Week 11 - Improvements and Awareness

I am very proud of the boys this weekend. We faced several tough teams and persevered. While we were ultimately stopped in the Gold medal game, we got a Silver upgrade to go with our Bronze in Richmond. We still have 3 more tournaments to chase the elusive gold.

This weekend, the team showed off a lot of very positive play that resembled a lot like the way they have been practicing. A lot of puck movement, a lot of team work, and a lot of gritty hard work. If we keep playing as we are and improving the rough edges, the second half of this season is going to look really amazing.

Keep up the work, and keep thinking about these things:

• Scan
• Communicate
• No gliding
• Physical, but clean!

Several of the goals are a result of still needing work on these things above, so keep that in mind as you play and practice.

Tuesday practice was cancelled by the tournament games. Wednesday is an optional skate and will be light with an emphasis on individual skill work. Thursday we will run a full, normal practice. You will probably see that the practice plan is not complete on Wednesday. I will finalize the plan on Thursday morning for Thursday practice. For Wednesday, we will be making it up on the fly.

See everyone on the ice!

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• Practice Week 11

Extra reading:

• Watch the coaching clips in the practice plan.
• Look First! Why the ‘Pre-Scan’ is the Secret to Playing Faster and Slowing the Game Down

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