Attn: Coaches - Player Development Friday Information
Oct. 24, 2019
Coaches,
SMHA has ice booked for Player Development on Fridays 5:45-6:45pm. Coaches are able to come out on the ice with their specific players and work on a specific set of skills. This is not a practice for the whole team and there will be multiple age groups on the ice at a time. Example: If we are working on faceoffs people will not be working on skating and shooting etc. I will be asking some coaches to come out and help lead some of the specific skills. The idea is to allow specific focuses on skill development that will save you time in your practices.
Some sessions will require to be signed up ahead of time. I will let you know then.
Our calendar looks like:
October 18th Goalie Day #1 . Bring out your goalies and work on goalie specific skills. Steve Whitney will be there to work with Atom and Novice goalies, coaches please feel free to join him. Peewee and older Coaches, if your game schedule permits to come Friday please work with your own goalies, or as a group.
October 25th Coaches Day: Coaches come out, share ideas, learn, and go through some drills that require our development tools. Check out drills for rebounders, goalie band, tires and tripods. Tools will be set up for coaches to try and share how they use specific tools in their practices.
Nov 1st Faceoff Day with Refs. Coaches bring out your centre men and work on faceoff specifics while a ref drops the puck.
Nov 8th Wingers day - Bring out Wings and work on picking up rims, chipping pucks out and exiting the defensive zone.
Nov 22nd. Defence- come to work on defence specific skills and skating with exit moves and manouvers
Dec 13th Goalie Day #2 Try it night for young players looking to try goaltending.
We will see how these times are utilized, if things go well we will continue the program after Christmas.