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Seven Keys to Defending a One-on-one Along the Boards, by Enio Sacilotto
When your team loses possession of the puck in a hockey game, your players must have the mentality to pressure the opponent with the puck as quickly as possible so your team can get the puck back. It is more fun to play with the puck than without! The terms we like to use are…
Read MoreThree on zero – Eye Contact Passing & Shooting Warm-up
1. Three players leave from each end. 2. Each group passes one puck in Neutral Zone. 3. On the whistle player with the puck shoots. 4. Other two players save ice, get a pass from each corner, and shoot a few seconds apart. 5. Players must call for the puck, make eye contact and keep…
Read MoreKevin Bieksa’s Six-Point Formula For Building Team Culture
Kevin Bieksa spent parts of twelve seasons playing for the Vancouver Canucks organization. He is one of Vancouver’s all-time best defensemen playing 597 games and one of the team’s core leaders, being a significant part of the Canuck’s run to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals. He scored a memorable goal in double overtime at…
Read MoreDefensemen Retrievals – three times
The coach spots the puck below the goal line, and the player goes back for it making an escape move to beat the forechecker. It is imperative to shoulder check one way and read where the forechecker is. Sell the fake to make the checker lean one way. Always skate away from pressure. 1. Start…
Read More5 Tips to Be a Good Team Player
The best sports teams are made up of players who work together and are willing to make sacrifices. A team with unselfish players who support each other will perform better than a group of individuals who don’t play as a team. This is why, in addition to working on individual skills, it’s also essential to…
Read MoreChristmas Defensemen Camp – 2022
December 22 and 23, 2022, at BURNABY WINTER CLUB Playing defence on a team is a very specialized position with particular skills that coaches seldom have time to work on. Likewise, being a defenseman is one of the most challenging and demanding positions to master. You will work specific defenseman drills at this camp to…
Read MoreEIGHT BALL PASSING DRILL
VARIATION #1 1. P1 and P2 exchange passes, (passes #1, #2 & #3). 2. P2 passes to P3 (#4), P3 and P1 exchange passes (#5 & #6). 3. P3 passes back to P2 (#7). 4. P1 accelerates around P3 and gets a pass from P2 (#8) for a shot. Key teaching points: FULL SPEED /…
Read MoreFIVE KEYS TO BEING AN EFFECTIVE DEFENSEMEN
By Enio Sacilotto Paying defence in today’s game is a specialized position. I recently watched the Los Angeles Kings game on TV, and during the opening, the commentators were describing the play of elite defensemen Drew Doughty. They talked about five simple keys; Doughty does an elite defenseman: 1. Make the first pass. 2. Limit…
Read MoreSanta Knows What is Good for Business
The holidays are full of tradition and are a time to gather with family and friends. But no matter if you are a parent or a child, everyone recognizes the big guy in the red suit – Santa Claus. Business can learn a lot from…
Read MoreNeutral Zone 5 Pass Drill
A great drill to use at the start of practise to warm-up your team and your goalies or just to practise the skill of passing. 1. One side at a time. 2. On the whistle,1 moves feet, passes to 2 (#1). 3. 2 quickly passes (#2) to 3 at the boards. 4. 3 passes to…
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