Diary of a Season 2011-12

[Tom Molloy]

Last practice before our two games on the weekend. Some players arrive a little late as it is at 4 and many get out of school 30 min. earlier. Started with one goalie and 13 skaters and 15 minutes in all 15 skaters and both goalies were there. Focus was on good playing habits like gaining the big ice between the dots, pass and follow the pass and take the ice behind, isolate the widest defender and create 2-1's, back pressure and create defensive 2-1's, box out, seal sticks to the outside, use escape moves to gain time and space.
I will post video of the passing warm up drills.
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November 3 Practice – 75 Minutes

Goals:
Good habits. Escape Moves
Box out, seal sticks to the outside. Play Big Ice Hockey
Back Pressure Isolate wide defender and create 2-1’s

A300 Nervous system Overload
-carry 2 pucks at once.
-Chaos using escape moves in nzone.
Chaos Passing-exchange pucks while skating in nzone. Count how many you make in 60".
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/edge-school-puck-handling/

C1 2-0 Skate Inside and Pass Outside
Skate to the big ice between the dots with the puck and pass to the outside. Pass and follow the pass taking the ice behind.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/b4-2-0-skate-inside-pass-outside/

C2 Passing 1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1
Start with a shot and everyone gets a pass in each zone.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/c2-1-2-3-4-5-5-4-3-2-1-pass-and-shoot-warm-up/

D4 Two Pass at each end
Rules:
Game one-you must make an escape move before you can pass or shoot.
Game two-Rotate teams. Rule you can only score on Give and Go Plays.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/d1-games-for-good-playing-habits/

DT400 2-0 Back Pressue Game-one goal game.
F1 pressures the puck carrier into the defender and creates a defensive 2-1.
Sequence: Support-breakout-turn back-attack-defend.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/dt400-continuous-game-with-back-pressure/

DT100 Attackers With Active Support
-2 on 2 with the offense getting support from the blueline.
-Point players are like jokers and can shoot or pass but not go in. must make a play within 2”.-Sequence –Defend-breakout-attack jokers-rest.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/dt100-game-of-2-2-with-offensive-support/

E1 – Gambling Shootout
Bet each shot. Loser skate across and back.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/e1-gambling-shootout/

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[Tom Molloy]

Saturday was a tough game for us. After winning five straight I think 'we were drinking our own bath water' and looked like we were out of shape and had no systems. We lost loose puck battles all over the ice, didn't fill in for each other on rotations. Our first was ok and we led 1-0, then in the second we stopped competing and gave up 4 breakaways and never made a break out pass. We were down 1-2 after two. In the thrid we were a little better but gave up two more breakaways to the top scorer in the league and she scored on one. Ended up losing 3-1 but our goalie was our best player by far. We gave up the first pp goal in seven games, a short handed goal and an even strength. So we were bad at everything.

It was a time to bring out the Team Covenant and review what the players had promised each other. Out captain was visiting her brother who is playing NCAA and they had their opening game. Our team covenant states Family First; so it was ok with everyone for her to go.

On Sunday we played the top team in the entire league. We played a really solid game and had them hemmed in for long periods at a time. Everyone was ready to play and competed hard. The score ended up 2-2 and we probably deserved the win. We were shorthanded the last 4 minutes, 2 minutes of it was 5 on 3.

Next week we go north and play St. Albert and Edmonton the two top teams in the northern division.

Our week is.
Monday – spin on the exercise bikes.
Tues – practice
Wed. – specialty team scrimmage with another Calgary team
Thurs – practice
Fri. – off
Sat – St Albert
Sun.- Edmonton

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[Tom Molloy]

Deniz is coming here from Turkey tomorrow and staying with me until Friday. He wants to come to our practices, we will go to the Flames-Wild game after practice Tuesday, hopefully see some NHL practices and other hockey things. I get him right after my noon school skills class. He was captain of the Turkish National Team and is getting into coaching.

I told him that to really experience Canadian hockey he has to play with us on Wed. morning. He needs pants and socks and we will supply them. It is a bunch of retired pro hockey players, teachers, fire men, mounties and farmers who have the mornings off. Everyone played a pretty good level. I am sure he will love it and the guys will have a lot of fun meeting him.

