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07/20/12 7:58pm
#1
Grande Prairie, AB - CA
Coach, Player, Fan
Coach, Player, Fan
Hey all, was just working on a season plan for the upcoming season and I was curious to see how people approach these differently. Ive broke it into four areas I need to work on obviously, Team O and D skills as well as Individual Off and Def skills.Ive often contemplated seeing the big picture first and teaching our forecheck, PP, PK, breakout etc early on in the season while incorporating individual skills amongst other things throughout the year.
This being my fourth year behind the bench Im interested to learn how other coaches out there approach who they design there season plan.
08/15/12 5:58pm
#2
Medicine Hat, AB - CA
Coach, Player, Fan, Hockey Parent
Coach, Player, Fan, Hockey Parent
Hey Walkities, How old are the players ? The younger they are the more skating & Individual drills come into play. The older they get the flow drills with your offensive ideas inset as well as defensive ideas inset. the PP and PK is an important aspect but one's I put behind my systems.I break it down to the first couple of weeks dry land two to three times a week with explosive core exercises for quickness,speed & power with a cool down period of working on DZ positioning, PP & PK positioning, and edge drills for the players when on the ice ( for me that is only one to two ice times per week), split the dman and frwds and do specific edge drills for each position.
Then after that I like to work in the systems with breakouts and OZ entry with no pressure. Defense comes next with Forecheck whether it is 1-2-2 or 2-1-2 or 3-1-1 depending on your style. Then DZ positioning ending with approx 5-7 mins of hard skating. try to work from one progression to the next with your on ice drills.
I cannot stress enough about using dryland to work in positioning of all zones, for breakouts, forechecking, PP, PK, Cycling in the OZ in the corner of the gym stuff like that. It will translate into better on ice understanding.
With the on ice drills your flow drills, breakouts should be done at a speed that they can handle there is no use going all out if they cannot receive a pass or give a pass. speed will come. The edges will be used stamina will be gained if you use flow drills that keep things moving the less standing around the better.
I do not know if this will make sense and of course it really depends on age of players but in a nutshell this is kind of my view of how a season should go with practices
regards,
Coach Rick Vaile
10/11/12 3:30pm
#3
Grande Prairie, AB - CA
Coach, Player, Fan
Coach, Player, Fan
Rick thanks,Yeah Im part of a Junior B program as a part time assistant, just like taking in information from all kinds of sources. Agree completely with building an understanding of Dzone concepts with dry land training, such a strong thing that a lot of coaches Im surprised dont use.
Thanks for the insight!
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