Baskent Bad Defensive Rush

Teaching Points:

• Defense Must Skate Backwards

• Tight Gap – 1 Stick

• Do Not Turn Your Back to Play

• See the Players Away from the Puck

• Stick On Ice – Block Passing Lanes

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Six Critical Mistakes on Defensive Rush – Japan v. Turkey 2011

Turkey – PR Korea Defensive Read the Rush

In this video the defense communicates 2 times to the forward to pick up man. But the forwards fails to get to middle ice and pick up his man. Forwards need to backcheck between the dots.

Power Thoughts:

“I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.“
-Rosie O’Donnell 

“If we can play like that every week we’ll get some level of consistency.“
-Alex Ferguson 

Sports Psychology Tips:

Consistency with mental and physical training is the key contributor to winning. The bottom line is success is achieved through consistency.  Consistency in your training, words, thoughts, energy, and attention to details. It is the consistency of your focus to improve everyday. You’ve got to be consistent, if you are going to produce high results.

• Follow a training schedule
• Set daily routines for yourself
• Do not let feelings interfere with your consistency
• Keep a record of training sessions
• Keep a journal how you performed
• Set new goals at the end of each day

Baskent Fails to Execute Good Penalty Killing System

Strategy & System:

• Overload Power Play v Box

HSC Csíkszereda is using overload power play.

General Teaching Rules:

• Puck is Low, Contract Box

• Puck is High, Expand Box

• Face the Play 

• Block the Passing Lanes

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Little Things: Patrick Dwyer Penalty Killing & Short Handed Goal, USA v. Canada IIHF 2012

Team USA Penalty Killing vs. Team Canada 2012 IIHF

Power Thoughts:

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

– Bob Proctor

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.

– Albert Einstein

Don’t Limit Your Challenges… Challenge Your Limits.

– Anonymous

Sports Psychology Tips:

Beliefs Change Everything:

At one time everyone believed it was impossible to run a  sub-4-minute mile. On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person in the world to break this record. He held his world record for just six weeks before his great rival, John Landy of Australia, broke it. 


Now high school athletes can run sub-4-minute mile.

In 2010 there were 347 Americans and 1192 runner world wide to achieve this goal.  

What Changed? What made it possible for so many people to break the four minute barrier?

Beliefs Changed Everything! Once someone did it, other believed they could do it to. 

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. 
-Henry Ford 

The victor 
By: C. W. Longenecker 

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can

1 v 0 Russians and Crossovers:

Techniques:

• Passing & receiving passes
• Crossovers

Tactics:

• Control skating
• Timing
• One player per lane

Keys:

• See the puck
• Two way communication between passer & receiver

• Have your stick on the ice
• Have your stick at a right angle to receive puck
• Create good angles to pass and receive passes

Terms:

• Control skate, communicate & accelerate

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Sweeney Drill – 1 v 0

Power Question:

“If you don’t have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?”

-John Wooden

Power Thoughts: 

“Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.”

-Mia Hamm
American female soccer star. 

Sports Psychology Tips:

Focus on Improving Daily, Rather Than Being the Best!  Believing you have the ability to improve and reach your goals. Your abilities are not fixed. Focus on goals that develop the necessary skills for you to succeed. There is no such things as a bad athlete. There only untrained athletes. 

Stopping for Loose Puck on Faceoff -Alparslan Bakanoğlu

Rules: 

• The strong side wing (LW) must stop for loose pucks

Related Videos & Teaching Point: 

Team Canada Defensive Zone Face Off – Weak Side Winger Post Up Low Near Goal Line

New York Rangers Quick Transition On Defensive Zone Face Off

USA Creating Problems for Finland on Defensive Zone Face Offs

Power Thoughts:

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sports Psychology Tips:


Coaches Must Demanded From Themselves To Follow a Definite Plan for Success:

Great coaching requires that you follow a plan, emphasizing organization and working efficiently on and off the ice.  It’s important that coaches do not get distracted from  routines imposed on them from outside the game. Practice needs to start on time and end on time according to your plan; Not your moods! You have to keep your motivation high, make sure you follow your plan and get things done. 