I have to call the Flames to see if he can meet some players or see the dressing room or something. They fired all the coaches I knew so I don't know if I can get him down there.

My wife is away visiting family in Ontario now so I have time to do a lot of hockey stuff with him.

He has a youth program in istambul. Juhani Wahlsten "Juuso", coached them about 10 years ago at the IIHF Worlds.

Looking forward to it.

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[Tom Molloy]

Deniz Ince, the coach from Turkey came to our combined practice on Wed. It was back to back 60 min ice; so we were on for 30 alone, then they came and warmed up at one end and we did a continuous 3-2 with 1 pts for a goal and one point for stopping the team from entering the zone.The score was on the clock. We won that by tean points. They couldn't break the4 Tsunami. then there was a shootout with one point per goal and they cosed the gap to 5 points. The winning team got milk and cookies. They stayed on for 30 min.

Thursday we did individual skills for the first 30 minutes. Deniz and I went on the ice with former NHL scorer Morris Lukowich who has a company called Maximum Goal Scoring. Morris had 3 things he wanted to show Deniz.
1. Taking the pass in the power zone and not dusting the puck.
2. Scoring zones to shoot at with one timers.
3. Puck pull push and shoot move and reading the goalies stick for where to shoot.

I had my players work in pairs across ice doing the skills and added a few moves from Jursinov.

We then did puck handling skills with 3 figure eights on each side with different tasks finishing with a shot.
1. puck only on the forehand.
2. puck only on the backhand.
3. quick hands and feet, no coasting – shoot.
Other way.
4. quick hands and feet again.
5. skating backwards.
7. transition skate facing the far end – shoot.

We played 2 pass with skating rules every 3 minutes.
1. snow plow.
2. flat footed.
3. slalom.
4. one leg.
then we had a break and the goalie pointed out to me that they were leaving everyone open; so I reminded them to play man on man. The greens switched ends and we played some good habit games.
5. Pass only on the forehand.
6. Escape move before you can pass or shoot.

Full ice transition game of 2-2 with offense getting active support from 2 jokers at the blue line. (they can only have the puck 1" and must shoot or pass. The focus was to created 2-1's on offense and box out and seal the sticks to the outside on defense. We did this for about 6 minutes.

We met in the middle and I changed the rotation. The whites sent out 1-2-3 players to support the offense and the greens 3-2-1 players, so the situation was different every time from 1-1, 2-1, 1-2, 3-1, 1-3, 2-3, 3-3.

We finished with a 2 shot shootout and the asst. coaches kept score. It ended 7-5 and the losing team had to do 2 push ups. When the winners heard this they said they should also pick up the pucks, so we added that.

We do north for a 2 game road trip playing St. Albert then Edmonton. they are first and second in the northern division. It will be interesting to see how we match up.

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[Tom Molloy]

We played the two top teams in the northern division.

First game we played a team with some of the top scorers in the league. We forechecked and had them hemmed in for long periods but couldn't score. It was 1-1 after one, 1-2 after 2 and 1-4 at the end. We pulled our goalie and were all around their net but no one put it in and then one of their player slapped it out blindly from their end and it went right in the middle of our net. Scoring chances were equal. I was really happy with the way we played. Their goals were on individual efforts that we didn't have good defensive technique on. Those can be fixed. Scoring chances were equal.

Sunday we were all over them creating all kinds of scoring chances but either missed the net or passed instead of shoot. We lost 2-3. They scored on a penalty shot and the girl did the Datsuk move with a back toe drag and scored a really nice goal. Again we pulled out goalie and had lots of chances but didn't score.

So we have the 4th best GA out of the 12 teams but the 7th best GF.

Our project is to raise the level of everyone a little bit. We play the top team in our division next week. They have only lost 2 and tied 2 in 16 games. We have beaten them once and tied them once.

I couldn't ask a team to work harder than my players do. It would be nice to see them get rewarded by scoring a little more.

So getting everyone to win their defensive 1-1's and moving the puck quicker, shooting quicker and putting in rebounds is the emphasis of the week. It is a lighter week with Monday off, tues – ice, Wed. – plyo's, Thurs – ice, Friday off and 2 games on the weekend. It is good as my top scorer has the flu really bad. We play everyone in every situation until the last few minutes of games where we are behind. We need everyone to play with good habits and game understanding.

