GHC Pre-season Camp Practices 3-4
Practice Three
10’ Transition skate shooting
15’ Three 5’ games 4-4 or 5-5. Pass to your D at pont to be on offense.
13’. Dizzy
15’ Full ice 5-5. At least one pass each zone.
10’ angling
12’ Fitness. Speed scoring x 2
Practice Four
10’. Give and go shots
15’ Krusel 2-2 or 3-3 each end and middle.
12’. Small horseshoe 1-0 and 2-0
8’ 3-0 Tomas NZ Regroup
7’ 3-0 regroup. 3-2 other way.
13’. Continuous 2-2 and 3-2
10’. F - D400 - 1-1 x 2 x 2 – Pro
GHC Pre-season Camp - Practice 5
Practice Five
10’. A300 Skating and Puck Handling Warmup - U15 G
10’ B4 - 1-0 Outside-Middle Shots Czech U17
15’ One net Kings Court Games x 3 on - Modified rule of two pass.
10’ Read the rush. 1-1 or 2-2 or 3-1
10’ 3 one net games. Choose between 1-5 players 15’ full ice 5-5 game
10' D200 - 3-3 Game - Change on Their Own
10' D100 Full ice 5-5 game
Tryouts
Our season has started. Ran three conditioning practices Thursday.
Today tryouts started. 140 players trying for 3 teams. Those who don’t make it play in a lower division.
We play 5-5 games, no drills. Our coaching staff watches the game and then meet during the flood and do an overall ranking then watch the next game and repeat. After two games we submit our ranking and the executive lets the players know if they are invited back to the next evaluation games. We start with 8 teams, then 6, then 4 and then the three coaching staffs meet with the chairman and we draft three teams. We play against the top teams in our Province.
Tonight and Sunday 8 teams play and we rank them in the 4 games.
T-Th we cut 2 teams and we evaluate them 3 games each night.
Friday-Sat 4 teams play 2 more games each. We watch and rank them.
Sunday morning we draft our 3 teams in a snake draft. Straws for draft order then a snake draft by position. 1-2-3-3-1-2-2-3-1-1-2-3 etc.
Each team a few extra players to make final decisions on after a few ex games, then name our 18 skaters and 2 goalies. Late cuts are affiliates.
I think this format gives every player a fair chance.
Watched 4 games tonight. 12 more to go.
Diary of a Season 2024-25
We are coaching for Girls Hockey Calgary again. It starts this weekend with a pre season conditioning camp for the various age groups. u13-U15-U18. I have been asked to prepare five practices for the two older groups. Each practice has a warm up, SAG game or transition game, full ice pass and shoot, full ice game situation drill and a full ice game and four finish with a fitness skate. I will attach the pdf at the bottom.
Practice One U15-U18
15. Balance and edges.
10’ Overspeed
12’ Two pass at each net
13’. Machine gun
15’ Russian scrimmage
10’ Fitness skate - dot. Middle. Dot. Boards x 2
Practice Two
12’ Zig zag 4 options.
15’ Games of quick transition at each net
13’ Multiple pass and 1-1
15’ power play game
10’ Poddy 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2
10’ Ladder skate
'Enjoy the Game'