Attacking the Seam Without Puck to Open Shooting Lanes

Principles:   Power Play

• Control Breakout, Sure Entry, Possession and Set Up
• Be a Threat to Score

Terms:

• Attack the Seams with or without puck

Teaching Points:

• Keep the Puck Moving
• Good Power Plays Keep the Players Moving
• Support Low, Middle and High
• Move Up and Down the Rink
• Move Across or Diagonal on the Rink
• Attack the Seam Without Puck
• Attack the Seams with Puck
• Open Up Shooting Lane

 

Coaching Tips: 

 Three Stages of Becoming 

A Great Coach

1. An average coach impresses players.

2. A good coach impacts players.

3. A great coach inspires players for a lifetime.

Sports Psychology Tips:  Three Types of Goals; Performance, Process and Outcome Goals

Performance goals are things you can do that you are 100% control of  such as the number of hours you will train and number of repetition in gym. Performance goals focus on success or failure at the task.

Process goals focus on mastering specific skills such as skating, puck control,  passing and shooting.  Executing process goals increase the probability of achieving your desired outcome.  Process goals break things down into manageable components or actions to improve your tactical and technical skill development.

Outcome goals such as “I want to make the national team” or “win the championship” etc. However, outcome goals are usually not under your full control. Outcome goals can be huge motivational factor or become a major source of pressure and frustration. Athletes must balance performance, process and outcome goals to reach their optimum motivational level.

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Offensive Move by Sidney Crosby and Sergei Drozd

Sergei Drozd

Sidney Crosby

Part 1: Core Skills – Moves & Fakes:

Four Basic Building Blocks Of Playing Defense

Play Smart:

Know Your Position:

Smart Stick 

                         

Posture

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

2-1-2 Defensive Zone System & Tactics

Czech Republic 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage

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Power Thoughts:

Coaching Tips

Sports Psychology Tips:

Be Aware Of Your Players Mind Set:

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Defensive Zone Coverage – The Puck Carrier is Behind Goal

System/Strategy:

Positioning:

• Box in One Positioning

• Tight Box and defense pressure puck carrier on to his backhand

Reads:

• The Defense must read we are in a tight box and one
• The Defense must read and pressure puck carrier on to his backhand
• The Center must read and replace the defender at the post 

Keys:

• The defense go to the corners of the net and stop all pass out attempts
• The three forwards must come down low and tight in front of the net

• The center takes the spot of the defender pressuring the puck carrier
• The center, one defender, and two forwards form a tight box
• The players must  keep their ‘head on a swivel’ with sticks on the ice 
• The defense must read the play and force the puck carrier to his back hand
• The center takes the spot of the defender pressuring the puck carrier
• The players must  keep their ‘head on a swivel’ with sticks on the ice 

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Teaching Points 2-1-2 Woman’s World University Games 2011

Canada 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage IIHF WC 2012

Power Thoughts:

Sports Psychology Tips:

• Change I can’t to I can
• Use cue words to direct your focus and performance
• Change negative stories created in your mind to positive stories

Coaching Tip:

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Russia 3 v 2 Middle Man Driving to Net WU 2011

Tactics:

• Middle man drive between two defenders

Individual Tactics:

• Stick in shooting position
• Fake shot

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

3 v 3 Rush (Offensive Triangle)

Offensive Triangle

1. Move the Puck before Blue Line.
2. Enter the Zone Wide
3. 2nd Man into Zone Drive to Net
4. 3rd Man Forms Triangle

Key:

• The middle man must drive to net to open up space in slot

Power Thoughts:

“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.”

-Lee Iacocca

“Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.”-William Shakespeare

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.”-William Shakespeare

“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

-Anthony Robbins

Coaching Tips:

Move and Fakes: Part 1 & 2

Part 1: Core Skills – Moves & Fakes:

Part 2:  Puck Protection & Moves

Notes: 

Please feel free to contact me for copies of the videos and support information used in this symposium.

Power Thoughts:

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.” 
― Glenn Beck

“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.” 
― Brian Tracy

“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.” 
                              ― Asa Don Brown

“There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.” 
― Bob Anderson

Vancouver 2011 Playoffs – Pressure on Lost Face Off

Playing Rule:

• Always pressure with two men on lost face offs on power play

Teaching Points:

• Pressure on all lost face offs
• Defense hold blue line
• Always go to net when puck is at the point
• Always be screening, tipping and rebounding

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Offensive Power Play Face Off – Turkey Greece 2012 World Championships

Tactics:

• Blocking Out Man
• Screening, Tipping and Rebounding

Canada Offensive Face Off and Pick 2012 WC

Keys:

• Always have a plan for all face offs
• Center always communicates plan with other players

Power Thoughts:

“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.”

-Jim Rohn 

“Don’t wish that things were easier, wish that you were 

better.”        –Jim Rohn 

“This above all, to thine own self be true.”

– William Shakespeare

Coaching Tip:

Have a plan and sell that plan. You need to tell the guys why you are doing what you are doing. 

Baskent 4 v 4 Fails to Divide the Ice

System:

• Your team must know what system you are using

• Man to man or Box Zone?

Principle:

• All good defensive clubs keep the ice divided

Tactics:

• Pressure up on even situations

• Play the body – No stick checks

• See the puck and the players away from the puck

• Do not turn your back to your man

• Always block the passing lanes

• Play man-you-goal

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

4 v 4 Hockey

Luxembourg Fails to Divide Ice IIHH WC 2012

Power Thoughts:

“Anybody can point out problems, but the valuable person is the one who finds the solutions and accepts the responsibility to implement the solution.”  -Ronn Wyckoff

Coaching Tip:

Players need to know, you care about their development. You must provide players a couple of things to do to improve their game. 

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

Principle:

• Be a threat to score

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

3 v 3 Rush (Offensive Triangle)

Offensive Triangle
1. Move the Puck before Blue Line.
2. Enter the Zone Wide
3. 2nd Man into Zone Drive to Net
4. 3rd Man Forms Triangle

Key:
The middle man must drive to net to open up space in slot.

New York Rangers Ottawa Senators – 19 Brad Richards 3 v 2 Pick:

Tactics: Picks\Screens For Puck Carrier

Keys:

• The  player without puck skates into the lane of defense 
• The pick must be set in the direction the puck carrier is skating
• The pick can be set skating is straight line or cross
• Do not make contact with the defender

Tactics:

•  The player skates in same lane as puck carrier

•  The man without the puck make the defense give up space and turn towards boards

•  The picker skate right into the defenders space, without making body contact

• The picker created passing lane

Tactics: 3 v 1

• Attack the Defender

Reads:

• The space
• Read the stick – Pass before you are within stick length of the defender.

Keys: 

• The puck carrier must attack the defender 1 V 1
• The puck carrier must make the defender commit
• The man without puck must level off outside the reach of stick (3M Rule)
• The man without the puck goes behind the defender, he can not receive the pass

Power Thoughts:

“Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.”
-Venus Williams 

“It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.“

-Vince Lombardi 

“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.”
-Vince Lombardi 

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)

Sports Psychology Tips:

All Winners Suffer Setbacks:

Every winner has lost and every losers can win. Your past does not determine your future.  How you handle your loss, determines if you will win again.  

• Winners are willing to risk losing
• Winners get knocked down, pick themselves up,  dust themselves off and ride again
• Winners take responsibility for the loss and learn from it
• Winners believe in themselves after a loss, even when others do not
• Winners never leave the sight of loss without setting a new goal
• Winners plan a comeback