• Follow the plan
• Read and feel the flow
• Know when to press forward
• Know when to make adjustments
• Know when to rest

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Coaching Symposium Erzurum 2012 – Passing Warm Up (On Ice Session)

We have 20 warm up passing drills we use. We start each practice with 1 or 2 passing drills. We adjust the following components for passing and receiving.

• Change Passing Techniques and Tactics
• Change Angles
• Change Space
• Change Shapes
• Change Numbers

Goals:

• Minimum 2100 successful passes in 10 minutes

Teaching Point:

• Keep your eyes up
• See the entire ice
• Call for the puck
• Stick on ice, facing the puck
• Right angle to path of puck
• Make the pass part of stride
• Move the puck to bent knee
• Cup, push point

Drill Components:

• Multiple Repetitions
• Multiple Touches
• High Speed & Timing
• Multiple Skills & Tactics

Skills:

• Side to Side Passing
• Forward – Backwards Skating & Passing
• Diagonal Front and Back Passing
• Diagonal Forward – Backwards Skating & Passing
• Touch Passes (1, 2)

Tactics:

• Spacing

 Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: The Art of Passing

Improve Your Passing Game:

MOVE YOUR MOUTH, MOVE YOUR LEGS & MOVE THE PUCK  

Power Thoughts:

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
––Harvey S. Firestone 


“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”
––Harvey S. Firestone 

“Success is the sum of details.” 

–Harvey S. Firestone 

Sports Psychology Tips:

We do not look at the clock when we practice. Having a set time frame is important. But our focus is on quality touches and repetitions in a block of time. The amount of time your spend practicing, does not guarantee success. Only through quality training repetition and touches will you improve your game. If you want to produces the best results, focus on the quality of your work, not the hours.

• If I see us making to many mistakes, we adjust the drill
• We want to focus ad on successful repetitions
• Do not practice bad execution
• Good in; Good out!
• Bad in; Bad out!

Erik Karlsson 2 on 1 NY Rangers vs Ottawa Senators, Playoffs 2012

2 v 1 Defensive Read the Rush:

• Good body & stick positioning
• Quick sticks & anticipation
• Stick well out in front of you, ready to deflect pass
• The  ‘D’  must stay up & in the middle of the ice between the forwards
• The ‘D’ should keep the puck wide
• If a pass be made back to the slot, the ‘D’ must pressure and attack the slot
• The ‘D’ should keep a tight gap
• Goalie should call I have the shooter

 

 

Do Not:

 

• Do not give up huge gap through center ice
• Do not back up into goalie
• Do not commit to one forward

Teaching Notes:

 

• At higher levels you can not allow the players to shoot from slot
• Defenders must develop fakes stick checks & checks

Teaching Points:

• Stay in middle

• Body and Stick in passing lanes

• Keep your stick on ice

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

New York Ranger Michael Del Zotto Defends Perfect 2 v 1

 

 

Power Thoughts:

 

“If you look for the bad in people

expecting to find it, you surely will.”

– Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

Sports Psychology Tips: Success Starts in the mind!

 

• Start Today
• Today Not Tomorrow

 

WHETHER

I AM

CAPABLE

OR NOT –

THE FACT THAT

I CAN IMAGINE IT –

IS

THE FIRST STEP.

Bob Kennedy

champion distance runner

 

Five Simple Strategies to Attack a Zone Defense

Want to score more goal against zone defense? Here are 5 really simple strategies. 

These strategies work against all types of zone defenses and will help you score more goals.

 

 

 

Strategy #1 – Put Your Best Shooter in the Slot 

 

 

                                       

 

 

Strategy #2 – Attack from Behind the Zone

One of the best ways to attack from behind the zone. Use the following tactics: Cycle Cross Invert Sweden Executes Two Cycles & Crosses – Sweden’s Niklas Kronwall (#7) Goal   Invert Offense Causes Confusion For Finland     Strategy #3 – Attack by Reversing Puck to Other Side of Rink Shoot Around No Space play to open corner Marian Gaborik Scored Game Winning Goal In Third Overtime – Invert Offense (Shoot Around)     Every time you reverse the puck from one side of the rink to another, it causes the defense to move. You’ll find that on almost every reversal the players will become open.