The 2 F that I moved back to D both played well on the weekend and were even or plus players. That has been a major project and they are getting better every week. They are both great skaters and compete hard.

A few of my 94 born players were spoken to by college scouts (Canadian institutions). I have 2 D and 4 F in grade 12 who would be good college or university players. We are going to a tournament Notre Dame in Wilcox, Sask. next month and there is a big one here after Christmas. There is always a lot of college scouts at these tournaments. I used to recruit at them when I was the head coach at Mount Royal.

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[Tom Molloy]

We played the top team who have only lost 2 and tied 2 out of 17. We had beaten them 5-2 away and tied 2-2 in our home rink.

We dominated the first period and it was 1-1. Two linesman were the refs as no ref showed up at another game and the head ref left. We disputed a really poor call on a too many men where our players were in the box and the door closed and this set one of the refs off and she had us 2 short for about 6 minutes. We didn't kill very well and they got 4 goals and then outscored us 2-1 in the third.

Moral of the story is that it is better to put up with bad calls because once you lose a ref you are in trouble.

Their goalie constantly kicks the net off whenever there is pressure. Not in the spirit of the game in my opinion but some goalie coaches teach it.

Sunday we played great the first two periods and were leading 4-1 and outshooting the opponent 33-6. They had scored 3 in the third to tie the game the night before and started the third outshooting us 7-1. They made it 4-2 and then we took a slashing the goalies hand penalty with 2.5 minutes left and they made it 4-3. We got an empty netter for a 5-3 win outshooting them 40-16.

This week we have:
Monday – Spin on the exercise bikes.
Tuesday – 90 minute practice – Gaston is doing skating for 45 minutes.
Wed. – on ice 75 min. – Dean may do some games for half the practice.
Thursday – off
Friday-Saturday-Sunday a game each day.

Goal of the week is to improve fitness, skating technique, angles, clarify pk rotation and work on some individual problem areas.

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[Tom Molloy]

Today we had a 90 minute practice and had Gaston there to do half of the practice on skating technique. The session was going so well that I asked him to keep going and he did the entire practice.

He worked on the forward and backward stride, turning forward and backward, the chucktow turn and then put it all together with one on one's with no puck and keep good gaps and D side and then they used pucks and tried to score in one on one's. Everyone attacked and defended.

It was a great practice and I think it will really help.

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[Tom Molloy]

We only had an hour and tomorrow off before a 3 game weekend so I wanted to have a very quick paced practice. We did drills and games the players know with a few added twists so we didn't need to go to the rink board.

– A200 warm up – handle two pucks and then pass two pucks at once.

– A200 – balance and edges sequence with a puck and finish with a shot.

– C2 – everyone gets a pass in each zone. On the 1-0 touch both kees at each blue line. and then everyone gets a pass in each zone. One touch passes and one touch shot. Sequence 1-2-3-4-5 5-4-3-2-1

– B5 – double cross and drop and shot and then add a pass low and back.

– B6 – 3-0 weave and regroup with the other end.

– DT100 – 2-2 backchecking game.

– DT100 – Continuous 1-1, 2-1

– E1 – 2 shot shootout

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[Tom Molloy]

On Friday we played a team who is just ahead of us in the standings and two weekends ago defeated the top two teams in the league. They have the top scorer in the league. She is a big strong player with a right handed shot. She has a great toe drag but what makes her so effective is that she shoots thru the defender in the middle of her toe drag, so she creates a screen as well as gets the goalie moving sideways and opening up wholes. I coached college 5 years and in a pro women's league the last two and didn't see anyone as effective as her in shooting off the rush.

We had a great first period and they couldn't solve the Tsunami and we got 2 even strength 1 shorthanded and 1 pp goal for a 4-0 lead. They came out hard in the second and we were shorthanded 3-5 a few times for hits to the head. Their top scorer got 2 even strength and one pp goal. We scored late on the pp so we went in after the second leading 5-3.

In the third she got another goal on the rush shooting while moving her feet, toe dragging and letting it go using the D to screen. It was 5-4 and pretty intense. We were getting out competed the first half of the third but came on and won most of the battles in the last ten minutes and scored an empty netter with a minute to go and won the game 6-4.

