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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

1 v 0 Russians and Crossovers:

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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

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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…

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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

RELATED VIDEOS & TEACHING POINTS:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Teaching Highlights IIHF World …

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:

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.
Write down the performance goals you will need to achieve in each of the above goals.
Performance goals are key to creating positive momentum to achieve your outcome goals.

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Norway Control Breakout & Rush

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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:

The concentration of attention and energy on your game.
One deep, slow breath
Your breath must be slow, but game functional.
You need to teach yourself to breathe deeply throughout the game.
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: Slovakia Good Gap Control Leads To Quick Transitio…

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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

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

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:

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

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

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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.

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

Action Steps to Take:

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

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: New York Ranger Michael Del Zotto Defends Perfect …

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New York Ranger Michael Del Zotto Defends Perfect 2 v 1

2 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’ must stay up & in the middle of the ice between the forwards
The ‘D’ should keep the puck wide
If a pass be made back to the slot, the ‘D’ must pressure and attack the slot
The ‘D’ should keep a tight gap
Goalie should call I have the shooter

Do Not:

Do not give up huge gap through center ice
Do not back up into goalie
Do not commit to one forward

Teaching Notes:

At higher levels you can not allow the players to shoot from slot
Defenders must develop fakes stick checks & checks

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Power Thoughts:

Coach George Halas: Brian Piccolo died of cancer at the age of 26. He left a wife and three daughters. He also left a great many loving friends who miss and think of him often. But when they think of him, it’s not how he died that they remember – but how he lived. How he did live!

“I don’t care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.” -Gale Sayers

Brian’s Song. Great Movie

Ernest Hemingway once said “Every true story ends in death.” Well, this is a true story.

Please see Jimmy V Foundation

Sports Psychology Tips:

Three Things To Do Now, To Improve Your Performance:

If you want to practice as good as an Olympic Gold Medalist; You need to match your attitude, emotionally energy and enthusiasm. You have 100% control over your attitude, emotional energy, and enthusiasm. Great athletes focus on things they can control. You can improve your game now, by focusing on improving your:

Attitude
Emotional Energy
Enthusiasm

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Teaching Highlights IIHF World Champiohsips , Divi…

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PR Korea Play Aggressive 1-2-1 Penalty Killing Trap

Keys: (1-2-1)

First man has to pressure puck carrier
Force the puck to the puck to be moved to boards.
Pressuring the puck carrier, pass and lose puck
Hold the defensive blue line

Ireland Gives Turkey the Win!

1. Shot scored from before red line.
2. Defensive zone face off, Ireland forward fails to put body in shooting lane.
3. Ireland had four power plays face offs in the offensive zone, lost the draws and failed to pressure the loose puck.