Strategy #4 – Position Players in Gaps of Zone Coverage

 

• Simply tell your players to find position themselves where’s there no defense (go where they ain’t at).
• Attack the seams with and without puck

Brett Hull Was Great at Being Between Gaps in Zone

Strategy #5 – Take the puck to net

 

• Be a threat to score
• Do not play out side the game

 

Good defensive zones want to keep you to the outside. Do not be content to have control of the puck on the outside.

 

 

Power Questions: 

Do you currently employ all four of these strategies?

 

Execute these simple suggestions and you’ll get better. These strategies work against all types of zone defenses.

How does a 70 year old sound so good? 

Practice!
-Beach Boys Interview CNN September 17, 2012

Power Thoughts:

“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.“
-Steve Prefontaine 

Building Character in Children

Be Kind To People

Sports Psychology Tips:

• Use Teachable Moments Build Character
• Use Story Telling –  To Teach Qualities of Character

 

Sweeney Drill – 1 v 0

Techniques:

• Passing & receiving passes

Tactics:

• Control skating
• Timing

Keys:

• See the puck
• Two way communication between passer & receiver

• One player per lane

• Have your stick on the ice
• Have your stick at a right angle to receive puck

Terms:

• Control skate, communicate & accelerate

Sweeney Drill:  Flow drill to work on control skating, timing and passing. This is a continuous drill working from both ends. After the pass or shot, players go to next line.

• 1 starts the dill after shot
• 1 & 2 exchange lanes
• 1 passes to 2
• 2 & 3 exchanges lanes
• 2 passes to 3 at blue line

Progressions 

Entering Zone Wide:       

•  Add 4th player to rebound

• Attacking Middle Seam:

•  Add 4th player to rebound

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 1)

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 2)

Power Thoughts:

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it:
1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.”  Paul “Bear” Bryant (Great Football Coach)

Jeremiah 24:6

I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.

“I believe that my work is as much about words as basketball.  Choosing the right words to say to players is no less important than picking the starting line-up or court strategies.”

-Mike Krzyzewski

Sports Psychology Tips:

Create Vision for Your Players:

Great leaders, teachers, coaches and counselors very often, see potential in other people that they can’t see in themselves. It our job as a coach to provide vision into them. Players often need to  be told what they can become. Players need to be told what is possible. Players want direction for their life. Your words have the power to lift players up, push them in the right direction and create a vision for their future.

• Choose to plant positive seeds
• Choose to encourage someone today
• Choose to speak hope
• Choose to speak life into dreams
• Choose to speak a vision of a great life
• Choose to speak about potential; Not problems

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Using the Shaft of Your Stick to Score Goals

Using the Shaft of Your Stick to Score Goals

Technique:

• Speed of stick
• Impact the ice 6-10 inches behind the puck

 

• Weight transfer allows the stick to flex and unflex 
• Using the shaft of the stick gives the speed to the shot

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Creating Space To Get Shot on Goal

 

Little Things: Evander Kane Creating Space To Shoot

 

NHL REGULAR SEASON STATS

74 GAMES

30  GOALS

27 ASSISTS

57 POINTS

Power Thoughts:

 

 

 

 

“It doesn’t matter who scores the points, it’s who can get the ball to the scorer” 

 

– Larry Bird

 

“Practice makes the master.” 

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

 

 

 

Sports Psychology Tips:

 

Self Belief and Confidence is critical to becoming a champion. Self Confidence is something that you must earn every day with your daily routines, life habits and work ethic. Self Confidence happens when you have a great plan and work it. Confidence just does not happen, you create it everyday in practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Keith McAdams at 6:51 PM