Daily Drill Section Thirteen

[Tom Molloy]

C600 – 2 on 2 x 2 – Pro

Key Points:

Defenders play tight gaps, forwards create a 2-1 on one of the defenders, attack with speed. Defense box out and take sticks after the shot.

Description:

1. Forwards start from the four blue lines and D from the red lines.
2. F1-F2 cross and drop and attack D1-D2.
3. After the first attack D1-D2 skate to the neutral zone
4. F3 – F4 cross and drop from the far blue line and attack 2-2 vs. D1-D2.
5. Repeat with F5-F6 attacking the other net vs. D3-D4.

*To add a component F3-F4 could follow the rush and get a pass from D1-D2 then cross and drop at the far blue line and attack D1-D2.

*The same sequence can be used 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2 vary the situations randomly.

*Give a time to score like 10” on the first rush so the players fight for rebounds and make a second play before the whistle. This adds lots important of components to the drill.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/c600-2-on-2-x-2-pro/

https://www.facebook.com/518555930/videos/pcb.829053021337830/1248011655637217

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• C600 – 2 on 2 x 2 – Pro.pdf (190 KB)

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DT100 – Read and React to Game Situations – U18 F

Key Points:

Communicate the situation and play accordingly. Everyone plays all positions.

Description:

1. Players line up along the boards in the neutral zone with one team on each side of the red line.
2. Supporting new players leave from the red line when the puck crosses the offensive blue line.
3. The coach sends out from 1 to 3 players from each team in both directions.
4. The coach can create any situation he wants to work on in the zone from 2-2 to 6-5.

*It is really important for the players to read and call out the situation.

https://1drv.ms/v/s!AukXg5gWoW-9hfEaS4-mnYlYAA1yRA?e=gGD9hI

DT100 – Read-Act to Situation 1-1 to 3-3 – U18 F

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• DT100 – Read and React to Game Situations – U18 F.pdf (191 KB)

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10 good tips for our youth coaches!

by Tommy Boustedt, – Swedish National Team

Hockey-Sweden is dependent on many participants for continued success. We are disproportionately successful on the international stage in comparison to the country’s size and population. A main reason for the success story is the annual efforts of all the Swedish youth coaches.

We humans often want to emphasize some single intervention or some single person when we try to understand and explain the reason and the background for success and successful achievements. Unfortunately, it’s not so simple. It is more about all the peoples’ hard work together with the right guiding principles and the right objectives.

Without all of our youth coaches’ everyday work, we would never have been a top nation in hockey. Sweden is currently number 1 on the IIHF’s rankings of the world’s best hockey nations. Unbelievable! But – if we want to keep ourselves there, there is no opportunity to sit back and take it easy. On the contrary, we need to increase the pace/ to raise the bar.

The vast majority – well, almost all – of the Swedish youth coaches are volunteers and unpaid. In spite of this the demands from society are many times higher than those previously on such hired and trained teachers. With this column, I want to pay tribute to the amazing Swedish youth coaches, while hopefully providing some good advice for the coming season.

10 good tips:

1 / Make a plan for next season. Plan how much and what you want to practice. Training Planning is important from Tre Kronor Hockey School and all the way up. Use the Swedish Ice hockey Association’s “Ice Hockey’s ABCs” as help. There are many useful and good guidelines on how to plan the season.

2 / Gather parents and players and go through how you have planned the season. It’s always good to be clear and tell what the season will look like. It builds a basic foundation in the important relationship with the parent group. In this area there are good parent education materials to use. They can be found on Swedish Ice Hockey Association’s instructional site “Hockeyakademin.se“.

3 / Add a lot of time to practicing hockey’s basic skills. The five key basics are; I) skating, II) puck handling/feints, III) passing/receiving, IV) shooting/goal scoring, and V) checking/checks. If these areas are not learned during youth hockey times, one may not get it again in adulthood! So – a lot of technique/skill training! Lots of suggested drills are available in the Swedish Ice Hockey Association’s educational materials.

