International Hockey Centre of Excellence Centre d'excellence en hockey international Hockey Canada. Olympic Saddledome. Box 16. Calgary, Alberta T2P 21(8 Hockey Canada. Saddledome Olymproue. C.P. 16. Calgary. Alberta 12P 2K8 (43) 261-46 TIEING: "TEE KEY TO OFFENSIVE SUPPORT" Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Advanced II Seminar June 29 - July 5, 1989 Calgary, Alberta Presented by: Dave King General Manager/Head Coach Canada's National Hockey Team Operated by Hockey Canada in co-operation with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association HOCKEY CANADA Sous la resoonsibilite de Hockey Canaca en collaboratiiin avec!association Canadienna de Hockey Amateur
A Introduction The ability to "think" offensively is probably the weakest part of our game. We have done a very good job,of providing coaches and players with information on how to develop skills. As well, we have done a good job of supplyingplayers and coaches with information on systems of team play. The problem is we have not spent enough time developing the thinking or conceptual ideas that link skill execution with team play systems. skills team play systems thinitiag (concepts) B Define "thinking" It is taking in information and very quickly processing it and finding a solution. More simply put; it is "Reading and Reacting". The ability to read and react is certainly enhanced if the athlete has the ability to anticipate! Anticipation is an integral part of reading and reacting in that the intelligent athlete reads a situation more quickly than others so that he is "one play ahead" or "one step ahead" of the action. The ability to read and react is sometimes very reactive- in nature. By this / mean the player sometimes simply reacts because the action is very intense due to checking pressure or lack of time. However, sometimes he has time and space therefore he reads that he must initiate or be proactive! He takes an action to force the opponent to react and then he is prepared again to react. The ability to read and react will always vary from player to player and we cannot make all players into a "Wayne Gretzky". However, I do believe we can, through teaching the concepts of the game, assist all players in learning to read and react better. Reading and Reacting In my experiencea; have found most players read the opponents and their activity reasonably wellaihowever, many players fail to read their own teammates as well as read the opponents. When this occurs, duplication of effort is the result and an imbalance in positioning happens on the ice.
- 2 - What factors are involved in a read and react situation? 1. Vision the ability to see the ice or see the play. - pick up appropriate cues. 2. Anticipation That options or possibilities exist and do any of the visual cues indicate a preference. 3. Communication 1 players are actively moving on the ice therefore communication alloys the player to clarify his role or activity early in the situation a) Verbal - without question, lead tin communication before a key decision has to be made can really assist players in their ability to read and react - "communication prevents duplication" and "communication prevents hesitation" b) Non-verbal - eye contact, stick on ice 4. Decisions Based upon what the player "sees" and anticipates, he then makes the decision or reaction D Read and React anolied to Offensive Sumnort I would now like to take you through a teaching sequence where we are looking at Offensive Support and applying a read and react approach to this topic. That is.offensive support? i) Direct A player skates "off" the puck and gets open to become an option for puck carrier : ii) Indirect A player skates "off" the puck to move defenders and create space for the puck carrier.
- 3 - iii) Timing is the key to support! With good timing you enhance the passing opportunities, therefore you increase chances of puck control. However, poor timing often causes bad passes to be made. Examples: a) Too soon: puck carrier either didn't have enough control to utilize it or he rushes his play and makes a poor pass b) Too late: puck carrier now under so much pressure he has to force the pass through a checker and turnover results II Timing the Key to Offensive Suttiort 1. Key Factors or Reads in Timing - eye contact - tells yo to support - Is the pa carrier looking? - Does he have good puck control? Is he under checking pressure? 2. Save Ice GA te.sç JL.c...m.. Tells youçc to provide support oarr44. S444"I f i rejasa p and estab n a good passing lane and receiving angle. ------ 5 reaj" )..(7 Keep as much ice in front of you until the key moment when you must accelerate into the opening. Control skating and taking back ice are needed to accomplish this. 3. Accelerate into the opening and receive the puck with steed Hopefully you create a situation where you have some open ice and a real speed advantage on the closest defender. 4. Communication verbal non-verbal: stick on ice indicating you are open and want the puck
-4-5. When developing drills to teach timing, consider the following: a)!any of the drills you presently simply add a "control" point where with speed. use can become timing drills if you the receiver is to receive the puck b) To maintain speed, a receiver cannot simply skate any from the puckcarrier. It some point, he reads he must save his ice by moving across the ice laterally to maintain speed yet still be a receiving option. %.e - receiving angle starts to diminish therefore improves it by going across the ice c) In some situations, a-player off the puck must.read or anticinate his potential as 'a 'receiver and take back ice early and create more ice in front to work with. II IN MI IN =I INISIIMN111-.%\ J d).1( Being an option more than once is crucial to skating "off" the puck. If not used at one point in time, the receiver must read this and continue to work to be tion on another occasion and so on.
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