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How to
prepare for a Youth/Minor
Hockey Rep team tryout
Start training at least 1 or 2 months prior to the tryout
camp
Do Conditioning – long distance running,
bicycling, swimming
– sprint
running, running up hills or stairs, skipping rope
Weight training to develop and strengthen wrists...
On ice skating
practice for speed, agility, turns, stops, starts...
Attending a hockey school in late August
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Rep. Team,
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Skills required to make a
Rep Team
Make a positive first
impression at tryout camp
Give 100 %
effort every drill and scrimmage shift
Display
scoring skills
Checking ability to
create a turnover or loose pick
To Score More Goals
Shoot puck yourself
Get puck through to the net
Pass to player in a better scoring position
Get to rebounds...
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“Hockey Made Easy
Instruction Manual”
Skills required to become an
excellent two way forward
Skating speed, agility and conditioning
Passing and receiving skills – gets into
open to receive pass
Shooting and scoring skills – when
and where to shoot
Forechecking
and backchecking skills to create turnovers
Skills required to become
a Number
1 defenceman
Prevent goals
Good backward skater and can do 180
degree pivots
Execute stick checks to create loose puck...
Playing 1 on 1’s
and 2 on 1’s correctly
Blocks shots
Skills required to become
a number 1 goaltender
Ability to stop first shot
Set positioning square to shooter and
puck
Quick hands and feet – catching
skills
Controls rebounds
To improve players Shooting
Skills and Puck Velocity
Wrist shot- drag puck, snap wrist, follow through
Backhand shot – same as wrist shot
but on backhand side
Slap shot- hit ice 2 to 3 inches
behind puck, drag forward
Snap shot- half wrist shot, half slap shot
How to win more games
Practice on ice, or off ice, weekly in a gymnasium
Score more goals, practice different scoring methods
Finding open receiver with a pass,
head man the puck
On ice discipline
and
Take fewer penalties
Skills required to skate
faster
Knees
always flexed forward beyond your toes
Feet shoulder width apart
V starts with skates almost
90 degrees to direction you want to go
Push with inside edges
Skills required to
Forecheck
correctly
The
goal of forechecking is to recover a loose puck
Play the puck carrier
and
angle him into boards
Finish the check and pin him to the boards
Create a loose puck
Skills required to
Backcheck
correctly
The
goal of backchecking is to prevent a goal against
To comeback into your own end to help
your defense
To
eliminate odd man rushes and cover open
man
To recover any rebounds or loose pucks
How to play defensive hockey
Defensive
hockey begins when your team loses the
puck
Try
to regain possession of puck in the offensive zone
In neutral zone backcheck
and cover open man
intercept passes and watch for any give
aways
How to play offensive hockey
Offensive hockey begins when your team recovers the puck
In defensive zone get into
clearing play positions
In neutral zone spread out wide
In the offensive zone try to
create a 2 on 1 situation
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