4 / Also practice technique/skills “off-ice”. Work with imitation of skating and skating jumps, dribbling and passing wooden balls, practice shooting on the shooting platform, practice on checking and battling drills. Do not forget the useful and fun street hockey. Where not only techniques/skills are developed, but also the game concepts and game understanding.

5 / Start with strength training early. Preferably from 7 years of age. When we talk about the right kind of strength training, not “bodybuilding” at the gym. Please use your own body weight as resistance. Professor Tonkonogi’s research in this area has led to a whole new approach to weight training for children. More detailed advice can be found in the Swedish Ice Hockey Association’s educational materials. Check on “Hockeyakademin.se.”

6 / Work a great deal with games in various forms. Scrimmage on the whole rink, in the end zones and in small areas are good drills. Play 5 on 5, but also for example 3 vs. 3 and 2 vs 2. Use various conditions such as two pucks, direct/touch passing, direct shot/one-timers to finish off the play, etc. The Swedish coaching legend Åke “The Professor” Lundstrom said and wrote in the 60?s that scrimmaging is the best hockey drill.

7 / Creating an environment where players feel joy of playing, skating fun and where you have fun together. It’s no secret that learning works best in an environment where you have fun. Try as a coach to think positively and act positively. Emphasize what is good, and teach the kids to praise and encourage each other. Everyone needs praise. It is underestimated, and works better than other hocus pocus.

8 / Talk a lot of hockey with the players and encourage the players to talk a lot of hockey with each other. Discuss and explain solutions to various game situations. Listen to the players and learn yourself. Use tactical boards, and the resources available for them. Explain drills and educate the players theoretically in why you are practicing this or that, and what happens in your body when you are working in a certain way.

9 / Teach the players to compete. Use many drills with competitive elements . Relays, shooting competitions, tournaments in small team games, technique/skill courses based on time limits, battling drills on the ice and off-ice, penalty shot competitions, etc. It’s not negative to battle and do their best to win, but it is important to learning both how to win and lose. The effort is more important than the result. Teach the players to do their best and not worry about the outcome.

10 / See to it that all players have an individual development plan. It’s every Swedish players right. Before the season then the coach should sit down with each player and draws up a plan for the player’s development. The plan will, for instance contain the player’s strengths and parts to develop in terms of techniques/skills, tactics, physical capacity, psychology, nutrition, games, etc. Furthermore coaches and players together should set up objectives for the different areas. The plan is evaluated and followed up on a few occasions during the season. For more info, see Hockeyakademin.se.
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<This article was supplied and translated from Swedish into English from my coaching colleague, Kevin Sullivan (USA). It is very timely with the start of a new season upon us. Thanks Kevin! – DH and TM

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[Tom Molloy]

C600 – 4-0 Regroup – 3-0 – 3-2 x 2 – Pro

Key Points:

Middle D jump up to take the shot on the first rush. Attack with speed and support from all three lanes.

Description:
1. Start with a neutral zone regroup F1-F2 with D1-D2.
2. F1-F2 attack the net and the middle D join and shoot the trailer pass.
3. F3 start a 3-2 rush with F1-F2 vs. D1-D2.
4. D3-D4 follow and get a new puck to regroup with D1-F2-F3 in the neutral zone.
5. F1-F2-F3 attack 3-2 vs. D1-D2 a second time.
6. Repeat with F4-F5 regrouping with D3-D4.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/c600-4-0-regroup-3-0-3-2-x-2-pro/

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• C600 – 4-0 Regroup – 3-0 – 3-2 x 2 – Pro.pdf (110 KB)

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B600 – Regroup with D 2-0 x 2 – Detroit

Key Points:

No need for whistles as the players can see when to start. Face the puck, pass hard, give targets, shoot and follow the shot and stop at the net.

Description:

1. Forwards and defense leave from diagonal four blue lines.
2. F1 at each end pass back to D1 and mirror D1.
3. D1 skate across and pass up the far wing to F2.
4. F1 and F2 attack the net from both ends.
5. Start at the other diagonal blue lines and F3 pass to D2.
6. F3 mirror D2 across the ice and attack 2-0 with F4.
7. Keep this rhythm alternating sides.

