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

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

The Art of Passing

Philosophy:

The best passing team can become the best offensive and defensive club.

• They see the ice better than other clubs
• They see players away from the puck 

Term:

• Good vision leads to good offensive and defensive decisions

Four “T’s” of Passing:

Black Sea Cup:  Erzurum Gençlikspor & Georgia 

• Technique
• Type
• Think & Execute Off Puck 
• Timing

The Four T’s of Passing are key to developing fundamental sound players. 

The best players maintain good technique at all times. Good technique must be emphasized on every pass. 

• Cup, Push, Point

The passer must choose the right type of pass. The player must choose when to use touch passes, first and second touch skating and passing. Players must choose when to make short or long pass. Players must choose when to pass to stick, space or use no space play. Players need to know when to use the boards to make a pass or clear.

Types of Passes

• Forehand
• Backhand
• 1 touch, 2 touch, 3 touch
• 1 time
• Saucer
• Snap
• Slap
• Use of boards

Each player must be “thinking off the puck” and working on being in position to receive a pass. Players need to work on things like:  Am I calling for the puck when open? Can I see the puck? Am I in the best place for a pass? How can I give my teammate an option? Can I create space for others? The best players are always thinking and executing “OFF the Puck”.

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been – Wayne Gretzky

The 4th “T” is for timing. Both the player with the puck and without the puck need to work on timing skills. Timing is everything in hockey. Arrive a little to fast, a little to slow and the play results in a turnover. The player with the puck must choose the right pace of the pass. Pass to hard it arrives to fast. Pass to slow, it behind the receiver or the puck is intercepted.

Sweeney Drill – 1 v 0

Term:

• Control Skate, Communicate & Accelerate

Coaches must work on the “Four T’s” if they want to improve their team play. When players master the three T’s, puck handling, passing, scoring and tactics will all improve.

 

Techniques:   

Receiving Passes:

• Always position yourself where you can see the puck clearly
• Call for the puck
• Your stick needs to be out in front of your body
• Your stick needs to be on the ice
• Your stick needs to form a right angle when receiving pass
• Skate to the puck, do not stop skating and reach

Flip Pass to Open Space and Soft Hands:

Dallas Stars Tic-Tac-Toe Goal 3-27-10

Ducks Stretch Man, Filling 3 Lanes and Drop Pass 2007 Playoffs

Ducks Stretch and Cross 2007 Playoffs

KHL Back Pass 2010-11

KHL 2010-11 – Back Pass, Relay Pass, 1 v 0 Possession Screen

No Space Play Center Ice World University 2011

No Space Play Breakout World University 2011

Thorton Know When To Pass Soft 2011

Related Videos & Teaching Points: 

Nine Words to Improve Your Passing Game: 

MOVE YOUR MOUTH, MOVE YOUR LEGS & MOVE THE PUCK

Sweeney Drill – 1 v 0

Sweeney Drill – 1 v 0

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 1)

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 2)

Power Thoughts:

“A winner never whines.” 

                   -Paul Brown 

Sports Psychology Tips:

The video has an inspirational message on responding to challenges by the choices that we make, including:

1. Courage

2. Belief

3. Attitude

4. Purpose

Congratulations:  
All five 15 year old player  from ERZURUM GENÇLİK SPOR   eligible for Turkish National  Team, made the club. Every player from ERZURUM GENÇLİK SPOR  U14 National Championship team was invited to TBHF National Development Camp.

Ömer Kantar,  SeFa TaKar, Sefa Kavaz, Fatih Emin Faner and Muhammet Karagül.

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: Norway Control Breakout & Rush

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:  

1. The concentration of attention and energy on your game.
2. One deep, slow breath
3. Your breath must be slow, but game functional. 
4. You need to teach yourself to breathe deeply throughout the game.
5. 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.