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

Czech Republic 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage

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Tactics:  

•  2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage

Principles:

• Taking away time and space

Positioning:

• Overload 5 players one side of ice

Mistakes Made by Czech Republic:

• Czech players were in good position; But sticks not on ice

Reads:

• Overload when puck is in corner
• Overload when puck is on boards

 Keys:

• Maintain 2-1-2 Defensive Balance

• Always have pressure on puck

• Sticks must be on ice

• Maintain Man You Goal

• Move quickly when puck is moved from one side of ice to other

Rules:

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

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

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

Power Thoughts:

“At Boston University, I motivated negatively.  I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year, everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them.  The last two years at BU I motivated positively and got much better

results.”

-Rick Pitino

Leadership Tips:

John C. Maxwell’s brand new book, “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth” 

• The Law of Modeling: It’s Hard to Improve When You Have No One But Yourself to Follow
• The Law of the Mirror: You Must See Value in Yourself to Add Value to Yourself
• The Law of the Rubber Band: Growth Stops When You Lose the Tension Between Where You Are and Where You Could Be
• The Law of Contribution: Developing Yourself Enables You to Develop Others

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

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

RELATED VIDEOS & TEACHING POINTS:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Teaching Highlights IIHF World …

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Teaching Highlights IIHF World …

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Teaching Highlights IIHF World …

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: 

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: 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: 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.

RELATED VIDEOS & TEACHING POINTS:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Ireland Teaching Highlight IIHF WC …

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Sweden Executes Two Cycles ..

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: 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