1. MAXIMIZING YOUR PLAYER’S GAME
13U & OLDER
MAXIMIZING YOUR PLAYER’S GAME
Joe Doyle, Air Force Academy
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2. THANK YOU

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

4. 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

5. 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???

6. 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!

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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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?”

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

15. Net Front Presence

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

17. Ovi’s 50 Goals

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

19. Cross the Glory Road Game

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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: