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

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

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Japan Breakout and 3 v 2 Tactics, World University Games 2011

DPR Korea Weak Side Breakout Pass & Offensive Control

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

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Teaching Highlights IIHF World Champiohsips , Division 3

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: Slovakia Good Gap Control Leads To Quick Transitio…

Slovakia Good Gap Control Leads To Quick Transitions in Neutral Ice

Brad Richards one-times a shot at top of circle

We want our defense involved in the offensive rush.

• The defense should be between the dots on the defensive rush
• The quickest transitions take place when the puck is turned over in middle ice
• The defencemen should go up on rush to opposition’s blue line and to the top of the circles
• This gives our team more options on the attack
• It allows the Defense to keep the puck in at the offensive blue line

Principles:

• Close defensive gap take away time and space making the counter-attack much easier 
• Forcing a Turn over in neural ice create shorter distance to the offensive goal

Key Points Defensively:

• Keep the gap tight between defenders and the oppositions’ attackers
• Keeping a tight gap enable defencemen to handle the rush at or before blue line
• The defense should be slightly staggered

Playing Rules:

• Gap of one or two sticks through center ice
• The gap should be one to one in a half sticks at blue line
• Pressure up on all even situations

Terms:

• Read, Communicate, Stay Up, Contain

Slovakia 1 stick stick through center ice

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Finland Defense Up on Rush, 2nd Wave Attack IIHF WC 2012

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Power Thoughts:

Question asked to Coach Daily; “Any regrets in coaching?”  Response: “I wish I would have talked with my players more”

“To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.”
-Tony Robbins

Sports Psychology Tips:

Mental Training:

The easiest part of your body to improve, is your mind. Start today by visualizing the way you want to play. Talk yourself into playing great. Get your body in motion and create the right emotions. Adjust your physiology, to be strong mentally and physically.

Five Key Components of Mental Training Program:

1. Goal Setting – Helps you make the right choices under pressure.
2. Mental Rehearsal – Increases skill development and reduces stress.
3. Self Talk – We all speak 400-1000 words per minutes to ourselves. Replace the bad with good and improve your game.
4. Arousal Control – Breathing connects the mind and body. Long exhaling will improve focus. relax the body and improve recovery time.
5. Adjust Physiology – The right posture, put you in the right position to win. Allows your to breath easy, improves focus and perform better.

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Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Invert Offense Causes Confusion For Finland

Invert Offense Causes Confusion For Finland

Team USA utilized the area behind the goal to give Finland headaches all game. Team USA shot the puck in around the boards. USA cycled, crossed, continuously passed the puck back behind the goal line. . USA tactic was to out work, out muscle and cause confusion at the net. Team Finland attention was below the goal line and they lost their men in the defensive zone. Team USA moved the puck to the point or to the net where men were open.

Why Use Invert Offense:

• Forces 2 & 3 players to pick up players behind the goal line
• Forces the forwards to come down low, opening passing lane to point men
• The defenders focus their attention below the goal line 

Tactics:

• Cycle
• Cross
• Shoot or pass around boards

Keys:

• Arrive quickly on puck
• Good angling and circular approach skills
• Good 1 v 1 skills offensive zone
• Good puck protection skills
• Picking the puck up and taking it to net

Principles:

• Be a threat to score
• The defense is high, move the puck low
• The defense is low, move the puck high

Rule:

• Take the puck to the net

Note: 

This is the same tactics the New York Rangers used against the Washington Capitals 2011-12 playoffs. This is becoming a dominate tactic in NHL. The size of the players and new rules make this effective tactic in the game today.  

All five players are focused on man behind goal line.

 All five players are below face off circle.

Team USA has time and space for shot and is screening the goalie.

Team Finland stops pass to point. Strong side wings skates are pointing up ice.

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Power Thoughts:

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

–Pope John Paul II

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”  

-Abraham Lincoln

Sports Psychology Tips:

Three Success Tips From Bruce Springsteen:

Bruce Springsteen is considered one of the best performer ever in concert.

When asked what is his secret to success? “It really pretty simple.”  Bruce Springsteen said, “Today’s concert is the most important concert in my life. It only rock and roll. Play everyday!”

If you want to have the energy of Bruce Springsteen, you need to make today the most important game\practice of your life. But remember, it only a game, go out play and have fun!

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

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Japan Breakout and 3 v 2 Tactics, World University Games 2011

DPR Korea Weak Side Breakout Pass & Offensive Control

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Norway Control Breakout & Rush

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.