Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: USA Creating Problems for Finland on Defensive Zon…

USA Creating Problems for Finland on Defensive Zone Face Offs

Moving Behind Center for Shot

 Moving Puck Back to Point & Across

Wing @ Hash Mark Moves Puck Back to Wing @ Top of Circle for Shot

Team USA Scores Goal on 4 v 4 Offensive Zone Face Off

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Power Thoughts:

“Goals determine what you’re going to be.”
-Julius Erving

“If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals.”
-Lou Holtz

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.”
-Ronald Reagan

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
-Earl Nightingale

Sports Psychology Tips:

Outcome Goal: 

Is a goal that you do not have 100% control of.  For example, I will win a gold medal.

Performance Goal: 

Is a goal you have 100% control over. For example, I will get up each day at 6:00 am every morning and run. 

Action Step for Today: 

1. Write down the  five most important outcome goals, you want to achieve in the next twelve months. You must make a commitment to achieving them – no matter what it takes.
2. Write down the performance goals you will need to achieve in each of the above goals. 
3. Performance goals are key to creating positive momentum to achieve your outcome goals.

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Norway Control Breakout & Rush

Norway Control Breakout & Rush

Slides/Drawing

Control Breakout:  

• Follow a set pattern

Keys:

• Stop behind net
• Control skate
• Timing
• Filling three lanes
• Width & depth in the attack

Terms:

• Control Breakout, Sure Entry, Possession, Set up

Rules:

• Move the puck to the fastest skater
• Form Offensive Triangle

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Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Norway Control Breakout & Rush

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips

Power Thoughts:

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.”

-George Steinbrenner

“One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.”
-Byron Nelson

Sports Psychology Tips:

Centering:  

1. The concentration of attention and energy on your game.
2. One deep, slow breath
3. Your breath must be slow, but game functional. 
4. You need to teach yourself to breathe deeply throughout the game.
5. Practice breathing deeply during your practice.

One Deep Breath Will Mean a Lot to Your Game: 

• On bench – Sit tall and breathe deeply
• On face off –  Be in good hockey position and breathe deeply.
• During the game – Pick your spot and have one good deep breath.

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Team Canada Defensive Zone Face Off – Weak Side Wi…

SYSTEM:

Good teams breakout out of their defensive zone quickly. Getting available quickly is the key to effective breakouts.

Team Canada Positioning on Face Off:

• Center on Center
• Defense boards side must pick up wing
• Defense picks up wing middle ice 
• Middle forward through middle between center & defense for loose puck, Go to point or pick up loose puck
• Outside wing moves out to cover point

TACTICS:

• Strong Side Wing going through middle must stop and get loose puck
• Weak Side Winger post up quickly on the boards down near goal line

TECHNIQUE:

• See the puck
• Call for the puck
• Stick should be on the ice as a target for pass

Rules:

• Always face the play

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Power Thoughts: 

“Offense is spacing…spacing is offense.” –Chuck Daly

“Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.”  – Joy Page 

Sports Psychology Tips:

1969 World Champions, ‘ Amazin’ Mets:

 I wanted advise how to become a great catcher. I was 10 years old.  Jerry Grote, the great New York Mets catcher told me the following:

“Focus on what you want; Not what you do not want. A good catcher tell the pitcher what to do, not what not to do.”  -Jerry Grote

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Sweden Executes Double Reverse IIHF 2012 WC

System: Breakout-Reverse

Tactic:  Reverse to Wing & Center

Keys:

• The checkers skates must be pointing in same direction as puck carrier
• Stick of forechecker middle ice

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Five Power Thoughts on Fear:

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
-Jim Morrison

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
– Bill Cosby

“The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

“Don’t permit fear of failure to prevent effort”

-John Wooden

Sports Psychology Tips:

Pay Attention To Your Self Negative Talk:

If you want to improve your game; Start paying attention to your negative self talk.

1. What you say to yourself at practice means everything.
2. What you say to yourself, can interfere with your performance.
3. What you say in-between practice drills and between shifts, determines your focus.

Action Steps to Take:

1. Start a log and record your self talk.
2. Recognize negative self talk and replace with positive.
3. Use cue words to direct your focus and performance.

Move & Fakes – 2012 Coaching Education Program Erzurum Turkey

This presentation was created for TBHF, and has been up dated for Erzurum Ministry of Youth & Sport and Northeast Anatolia Development Agency. This lecture is free for coaches and player on google+. You must ask for permission to view this presentation.

The program contains lectures, teaching notes & videos. 

