MAXIMIZING YOUR PLAYER’S GAME 13U & OLDER MAXIMIZING YOUR PLAYER’S GAME Joe Doyle, Air Force Academy Presented by:

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Introduction Assessing Players Concepts & Habits to Give Your Players the Best Opportunity to Advance Top 10

Assessing Players 5 Tool Players Hockey Head Hands Feet Compete Size/Strength Every level of Hockey has 3.5s - 4.5s with the rare 5s

Every Level 3.5 - 4.5 w Rare 5 NHL: Sid, Ovi, Kane, Benn Pavelski, Thornton, Wingels, Kessel, Bonino, Hagelin, Hornqvist, Schultz College: Eichel, Larkin, Connor Youth: Your Teams???

Every Level 3.5 - 4.5 w Rare 5 5 Tool Players (Skills) Head, Hands, Feet, Compete, Size Take these 5 tools off the table How do you help a 3.0 become a 3.5 or a 3.5 become a 4.0? HOCKEY HABITS!

Hockey Habits Top 10 #10 ACTIVE STICK Create loose pucks Tics Influence Plays

Hockey Habits Top 10 #9 MEET GUYS EARLY D Gaps & Net Front Away from Puck as Important as On Puck Own the Hands

Hockey Habits Top 10 #8 Be ‘2nd QUICK’ to Pucks Near Support on Contested Pucks Allows teammates to dink/bump pucks to an area Being 2nd Quick = More puck possession

Hockey Habits Top 10 #7 READ the ‘OPEN ICE’ Is the ‘Open Ice’ in FRONT of or BEHIND the defense? Take what the Defense gives you D have a Good Gap or Bad Gap? Pucks released behind the defense that you get to = POSSESSION

Hockey Habits Top 10 #6 Goalie ‘Front Side’ D ‘Back Side’ Is a 2 on 1 REALLY a 2 on 1? D Must NOT give up ‘Back Door’ Influence puck carrier into as poor of an angle as possible

Hockey Habits Top 10 #5 DECEPTION Send False Information Stick Fakes, Head & Shoulder Fakes, Look Offs, Change of Pace Deception = More Time & Space

Hockey Habits Top 10 #5 DECEPTION “The team that makes the most mistakes is taking the initiative, and they will win later in the season.” That was John Wooden’s philosophy, and it captured 10 NCAA basketball championships in 12 years! Imagine that; then consider his question for youth coaches, “How can a real teacher not indulge mistakes?”

Hockey Habits Top 10 #4 Be a NET FRONT PRESENCE Take Goalies Eyes Away Occupy a Defender Tip & rebound

Net Front Presence

Hockey Habits Top 10 #3 Play on FOREHAND More of a THREAT Firmer Plays Show/Present Forehand

Ovi’s 50 Goals

Hockey Habits Top 10 #2 Cross The ‘Glory Road’

Cross the Glory Road Game

Hockey Habits Top 10 #1 Make Goalie Make Save CAN’T Miss the Net Purposeful Shots Pad Pass IS Shooting to Score Create 2nd, 3rd Chance Opportunities

Conclusion Forehand Active Stick Make Goalie Make Save Cross the Glory Road Deception Net Front Presence Meet Guys Early Be 2nd Quick to Pucks Goalie FRONT side ‘D’ Back side Read the Open Ice

MAXIMIZING YOUR PLAYER’S GAME through GREAT HABITS 13U & OLDER MAXIMIZING YOUR PLAYER’S GAME through GREAT HABITS Joe Doyle, Air Force Academy Presented by: