Coach’s goal for the team
Your Game Plan
Next game I’m playing .
Pick 3 goals for the game.
Your Game Plan
These are the things to notice, try, and compete on today. No grading. Just play, then talk about what happened.
Scan Twice
Shoulder check before retrieving the puck. Find pressure, teammates, and open ice. Check again before you touch it.
Have a picture before you get it.
Know Before You Get It
Look around before the pass arrives and have an idea of your next play. You can still change your mind.
See first. Touch second.
First + Second Option
Find your best play and a backup before you receive the puck.
Always have Plan B.
Learn an Opponent
Study someone you keep facing. Notice a pattern, remember it, then use it later.
I noticed a pattern, then I used it.
Slow the Game Down
Find moments when everyone looks rushed but you actually have time. Use the space.
You don't have to play at everyone else's speed.
Find Another Solution
If the same play keeps failing, change the answer.
Solve the problem, don't repeat it.
Teach Dad and Mom
Notice something during the game Dad and Mom probably cannot see from the stands. Explain it to them after.
Be the hockey detective.
Make One Teammate Better
Pick one teammate before the game. Help that player succeed with good passes, support, communication, and space.
Help someone have a great game.
Be Their Eyes
Give useful information before teammates receive the puck: TIME, MAN, MIDDLE, WHEEL, or your team's words.
Talk before they get it.
Create for Someone Else
Instead of only asking how you can score, look for ways to put teammates into dangerous positions.
Make the next player better.
No Superhero Hockey
Don't try to fix every mistake by doing everyone's job. Play correctly, support teammates, and trust them.
Don't save the game alone.
Zero Frustration
Your mistake or a teammate's mistake: no head drop, stick slam, glare, or complaining. Get into the next play.
Body language leads.
Change the Momentum
If the team is struggling, create momentum without trying to score by yourself.
Create the next good play.
Win the Next Shift
Ignore the scoreboard. Every time you come over the boards, make the next shift good.
Next shift.
Positive Voice
When things aren't going well, communicate confidence: We're good. Let's get one. Next shift.
Bring the team with you.
Response After Mistake
Mistakes happen. Measure the next five seconds, not the mistake.
Win the next five seconds.
Move the Defender
Use your eyes, shoulders, stick, puck position, or speed to make a defender move, then attack the space he leaves.
Move him before you beat him.
Make Him Choose
If you have time, let the opponent commit first. Then use the space his decision creates.
Don't rush his decision.
Pull Someone With You
Carry toward a defender on purpose. When he commits to you, move the puck into the space you created.
Carry with a purpose.
Change Speed
Slow down, speed up, hesitate, or change direction. Don't attack every defender at one speed.
Fast isn't the only weapon.
Take the Ice
If nobody challenges you, take the open ice until somebody has to stop you.
Make them take it away.
Pass + Move
After every pass, immediately find useful space and become an option again.
Pass. Move. Get it back.
Give-and-Go Hunter
Create at least three deliberate give-and-go opportunities.
Beat them with two players.
Create Someone Else's Chance
Create dangerous chances for teammates. They don't have to score for it to count.
A great chance counts.
Find the Weak Side
Look away from the puck and find the player or space everyone else has forgotten.
See what others miss.
Drive the Net
Skate hard straight to the front of the net. Good things happen when you get there first.
Beat them to the net.
Set a Screen
Stand where the goalie can't see the puck. Make the shot a surprise.
Be the one he can't see around.
Hunt the Rebound
After a shot, go where the puck might bounce. Loose pucks near the net are chances.
Go where it bounces.
Tip It In
Get your stick on shots coming from your teammates. A little touch can change everything.
Get a stick on it.
Escape One
Beat the first forechecker with your feet, edges, cutback, the net, a pass, or deception instead of throwing it away.
Beat pressure. Keep possession.
No Automatic Boards
Before going up the wall, check middle, D partner, reverse, weak side, and carry.
Look before boards.
Move It Early
If the right pass is already there, make it before pressure arrives.
Quick can be smarter.
Carry or Pass?
If there's open ice, take it. If a teammate is in a better spot, move it.
Read it. Choose it.
Defense → Offense
The instant you win possession, change your thinking from defend to attack.
Can we keep it and attack?
Pass + Go
After a good breakout pass, move your feet immediately. Try to beat an opponent up the ice and become another option.
Pass it. Then GO.
Fourth Attacker
When your team clearly controls the puck, find safe opportunities to join as the next attacking layer.
Join when it's green.
Green / Yellow / Red
Green: we clearly have it. Yellow: puck is uncertain. Red: they have it.
GO / READ / DEFEND
Arrive Late
Let defenders follow the first attackers and arrive into the space that opens behind them.
Timing creates space.
Find the Weak Side
As the play moves to one side, look for open ice or a teammate away from everyone's attention.
Look away from the crowd.
Don't Back Up Forever
Stay close enough to challenge the attacker. Try to stop the rush before it gets deep into your zone.
Close the gap.
Protect the Middle
You don't always need to steal the puck. First take away the dangerous middle.
Middle first.
Win It Back
Turnover? No frustration. Immediately become the hardest player trying to recover possession.
Next five seconds.
Control, Don't Chase
Use position, skating, and your stick to control the attacker's choices instead of chasing the puck.
Take away what he wants.
Head Up on the Puck
When you carry the puck, keep your eyes up and feel it on your blade instead of staring down at it.
Eyes up, feel the puck.
Five Clean Passes
Make five crisp tape-to-tape passes your teammate can handle right away. Count them during the game.
Tape to tape, five times.
Teach Dad and Mom one thing.
Notice something from the ice they couldn’t see from the stands. Check this when you do it, then type what you saw.
Logged! Nice work out there.