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MUSINGS FROM THE BENCH

The team locker room is at the core of a team’s everyday routine.

As a coach, we can facilitate our team's ability to communicate and bond by putting some thought into how the locker room looks and feels.

No dedicated space, no problem.

If you are lucky enough to have a dedicated space for your locker room, this becomes much easier. But if your team is always in a different space at the rink, you can still make sure that your space is conducive to strong lines of communication.

Things to Try

1. Set a locker room seating plan. Put some thought into who you want to sit next to each other. Post this in the team chat before the game.

2. Captains spread out throughout the room. Having your captain's voices come from different areas of your space can improve player engagement in conversation.

3. Have older players with young players, or players with different skill sets with each other.

4. Have all the defense and forwards together so they can discuss tactics and strategies.

5. Place F lines and D partners together so that communication between periods can be achieved more easily.

6. Change the seating plan throughout the season. This can give players more opportunities to get to know each other better.

We would be interested to hear some of your thoughts on the locker room set up and personnel placement.

Have you considered locker room set up? How can you help your players communicate in a more streamlined manner?

SYSTEM OF THE WEEK

Four Player Entry with Dot Drive and Wide Option

Four player entries give your team extra options when attacking off the rush.

1. Puck carrier enters the zone, F2 drive near dot to pull close D away from puck carrier.

2. F3/D1 drives wide dot as a wide pass option.

3. D2/F3 drives high into the zone to be an option for delay or drop pass.

4. Puck carrier can pass wide, slip pass to F2, or delay.

DRILL OF THE WEEK

3 vs 0 D Join Entry

This drill promotes D joining the rush and F2 dot drive.

1. F1 leaves with the puck and makes a pass to D 

2. D skates backwards with puck under the blue line and makes a pass to F2 that leaves the front of the line when the D steps up ice.

3. D works to get up ice to fill 3/4 ice lane for 3-0 attack.

4. Both sides at same time

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

PERFORMANCE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

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