Techniques:
- Passing & receiving passes
- 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
3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 1)
3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 2)
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
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