It was a very hard fought game. The coach of Team Alberta for U15 was there watching our goalie and the player who scored 4. They are both underage and had to be chosen in the top 3 in order to play U18 AAA. I think he was impressed.

We have a Sat. and Sunday game.
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Saturdays game was the shootout at the OK Corral which we ended on top 8-4. We got 4 pp and one SH goal. So our specialty teams were good. 50% on the pp. We gave up one shorthanded.

We were very loosey goosey near the blue lines and that is where the turnovers happened and they got their goal from. We outshot them 41-21. I watched the video late last night and we were really moving the puck around.

Dean and John the Columbian were at the game and I talked with them a bit after the first but they weren't around after the game. I was hoping Dean would buy me that soda he promised.
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Just got back from the game to find my Gazeboo blown down and bent out of shape from a wind storm. A few of the lights in the arena were out and they have closed off access to the city centre where debris is blowing off the top of buildings under construction.
We won 6-0 and got 2 more pp goals and another sh goal. Shots 40-23 for us.

The last two games were vs. teams below us in the standings. The team we beat today defeated the team we played on Friday so we probable have moved in front of them in the standings.

We play the best team I have seen this year next weekend. We are 1 and 2 against them. So we need a good week of preparation starting with boxing on Monday and then 3 days of on ice practice. Dean is invited to come and do some games on Wed. at Erin Woods.

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[Tom Molloy]

Dean, any comments on the above posting?

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[hockeygod]

Hi Tom,

We had to leave right after the game (John had to coach and I had to get home), but we did stay till the end. You were right – it was indeed a shootout! (Hey I gave you my monthly "friendship payment" after the first… didn't know I was also supposed to buy you a soda after the game!)

I was impressed with some of the girls on both sides. Your #8 and #18 stood out. 8 was strong with the puck; using her speed and skills to take on players and beat them. She funneled into the PSA pretty hard. Her skating ability allows her to do this. 18 was pretty good on the back end. She plays heads up hockey and sees the ice – she passes and shoots well. When retreating backwards, she tends to cross over every third or forth stride… this would be problematic for her against a skilled attacker.

Special teams were definitely working for your team! I was impressed that Okotoks didn't appear to get discouraged because you scored some "morale-sinking" goals on them… instead, they roared right back after each faceoff and either scored a quick one back or created a good scoring chance or two. They seemed to run out of gas in the 3rd period though, due to the short bench. Their goaltending was soft too.

On the Okotoks side, #10 and #12 played well together. 10 is more of a power forward who needs to improve her shooting under pressure (she had several quality chances alone on the goalie but only scored once; I think she had 3 assists); while 12 worked her butt off and her hat trick came as a result of her work ethic. I am told she is a super positive girl, so it was nice to see her get rewarded. #11 on Okotoks is ONLY 13 YO! I felt she was their best D. Gritty and feisty, she really got involved. With good coaching, she has a lot of potential. #4 was their other top D. She plays with good positioning (O and D). When she defends, she is one of the rare individuals who doesn't cross over; she plays her 1 vs 1's like a pro… backward sculling to maintain and match the attackers speed. She doesn't put her feet into a bad situation (cross-overs) and this makes it tough for girls to beat her… they can't take advantage of using deceptive moves to get her crossing her feet. If the attacker drives wide, she open pivots to the opponent and maintains her speed and body position. Highly impressive for either gender!

After talking to Derek (the Okotoks coach), he told me their top 4 players are out with injuries; along with their best goalie. Because the practices and games conflict with the Bantam AAA schedule, it is almost impossible to pull players up ; plus with the 'draw area' so large, girls either can't make practice (or don't want to drive that far on cold, dark roads). He also said 19 players who would have been eligible to play in Okotoks this season (Midget AAA) left for other teams (Edge, Warner, etc.) So that is an entire roster for a team… plus the 4-5 who were out yesterday. In essence, they are fielding a Midget A or AA this year. It looks like a couple of girls are certainly playing over their head and would be better served at a lower level, but what can one do when you need bodies?