This program allows us to share material and ideas with you. 

This presentation will be continuously updated with new information and drills to help you.

Please send email to Keith.f.McAdams@gmail.com for access to this presentation.

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Power Thoughts:

“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”

–Stevie Wonder

Four "T’s" of Passing:

Black Sea Cup: Erzurum Gençlikspor & Georgia 

• Technique
• Type
• Think & Execute Off Puck 
• Timing

The Four T’s of Passing are key to developing fundamental sound players. 

The best players maintain good technique at all times. Good technique must be emphasized on every pass. 

• Cup, Push, Point

The passer must choose the right type of pass. The player must choose when to use touch passes, first and second touch skating and passing. Players must choose when to make short or long pass. Players must choose when to pass to stick, space or use no space play. Players need to know when to use the boards to make a pass or clear.


Types of Passes

• Forehand
• Backhand
• 1 touch, 2 touch, 3 touch
• 1 time
• Saucer
• Snap
• Slap
• Use of boards

Each player must be “thinking off the puck” and working on being in position to receive a pass. Players need to work on things like:  Am I calling for the puck when open? Can I see the puck? Am I in the best place for a pass? How can I give my teammate an option? Can I create space for others? The best players are always thinking and executing “OFF the Puck”.

The 4th “T” is for timing. Both the player with the puck and without the puck need to work on timing skills. Timing is everything in hockey. Arrive a little to fast, a little to slow and the play results in a turnover. The player with the puck must choose the right pace of the pass. Pass to hard it arrives to fast. Pass to slow, it behind the receiver or the puck is intercepted.

• Control Skate, Communicate & Accelerate

Coaches must work on the “Four T’s” if they want to improve their team play. When players master the three T’s, puck handling, passing, scoring and tactics will all improve.

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Power Thoughts:

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been – Wayne Gretzky

A winner never whines. 
                   -Paul Brown 

Coaching Ice Hockey Using Digital Video Technology

Digital video technology allows the coach to breakdown and analyzes the team & player’s performance. Digital technology can revolutionize the way every youth coaches can prepare their teams and players. Digital Cameras and application are affordable for most coaches. Video allows you to analyze performance and let you see things you couldn’t see during the games & practices. Videos can be used to teach skills, systems, tactics and breakdown the game. Every coach should video games and some practices. We video tape all the practice during training camp. We then video practices two times a month for each age group. We use videos to evaluate individuals and teams performance. We use the videos to teach skills and take work segments. These work segments do not lie! Videos shows us where we are improving. Videos allow us to fine tune our focus and improve our weaknesses in future practices.

• What you see is what you get
• You improve on what you focus on

Video Technology allows you to provide accurate feedback to your players. We use Facebook to give players instant feedback on their performance. We post videos daily to aid in the teaching process. We use videos to highlight good plays and motivate the players. If used right, video technology can be used to facilitate mental training and psychological skills necessary to win. Equipment Needed:

• Editing software 
• Quality digital camera 
• Good laptop or desktop computer

The simplest way to breakdown game videos is a followed: 





Offensive Rush: Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Slovakia Tomas Tatar Goal – Rush …

• 1 v 1, 2 v 1, 2 v 2, 3 v 2, 3 v 3, 2 v 1 + 1, 3 v 2 +1
• Overload
• Cross
• Overlap
• Regroup

Offensive Control: Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Invert Offense Causes Confusion …

• Cycling
• Crossing
• Boards
• Give & Go

Forechecking: Team USA Failed to Capitalize on Good Forechecking vs. Finland

• Soft Dump
• Cross Corner Dump
• Hard Around Boards

Defensive Read Rush: New York Ranger Michael Del Zotto Defends Perfect 2 v 1

• 1 v 1,  2 v 2, 3 v 3,
• 2 v 1, 3 v 2,  4 v 3, 5 v 4
• 2 v 1 + 1, 3 v 2 +1, 4 v 3 +1

Power Play: Chris Kreider Goal – Hard Rims Can Be Effective Play On Regroups

• Rush
• Offensive Control
• Forecheck
• Transition from Defense to Offense
• Face Offs

Penalty Killing: Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Little Things: Patrick Dwyer Penalty …

• Rush
• Offensive Control
• Forecheck
• Transition from Defense to Offense
• Face Offs

Face Offs: New York Rangers Quick Transition On Defensive Zone Face Off

• Offensive Zone
• Center Ice
• Defensive Zone
• Special Plays

Scoring Chance Form: 


Period: Time Stamp: Team: Type: Description 
1 1.23.01 ERZ OC 1st line cross, cycle shot & rebound 
1 1.40.23 ERZ R Fatih driving wide, pulled down, leads to PP 
1 2.10.06 ERZ PP FO/OC/Goal, Point shot, screen tip & rebound 


You should record scoring chances from both teams. Keeping track of scoring chances, provides an accurate view of your teams strengths and weaknesses.




