Kevin 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…

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Defensemen 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…

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5 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…

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Christmas 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…

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EIGHT 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 /…

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FIVE 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…

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Santa 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…

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Neutral 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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