I am amazed that so many girls left this program. I have heard there are issues with the MHA and have been for a few years (including coaching in the past). Apparently, there are only a couple of Board members who 'care' about girls hockey; the rest prefer to see resources go to the boys. All in all, a tough situation for Okotoks. I don't know what they can do to rectify it. I remember when Airdrie had a team about 10 years ago… I think they lost all their games that year, then folded. The Airdrie girls now play in Okotoks…

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Crazy wind storm here today… had to further secure our patio furniture that we had tarped previously this fall. My neighbours' trampolines blew across their yards. One is resting against his fence; along with everything from his patio! The other neighbour must have dragged his tramp around the corner and lashed it to the side of his house. (I helped him do this once before… we get a lot of wind here on the extreme West edge of the city. See below…)

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Extreme weather
Massive cleanup begins in ‘windy city’

josh wingrove AND and nathan vanderklippe, Globe and Mail, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011

Calgary’s in cleanup mode after hurricane-strength weekend winds shuttered the downtown, tipped over vehicles, uprooted trees and overwhelmed emergency crews.

An alert was issued and major streets were closed at 2 p.m. Sunday as winds reached speeds as high as 149 km/h in Calgary and across southern Alberta. Officials asked people to simply stay indoors – at one point, every one of Calgary’s 90 available fire trucks were on the road.

“There have been so many calls, our police and ambulance can’t keep up with them,” Calgary police Detective Dean Vegso said.

No one was seriously hurt. One firefighter was hit by falling glass, suffering minor injuries.

The property damage, however, was extensive. Powerful gusts peeled roofs from buildings and whipped trash into twisters on city streets. Photos showed tractor trailers tipped on their sides along highways. Countless trees fell, hitting houses and cars.

Danielle Smith, the leader of the opposition Wildrose Party, was watching Star Wars at her house in High River, Alta., when the image cut out. A large pine tree had been knocked over, crashing through her fence and onto the hood of one of her cars.

“It looks like the trunk fell right down on the hood of the car,” she said. “I suspect there’s not much hope it’s going to survive.” Another tree was also knocked down, barely missing her house.

The winds exceeded what Environment Canada considers a Category 1 hurricane in a coastal city. The Calgary Zoo cancelled its programming, citing “extreme high winds and weather warnings.” The winds were expected to subside late Sunday evening, Environment Canada said.

Power was knocked out across parts of the province. “It’s just knocking trees down left, right and centre,” RCMP Constable Stacy Campbell said. “We wish Mother Nature would work with us here.”

The province turned to its emergency alert system – overhauled in the aftermath of a devastating fire that hit the small city of Slave Lake earlier this year – to urge people to seek shelter. “Put as many walls between you and the storm as possible,” it said.

It was southern Alberta’s second day of strong winds in less than a week, after a storm blew semis into ditches on Thursday. Late fall often brings violent weather to the province, as chinooks deposit huge dumps of snow in the mountains – more than 50 centimetres in some places last week – and then hurtle over the prairies.

The debris resulting from these storms has proven fatal in the past: In 2009, a car-sized piece of sheet metal killed a three-year-old girl walking through downtown.

On Sunday, scaffolding collapsed at some low-rise construction sites, but there were no major problems at construction sites, including the Bow tower, which will be the tallest in Western Canada when it’s completed. It’s atop the Bow that winds reached 149 km/h.

“Calgary is a windy city. When a chinook blows through, we know there’s going to be some high winds,” said Kerry Gillis, senior vice president of major projects with Ledcor Construction, which is building the Bow tower. Crews reported it “was pretty hairy,” but nothing flew off the building, Mr. Gillis added.

Across Calgary, some century-old trees didn’t survive a storm worse than many could remember.

One tree tumbled into a house next to the home of Mike Stanfield. Its roots were pulled from the ground, leaving an exposed black mass of soil. “They’re knocked over all over town,” Mr. Stanfield said. “There’s dozens of them down.”

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Gaston was working with the team last Tuesday on eliminating cross overs in backward skating. It is hard to change habits that players have been doing for 10 years. #18 had quite a 3 game weekend. +4 even strength with no GA and +5 on the pp and no goals against on the pk.
#8 was +3 even strength, +2 on the pp, scored two shorthanded goals and was on for one against on the pk.

It is always hard to play a team that your team considers an easy opponent. That team has tied 4 games this season vs some of the top teams; so those teams weren't prepared to compete. My team was prepared to skate hard on offense and score some goals but didn't pay attention to defense or good habits at the blue lines. Lots of stupid turnovers. At least they were ready to attack and we have more talent than that team in a game of river hockey.

