Coaching Symposium Erzurum 2012 – Passing Warm Up (On Ice Session)

We have 20 warm up passing drills we use. We start each practice with 1 or 2 passing drills. We adjust the following components for passing and receiving.

• Change Passing Techniques and Tactics
• Change Angles
• Change Space
• Change Shapes
• Change Numbers

Goals:

• Minimum 2100 successful passes in 10 minutes

Teaching Point:

• Keep your eyes up
• See the entire ice
• Call for the puck
• Stick on ice, facing the puck
• Right angle to path of puck
• Make the pass part of stride
• Move the puck to bent knee
• Cup, push point

Drill Components:

• Multiple Repetitions
• Multiple Touches
• High Speed & Timing
• Multiple Skills & Tactics

Skills:

• Side to Side Passing
• Forward – Backwards Skating & Passing
• Diagonal Front and Back Passing
• Diagonal Forward – Backwards Skating & Passing
• Touch Passes (1, 2)

Tactics:

• Spacing

 Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: The Art of Passing

Improve Your Passing Game:

MOVE YOUR MOUTH, MOVE YOUR LEGS & MOVE THE PUCK  

Power Thoughts:

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
––Harvey S. Firestone 


“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”
––Harvey S. Firestone 

“Success is the sum of details.” 

–Harvey S. Firestone 

Sports Psychology Tips:

We do not look at the clock when we practice. Having a set time frame is important. But our focus is on quality touches and repetitions in a block of time. The amount of time your spend practicing, does not guarantee success. Only through quality training repetition and touches will you improve your game. If you want to produces the best results, focus on the quality of your work, not the hours.

• If I see us making to many mistakes, we adjust the drill
• We want to focus ad on successful repetitions
• Do not practice bad execution
• Good in; Good out!
• Bad in; Bad out!

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

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

Teaching Points:

• Stay in middle

• Body and Stick in passing lanes

• Keep your stick on ice

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

New York Ranger Michael Del Zotto Defends Perfect 2 v 1

 

 

Power Thoughts:

 

“If you look for the bad in people

expecting to find it, you surely will.”

– Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

Sports Psychology Tips: Success Starts in the mind!

 

• Start Today
• Today Not Tomorrow

 

WHETHER

I AM

CAPABLE

OR NOT –

THE FACT THAT

I CAN IMAGINE IT –

IS

THE FIRST STEP.

Bob Kennedy

champion distance runner

 

Five Simple Strategies to Attack a Zone Defense

Want to score more goal against zone defense? Here are 5 really simple strategies. 

These strategies work against all types of zone defenses and will help you score more goals.

 

 

 

Strategy #1 – Put Your Best Shooter in the Slot 

 

 

                                       

 

 

Strategy #2 – Attack from Behind the Zone

One of the best ways to attack from behind the zone. Use the following tactics: Cycle Cross Invert Sweden Executes Two Cycles & Crosses – Sweden’s Niklas Kronwall (#7) Goal   Invert Offense Causes Confusion For Finland     Strategy #3 – Attack by Reversing Puck to Other Side of Rink Shoot Around No Space play to open corner Marian Gaborik Scored Game Winning Goal In Third Overtime – Invert Offense (Shoot Around)     Every time you reverse the puck from one side of the rink to another, it causes the defense to move. You’ll find that on almost every reversal the players will become open.

Strategy #4 – Position Players in Gaps of Zone Coverage

 

• Simply tell your players to find position themselves where’s there no defense (go where they ain’t at).
• Attack the seams with and without puck

Brett Hull Was Great at Being Between Gaps in Zone

Strategy #5 – Take the puck to net

 

• Be a threat to score
• Do not play out side the game

 

Good defensive zones want to keep you to the outside. Do not be content to have control of the puck on the outside.

 

 

Power Questions: 

Do you currently employ all four of these strategies?

 

Execute these simple suggestions and you’ll get better. These strategies work against all types of zone defenses.

How does a 70 year old sound so good? 

Practice!
-Beach Boys Interview CNN September 17, 2012

Power Thoughts:

“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.“
-Steve Prefontaine 

Building Character in Children

Be Kind To People

Sports Psychology Tips:

• Use Teachable Moments Build Character
• Use Story Telling –  To Teach Qualities of Character

 

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

Defensive Zone Coverage Mistakes By Turkey: World University Game 2011 – Part 2

Turkey Fails to Execute Following Teaching Points:

Turkey allowed Korea to set up 2 v 1’s throughout game 

Defensive Zone Mistakes: Turkey v. Korea World University Games 2011 – Part 1:

System: 

• Turkey does not seem to have any set coverage.

Five Turkish players are in straight line.