Power Thoughts: 


“I believe God gave us crises for some reason—and it certainly wasn’t for us to say that everything about them is bad. A crisis can be a momentous time for a team to grow—if a leader handles it properly.” -Mike Krzyzewski

Four Things Youth Hockey Coaches Can Do To Improve Their Coaching Abilities For 2012-13 Season:

Power Questions:
Do you have a coaching syllabus?

Every coach should have a coaching syllabus. For youth hockey I recommend you break it down into four areas.  Every skill, system and tactic you will teach should be in the syllabus. Your syllabus must be detailed. Your syllabus should be re-worked  and improved each year.

1. Skill syllabus
2. Defensive syllabus
3. Offensive syllabus
4. Special team syllabus

Your Coaching Syllabus Should Change Time to Time:

• Players change, so your syllabus could need to be changed
• Opponent change year to year
• Players progress quickly
• Player progress slowly
• Some things work, something do not

My syllabus includes the following: 


System: Is the plan


Tactics: Is how you execute the plan

Principle: A rule used to choose among solutions to a problem which works most of the time.


Goals: Each practice, drills and concept must have measurable objectives


Reads: What players should see


Skills: List of skills and progressions


Keys: Smaller details


Rules: Things that Happen a lot


Roles: Responsibilities of Each player


Terms: “Good Vision Leads to Good Decisions”

“I try to do the right thing at the right time.  They may

just be little things, but usually they make the difference

between winning and losing.”

    -Kareem Abdul-Jabbar  

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ERZURUM GENÇLİK SPOR KULUBÜ 14U Team Wins National Championship Turkey!

Eleven Ways To Improve Your Practices & Team:

ERZURUM GENÇLİK SPOR 2011-12 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

This is a copy of my philosophy on practice planning for my 14 and under club. My program is based on 11 ingredients:

1. Structure, Structure, Structure:

A successful practice has to be well planned and organized, following a clear set of objectives from start to finish.

• Dynamic Stretching & Warm Up Off-Ice  
• Properly warming up the muscles and ligaments of the body is essential for avoiding injury
• Proper cool down after practice

2. Simple Warm-up On-Ice Stressing 1 or 2 Passing Drills: 

• Effective warm-ups allow the players to become mentally and physically focused to begin the practice
• Spend a few minutes stretching center ice – If you have the ice time available.

 3. Fundamentals & Defense: 

• We work fundamentals and defense daily
• We take pride in the fact our players are equipped with the basics in puck handling, passing, shooting, rebounding, and defensive fundamentals 

4) Game Preparation: 

• Keep things simple and progress 
• The key is executing the system and tactics being used
• Always be working on understanding how to read & react both on defense and offense

 5. Predictable & Variety:  

• Practice can become easily boring with the same drills 
• I keep my schedule and practice format predictable, but continually introduce new progressions and drills to my practice
• I stay with drills until they master them 
• If I sense things are becoming to boring I change the format 

6. Competition: 

• Encourage an atmosphere of hard competition too simulate a game-like level of play
• One of the best ways to create competition is to add back and forward pressure
• Keep score at practice of the things you are focusing on

7. Accountability: 

• Considering rewarding hard play (I.e. Hustling for loose pucks, winning battles on the boards and getting rebounds.)
• Hold your players accountable for their performance
• Provide continuous positive feedback, and punishing poor play

 8. Winning & Improving Is Fun: 

Don’t take yourself too seriously. Make sure your players are having fun or they’ll lose their drive and focus for training.

9. We focus on drill that stress the following: 

• Multiple touches & reps
• Multiple groups
• Multiple skill drills

10.  Utilize Small Area Ice Drill:

The younger the group, the more time I would spend on small ice drills.

• Small area drills give you more touches & reps
• Isolate one or more skills

11. End With Small Games

Work on basic game principles including; Pressure, Possession, Defense,  Passing, Movement, Shooting & Rebounding! Set the game up to target an area of your performance.

• Design small side to sided games
• Diagonal half-ice games 

Power Thoughts:

“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”
                                                                                                -Norman Vincent Peale




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