* Option: Have the D join the rush and get a trailer pass. If there is a group less than 18 you may want to go one group at a time and then the D could join and get a pass from the corner to shoot while F's screen.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/b600-regroup-with-d-2-0-x-2-detroit/

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• B600 – Regroup with D 2-0 x 2 – Detroit.pdf (190 KB)

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T2-C2 – Neutral Zone Forecheck – Turnover to D and F – Attack 5-2 – Pro

Key Points:

Face the puck, give a target, isolate a wide defender, attack with speed, head man the puck, middle drive

Description:

1. Players are lined up on one side.
2. One set of D at each blue line.
3. F1-F2-F3 start in the neutral zone and regroup with D1-D2.
4. Defense hinge and then pass and turnover the puck to D3-D4.
5. D3-D4-F1-F2-F3 attack 5-2 vs. D1-D2.
6. F4-F5-F6 repeat and regroup with D4-D5 who turn it over to D3-D4 and they attack 5-2 in the other direction.
7. Change the drill so that the D now turn over the puck to the forwards who quickly attack 5-2.

*Focus on making a quick transition to offense and having all 5 in on the attack.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/t2-c2-nzone-forecheck-turnover-to-d-and-f-attack-5-2-detroit/

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• T2-C2 – Neutral Zone Forecheck – Turnover to D and F – Attack 5-2 – Pro.pdf (157 KB)

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[Tom Molloy]

ABC's of International Hockey Level 0-1

This is the progressive program that Juhani Wahlsten and myself designed for the Austrian Ice Hockey Association. I have replaced the German text with English. There is a logical progression of skills but what makes it unique is that the program also has a progression of good playing habits and game understanding.

Level 0 is the starting point and begins with a plan to teach 'non-skaters' how to move in all directions on the ice.

Video of Level 0 and level 1

http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/album.php?aid=36&page=1

ABC's of International Hockey: Book 1 (Digital copy of Book 1)

http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/album.php?aid=11&page=1

These levels are designed to be read in the two page mode with the text on the left and diagrams on the right.

Attachments

• ABC Book 2014 Level 0.pdf (7 MB)
• ABC Book 2014 Level 1.pdf (9 MB)

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Hockey Coaching ABC Level Two

This level introduces the skills of puck handling, passing and shooting.

'Games to Teach the Game' with Small Area Games, Multi-Puck Games and Games with Modified Rules are outlined as well as many ways to divide the ice for efficient practice.

Short video clips demonstrate the skill drills and games. (these were done when Dany Heatley who is the big guy in red and white was playing at Wisconsin.)

http://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/mediagallery/album.php?aid=44&page=1

This level is what really separates this program from others because it works on good habits and hockey sense as well as the mechanical skills.of skating, passing, shooting, etc..

These levels are designed to be read in the two page mode with the text on the left and diagrams on the right.

Attachments

• Austria – Coaches Manual ABC of International Hockey.pdf (4 MB)
• ABC Book 2014 Level 2.pdf (16 MB)

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Hockey Coaching ABC Level Three

Level 3

The first and third playing roles are worked on at a more advanced level. Level three includes intermediate passing and receiving,shooting angling and defensive side practice with drills, games and contests that isolate these skills in realistic situations.

Puck handling with the head up, seeing the puck at all times, playing the man always while in one on one defensive situations are the basic individual skills needed before team play skills can be developed.

The four game playing roles up to the three on three siutation are the focus of the team play teaching. D games stress the second role of supporting the puck carrier.

These levels are designed to be read in the two page mode with the text on the left and diagrams on the right.

Attachments

• Austria – ABC's of International Hockey Level 0-1-2-3a.pdf (5 MB)
• ABC Book 2014 Level 3.pdf (27 MB)

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ABC's of International Hockey Coaching ABC Level Four-Five-Six

The individual skills of the first and third game playing roles are practiced at an advanced level with body checking skills being emphasized. Game playing role 2 'offensive support' is the focus during the team play drills and games. After completing levels 0-3 the players are now skilled enough to work on more advanced team play. Defensive zone coverage is introduced and the players become more specialized in their positions. Game situations have more transitions where the players must read and act according to the constantly changing situations.

