if it is something you want to use in your practices.

Hundreds of drills and games. Drills include game situations like 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, etc. Passing, shooting, skating, specialty teams.

Attachments

• Practice Ideas.pdf (337 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

Pro Practice Methods

These practice activities done by pro teams around the hockey world. There are about 220 examples and are written up in the ABC Coaches Forum. If you click on the link it takes you to the posting which has a description, diagram and video link as well as a pdf. With all of these things that you can save if you like the practice idea.

I am not going to paste the list here because it is very long with about 230 drills and games. They are in the attached pdf. and when clicked on they take you to the Forum posting. I will also attach a list of pro drills that are only in the video section and many of them haven't been written up yet.

Attachments

• Pro Practice Methods.pdf (477 KB)
• Video Postings April 20-July 20.pdf (378 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

Comparing International Coaching Methods

Coaches,

This is a summary of the over 1000 international drills and practice activities that were posted over the last week. It was a huge project. Each drill takes at least 3 hours to prepare and post and it is a compilation or over 10 years of putting the pdf.s together. The goal is to help coaches so they can help the players 'Enjoy the Game.'

I have spent quite a bit of time the last few weeks putting together pdf.s that compare how various groups practice by putting links to the Forum postings of drills and games. Each posting has a description, diagram, video link and a pdf. that can be saved.

Most of the gold winning Finnish Jr. team were here two years ago with the U17 team that won the Mac's. The Russian U20 team is the one they played in the final last week. If you save the PDF.s at the bottom of each posting you can click on the titles to go to the drill.

Drills from High Level Female Teams
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/

Finland Practice Techniques
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7743

Czech Republic Coaching Ideas
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7744

Russian Practice Methods
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7745

Swedish Coaching Methods
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7746

Youth Hockey Drills – U15-U18
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7747

Slovakia, Swiss, Danish, Canada U20 Practice Ideas
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7748

Practice Idea by Topic: 1-1, 2-1, etc.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7749

Pro Practice Ideas
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/forums/topic/daily-drill-section-fourteen/page/12/#post-7750

YouTube Playlist – Current Playlist Constantly Updated
https://www.youtube.com/@tommolloy4792/playlists

I have been updating the pdf's to incluce the YouTube link. I post them at this link.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AukXg5gWoW-9h55OSul3JZSMaQyTNg?e=Y8gmtY

There are over 1000 different drills, so the easiest way to use them is to open the pdf. and save it. Then open the pdf. on each topic and save it. Open the various links to Forum postings and if you like the drill or game then save the pdf. at the bottom of each posting.

Attachments

• International Coaching Methods.pdf (177 KB)
• ABC Coding Explanation.pdf (1 MB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

For those having problems opening some the video files.I posted them on YouTube. The titles without a YouTube video have a video on this site only.

The pdf. contains the same links to YouTube and the links to the drills posted on the Forum.

Czech Republic and Practice Ideas on YouTube

Attachments

• Czech Republic Practice Ideas = utube.pdf (428 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

Russian Practice Ideas – You Tube Video

These videos are from the 2012 and 2016 Russian U20 team practices, presentations made by Russian legendary coach Vladimir Jursinov, ‘Jursi’ running drills in Austria where I coached with him or and a few with my team doing his drills that I have no video of. There are also some video clips that have been sent to me from Kevin Sullivan. You can see the ‘joy in playing’ when Russians practice. The coaches love to play in the games and shoot around after practice. There is one clip of Datsyuk leading his teammates in some stickhandling after a Detroit practice.

Attachments

• Russian Practice Ideas – You Tube.pdf (546 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

T2 – 5-0 Breakout Options Routine – Russian U20

Key Points:

Coach alternate dumping the puck to each side and also rim or shoot so the goalie handles it. Practice the various breakout options. D to D, D to C, D to W, go, reverse, counter, wheel.

Description:

1. Two units of five wait near the red line to break out of each end.
2. Coach at each end shoot the puck in.
3. Unit of 5 break out using various options.
4. Pass to the coach.
5. Coach shoot the puck in and the other unit break out.
6. Continue rotating and practice the various options.

*This is a good routine to do at the start of practice to review the breakout and get everyone involved.

https://www.facebook.com/518555930/videos/pcb.688240598752407/10159336874520931/

Attachments

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• T2 – 5-0 Breakout Options Routine – Russian U20.pdf (171 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'

[Tom Molloy]

International Ice Hockey Drills – U17

These drills are from a U17 camp July 2015. Most have a description and diagram and if you open the attached PDF and click on the title it will take you there. They all have a YouTube link to the video. The ones where the title is not a link haven’t been posted on the Forum as yet.

Open the pdf. and click on the Blue title to take you to the Forum posting of the drill or game.

Attachments

• International Ice Hockey Drills – U17.pdf (459 KB)

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
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[Tom Molloy]

The drills below are examples of the North American U20 coaching style. Lots of 'command style' with the coaches very involved in all aspects of each drill. The U17 drills posted above are also from NA practices and are very coach centred. If we wonder why there is little creativity in the game now we only need to look at how we train players to be Robotic.

International Ice Hockey Drills – NA U20

Attachments

• International Ice Hockey Drills – NA U20.pdf (201 KB)

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