Community | Tkozak (SHAHA14-15ADM)

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Description Defense First Coaching Points You may have heard the term, "Defense wins championships". You can be a great scoring team, but if the other team out-scores your team, the outcome will never be in your favor. Defense is the "key" to playing as a team. To work, all three players on the ice during a shift are defenseman first! Playing good defense creates goal scoring opportunities. Important Player Notes: Defending our goal is important. The lighting-lined arrows represent skating hard back to our defensive zone when the other team is moving the puck toward our net. This is called back-checking. Notice all three players are skating hard back to our defensive zone. We want to avoid being outnumbered in our zone so we pick a player to defend while puting ourself in a good "supporting" position. Taking inside position (meaning between the opponent and our goalie) on each opposing player puts us in good position to help our goalie and avoid a pass to the slot or a shot in the slot by our opponent. The little splat symbol between each deffensman and opposing player shows that we should be aggressive in our deffense play. If the puck moves to the other corner D3 can shift to cover the other opposing player with the puck. All players will likely shift with the puck untili we are able to create a turnover. Our breakout begins when we take control of the puck. From these positions we are in a good position to defend our net if we turnover the puck and we can also quickly transition to our breakout down the ice.

COACHING POINTS

This is our basic breakout that we learned last year. It can be run to the right or left. As you can see it leaves our defensive zone slot right in front of our goalie wide open risking a turnover and a chance to score by our opponent. We will only use this when we are first to the puck and the other team is not applying pressure. Important Player Notes: Defending our goal is the main prority when we are in our defensive zone. The breakout begins when the other team freely dumps the puck and we are first team to win the puck or when we have clearly obtained controlled of the puck from our opponent. The assigned defenseman (D) will retreive the puck in the corner or behind the net and begin to cycle the puck to the opposite corner behind the net (never skating with the puck or passing the puck in front of our own goal.) The forwards (F) will also determine when we have clearly won the puck and immediately skate to the outside boards position (F). As the D is skating with the puck, he identifies where his forwards are on the ice (pick your head up and look for your open wingers). This version shows the D passing to the right F. The left F observes the D's pass to the right F and quickly skates in a cross pattern inside the defensive zone to receive a cross pass from the right F. After the D passes the puck to the right F, the D skates to the middle of the slot with inside position an opponent (this allows us to defend a possible turnover). After the right F makes the pass to the left F, the right F skates quickly in a crossing pattern behind the left F allowing the puck handler to advance the puck. The right F is now on the left side and is skating freely for a possible pass back.

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PROGRESSION

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