(This is a program that not only focuses on both the skills of hockey (what and how) but also on the 'why, where and when' of the game.)

ABC Transition Book Levels 5 and 6

http://1drv.ms/1p1vekF

These levels are designed to be read in the two page mode with the text on the left and diagrams on the right.

Attachments

• Austria – ABC's of International Hockey Level 3b-4-5-6.pdf (4 MB)
• ABC Book 2014 Level 4.pdf (19 MB)

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[Tom Molloy]

My coaching friend Mike Tschumi showed me this drill/game before we played men's hockey on Friday. You can do it as a drill with many pucks or a game with one puck as I prefer.
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DT400 1-1 to 2-2 Angling Game

Key Points:

Attack with speed and go to the net hard. Defender fight for the defensive side with the stick on the ice.

Description:

1. A1 start at the red line.
2. B1 start against the boards at the top of the circle.
3. Battle until a goal, frozen puck or puck is out of the scoring area.
4. Pass to A2 who attacks vs. B2.
5. Rotate from A-attacker to B-defender.

* Vary the situations; 1-1, 1-2, 2-1, 2-2.

This isn't the game but a good angling drill.
T3 – NZ Angling – College W

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• DT400 1-1 to 2-2 Angling Game – College W.pdf (147 KB)

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B5 – Breakout x 2 Regroup – 3 Shots – Pro

Key Points:

Shoulder check, skate between the dots, forward time to skate into the pass and give a target, pass while skating.

Description:

1. Coach dump the puck into the corner for D1 who passes to F1.
2. F1 attack and shoot at the far end.
3. Coach dump the puck into the other corner for D1 who passes to F1.
4. F1 attack a second time at shoot at the far end.
5. Coach pass to D1 near the defensive blue line.
6. D1 regroup and pass to F1 and join the rush.

* You could do this sequence up to 5-0.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/b5-breakout-x-2-regroup-3-shots-pro/

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• B5 – Breakout x 2 Regroup – 3 Shots – Pro.pdf (84 KB)

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DT400 Two Net Game – Regroup with Jokers – U15 B

Key Points:

Quickly transition from offense to defense. Communicate coverage. Attack quickly then work cycle and back to net to change the point of attack. Screen, tip on offense, box out, seal sticks to the outside on defence.

Description:

1. Two nets in line with the dots on the goal line.
2. Teams line up facing the net they are attacking.
3. Start with the coach shoot the puck in and play from 1-1 to 3-3.
4. One player is the Joker at each offensive point and can pass or shoot but not skate in.
5. Pass to first player in line for the next group to go onto offense.
6. The team that was attacking and lost the puck must quickly defend the net on the other side of the zone.
7. Rotation is attack, defend, return to the line up.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/dt400-two-net-game-regroup-with-jokers-u15/

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• DT400 Two Net Game – Regroup with Jokers – U15 B.pdf (145 KB)

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Drill of the Week Club

Enio Sacilotto has started the Drill of the Week Club again with practice ideas from top level coaches around the hockey world. Great stuff.

http://1drv.ms/11FJgTV

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B202 1-0, 2-0 With Chip – Pro

Key Points:

Face the puck and give a target, rebound for the next shooter. Chip by the defense at offensive blue line and skate into the middle lane.

Description:

1. Two lines face each other from each blue line.

Part One

2. B1 regroup with R1 from one line and R1 regroup with B1 on the other side.
3. B1 and R1 get a return pass and attack each net.
4. B1 and R1 circle back to rebound for the next shooter.
5. R2 and B2 repeat from diagonal corners – add a one touch pass.

Part Two

6. Change the drill so both B1 and B2 leave with B1 passing to R1.
7. B1 regroups with R1 who chips the puck into the zone.
8. R2 cuts across and picks up the chip while R1 drives to the net.
9. Repeat with R1 and R2 regrouping with B3.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/b202-1-0-2-0-with-chip-pro/

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• B202 1-0, 2-0 With Chip – Pro.pdf (150 KB)

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