3 v 1 Defensive Rush Woman’s World University Team 2011

3 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’ should keep a tight gap
• The ‘D’ should keep the puck wide
• The  ‘D’  must  skate backwards and stay in the middle of the ice
• Stay between the three forwards 
• If a pass is made back to the slot, the ‘D’ must pressure and attack the slot 
• Goalie should call I have the shooter

Notes:   

In higher leagues, you can not just automatically let the player shoot. The players shoot the puck to good these days. Defense need to learn to improvise by;

• Block shots
• Block passing lanes
• Develop fake stick checks and body checks
• Develop instincts when to pressure
• Scout the other team – Know who you want  and who you don’t want to let shoot. 

Related Videos & Teaching Points:


Great Job 2 v 1 – Göktürk Taşdemir

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

New York Ranger Michael Del Zotto Defends Perfect 2 v 1

5 Man Circuit Passing Drill:

Player one executes a give and go pass with player three. Player one passes to player two.  Player two skates into the pass and makes a lead pass to player four. Each player follows the pass and takes that player’s position.  One to two, Three to four and four to one.

Individual Tactics:

• Give and go
• Skating into the pass
• Passing to space
• On touch passing

Power Thoughts:

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

For those who are bored with life,

the path to happiness almost always comes

through service to the less-fortunate.

– Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future;

it is something you design for the present.”  

-Jim Rohn

Sports Psychology Tips:

Do Not Beat Yourself:

Everyone has some self-sabotaging patterns of behavior. Make a list of your self-defeating  attitudes, behaviors, beliefs and thoughts. Create a methodical plan to turn those self defeating habits into positive stepping stones to win. When you eliminate these habitual limiting patterns of behavior, you’ll get out of your own way and success  will follow.

• Do not sacrifice your success for short-term fun
• Do what is hard and necessary; Instead of  what is fun and stress receiving 

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