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Baskent Bad Defensive Rush

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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

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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