The next day we played a much better team and got a 6-0 shutout and gave up only one semi breakaway that the ref thought was worth a penalty shot; so our goalie had to earn the shutout.

So sometimes a coach has to be satisfied with a win, even though it is ugly as long as you can use the poor game as an example of what happens if you play with bad habits like handling the puck as last man or passing soft into the middle.

It was really easy to get up for the Friday night game vs an arch rival Calgary Chaos team and the trick is not to blow games you should win and to beat teams that you should beat.

Two big tournaments for us this month. One at Notre Dame in Wilcox, Saskatchewan and the Mac's tournament here right after Christmas. There will be lots of college scouts there for my grade 12 players to impress. I used to recruit at both these tournaments when I coached at college. My number 8 is only in grade 10 but I am sure a lot of schools will be writing her name down. I think she is the best player in the league and a definite candidate for the National Team.

Tom
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Dean
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[hockeygod]

Tom,

Just read that part about the invite to your Wed practice… I have a meeting that night so I will be tied up. We will have to schedule another day.

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."

[Tom Molloy]

That is ok Dean. Terry Johnson is going to come to our practice tomorrow night and I asked him to give the players some key points in playing defensive one on one's.Terry was a good NHL defensive defenseman and I coached with him for 5 years at the U of Calgay and he has helped me with other teams over the years. Very good communicator.

I just got back from our dryland session. Tonight it was boxing at NSD. The instructor Dale was very good and he went over some combinations in a good athletic balance position. Weight transfer and using the body. All important athletic principles. They also did heavy bag work with 60" of punching followed by a 200 metre wind sprint. They finished with 15 minutes of core work. It was a good change of pace. I took some video on my iphone and will put it up the next few days.

Tueday we have a 90 min. ice session and will focus on 1-1's.

Wednesday is an hour on ice and will play games such as full ice baggo with either 2 touches or 1". One pass in each zone etc. The games will teach the players to support and to play with good habits.

Thursday we will have a 75 minute game preparation practice and work on individual and team defensive techniques along with team offensive concepts.

Every practice has skating and individual skill work at the start.

We have Friday off and play Saturday in Red Deer and Sunday at home.

The first half of the season was for me to get to know the players and how to put them into situations where both they and the team benefit. We taught all of the system things and the big ideas. The second half we will focus on the DETAILS and now I have the players on set lines and am using two lines for the pplay and the other line plays all other situations. The centre on the checking line plays the point on the pplay as well.

Some players are so much more effective at certain positions. The checking centre does a good job there and got 3 goals playing the point on the pp and one on a semi breakaway when she came out of the box. Another player has scored 4 in the last two weekends after she moved to left wing on a line with two good offensive players. That is why I experiment a lot to look for chemistry the first half of the season.

I don't know if it is just a season fluctuation but since we have changed the lines we have scored 25 goals in our last 4 games. The pp has been especially good scoring half the goals. I taught the girl's the basic rotation that Billy Moore's used at the U of Alberta against us. We hit the seam between the F and D at the hash and read; 1. skate thru and score or pass back door to the wide wing or D jumping down. 2. If the D pressures thent pass low and that player try to score, give and go or pass to any of the other 3 players. 3. If the forward pressures go high and the D can shoot or move it to the middle and create a diamond pp that can use screen shots or shot passes.

The players have been creating options on their own based on these principles and right now it is working. I hope it continues. We play the best team in the league on Saturday so we will see if it is still working.

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[Tom Molloy]

My team did boxing last night.
https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/downloads/ is a 4 minute video of some of the things they did. I had to put it in the files section because it wouldn't load in the video section. It is the first time they did boxing and they had a lot of fun.

It ended up being a good workout. Ran 1000 m. to warm up and then got the safety tips and instruction on stance and some combinations that they rehearsed and then punched into the instructor Dales gloves. They moved on to the hard part doing intervals of punching the heavy bag and sprinting 200 m. They finished with 15 minutes of core work.

Dale was getting a kick out of instructing them because they couldn't stop laughing but he was really impressed with their work ethic.

A good change of pace practice.

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[hockeygod]

Tom,

Good boxing video!

Thanks!

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
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