4/29/2021

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Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching
10 Min 2 Man Passing
10 Min North/South East/West Shooting
10 Min Stacked Sliding Drill

Teaching kids defensive slide sets is important but difficult to implement in a game due to the chaos. An important principle for defenders to learn is how to slide and recover.

  • 4 offensive players in the four corners
  • Put a goalie in cage and put 3 defenders stacked in a straight lin in the middle of from the crease
  • Assign a number 1,2,3 to each of the defenders or call out their names
  • The offense should move the ball, keep spacing, and shoot only off a pass across the crease or skip pass
  • The defense will have to come out and slide to the ball and recover. The coach calls a number 1,2,3 and the designated player with that number is the player who must make the slide and recover
  • As the ball is passed, a coach calls another different number and the assigned player slides aggressively to the ball.
  • The first defender recovers to the inside hole, stick to the inside and in the passing lane, with head up looking for the next dangerous guy



10 Min 3 Person Slides

The goal of this drill is to have your defense talk and do 1 and 2 position slides

  • Place a goalie in goal
  • The drill turns into 3 on 3
  • Create 4 lines of defense and offensive players (8 total lines) around the goal, 1 line at each corner just outside the box
  • Create a 5th line of offensive and defensive players to play in the crease
  • Place two piles of balls at each of the top corners
  • An offensive and defensive player runs into the crease
  • Ball starts at one of the top corners, the offensive player with the ball goes 1 on 1
  • If he beats his man, the crease defender slides, offensive player looks to pass it to the crease
  • The offensive player behind and diagnal from where the drill starts runs towards GLE
  • The 2nd defenseman slides and covers the crease
  • Coach should emphasize two slides



10 Min Numbers
10 Min 6 v 6
5 Min All-Star Announcements
  • AJ
  • Harrison
  • Jacob
  • Jack W
Opposition Report
  • Attack
    • 8 is a mid-sized shooter, will shoot often
    • 25 big and fast and will go through guys to the goal
    • 23 attack shoots low (weakest of the good attack)
  • Defense
    • 5 Defender is slow
    • Defense doesn't slide, nor do they talk
    • 43 on Defense dodge to the cage on him (consider ISO)
    • Overall our matchup vs their defense is favorable to us (lots of motion)
  • Midfield
    • 14 faceoff is their best middie (Jacob to matchup against)
    • 14 Fogo make him pass as his faceoff stick has problems throwing
    • Other faceoff guy have Logan or Chris matchup against
    • 96 likes to shoot but is not accurate
  • Goalie
    • Fast and chases shots
    • Shoot weakside mid and low