Keys:

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

Strategy & System:

Keys:

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Defensive Zone Coverage, Isolating …

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

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Defensive Zone Mistakes – Turkey v …

Power Thoughts:

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
–William A. Ward

Sports Psychology Tips:

The problem maybe with your thoughts or feelings, but the answer is in actions. Create a plan, set goals and take action today.  Everyday you need to be taking action to achieve your goals and dreams. 

Take Action Today:

“Never confuse movement with action.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

                     Micheal Phelps – 5 YEARS NO DAYS OFF

2-1-2 Defensive Zone System & Tactics

Rules for 2-1-2 Systems:

• Always have pressure on puck carrier
• Finish your checks
• 1st man body, 2nd man puck
• Man, You, Goal
• Body in shooting lane
• Sticks in passing lanes

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

System : 2-1-2 Overload

• Overload 5 players one side of ice

Tactics

• Always press the puck carrier
• Always Out number the opposition 
• Block the passing lanes

Reads:

• When puck is on boards, overload zone

Keys:

• Early pressure
• Always out number in small area
• Get possession of the puck

 Anaheim Ducks executed 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage in 2007 and won the Stanley Cup.   

Power Thoughts:

“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”  -Steve Prefontaine

“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.”
–Steve Prefontaine

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
–Steve Prefontaine

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Team USA Failed to Capitalize on Good Forechecking…

Team USA Failed to Capitalize on Good Forechecking vs. Finland

Principles:

• Force the opposition to make 2 or more passes to breakout.
• Force the opposition to turn back, lets you control the tempo of the game

Rules:

• Always forecheck with your stick on the ice
• First man body, second man picks up puck

Teaching Keys:

• Pressure hard after loose pucks
• Use your Stick to direct the man where you want him to go 
• Take a good angle or circular approach when forechecking
• Stick in passing lanes
• Finish your check

Terms:

Active Smart Stick:  
A smart stick placement forces the puck carrier to pass the puck where you want.

Body, Stick, Puck:
Play the body first, stick second and pick up puck third.



Related Videos:

USA Makes Bad Reads On Forechecking & Defensive Rush

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: John Trvares Forechecking Goal …

Power Thoughts: 

“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.”
-Les Brown

“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”
-Les Brown

Sports Psychology Tips:

FLY LIKE A BUMBLEBEE 

• Do not let people or events in your life stop you!
• Do not let your little voice stop you from flying!

According to the laws

of aerodynamics,

the bumblebee is

unable to fly.

This is because

the size, weight, and

shape of its body

in relation to the

total wing-span

makes flying impossible.

The bumblebee,

being ignorant of

these laws,

goes ahead  and flies anyway!   

            -author unknown

Korea Support, Pass, Cross & Cycle

Tactics:

• Cycle and Cross

Keys:

• Man at net is screening goalie

• Move to corner to support

• Move, Pass and Cross

• Stop & Support and Cycle

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Ireland Teaching Highlight IIHF WC …

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Sweden Executes Two Cycles …

Power Thoughts:

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

-Zig Ziglar

“If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”
-Zig Ziglar

Defensive Zone Mistakes: Turkey v. Korea World University Games 2011 – Part 1:

System: 

• Turkey does not seem to have any set coverage.

Five Turkish players are in straight line.

Keys:

• Always put immediate pressure on puck carrier.

• The center or wing need to provide defensive support

• Always face the play

• Keep one eye on puck carrier and one eye on your man

• See the man away from puck

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

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

Tips For Teaching Defensive Zone Coverage – Practice

Power Thoughts:

“You are what you practice most.” 
― Richard Carlson

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

“Professionalism means doing your best, even when you don’t feel like it.”

~ Glenn Shepard

Sports Psychology Tips:

Great Athletes Learn to Break the 15 Minute Barrier: Great athletes know they do not have to feel like practicing. Sometimes you just need to practice first and feeling will come later. The key is to get your body in motion and the right emotions will follow. Once your start moving, you can break the negative energy holding your back. It takes about 15 minutes to get the right juices flowing. Start your warm-up routine and start training. Do not let negative feeling stop you from training. Just start, do not stop and you’ll be glad you did.

1 v 1 Defensive Tactic – Force Puck Carier to Backhand

Tactics:

• Forcing the puck carrier to backhand

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Keys:

• Tight gap control
• Good stick position – Taking away forehand

• Open the door to backhand
• Stick out in front of your body
• Elbow bent, stick in close to body, ready to poke check

• Force the player outside the dots
• Pressure up, when puck carrier commits to backhand 

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: 2 v 2 Read Rush: Woman National …

Power Thoughts:

Your attitude is either the lock or the key to the door of success. -Anonymous