10/22/2017 - Practice Plan

Time	Drill
5 Min	Active Stretching
2:00 PM to 2:30 PM	Scrimmage with 2025
2:30 PM to 3:00 PM	Scrimmage with 2023 or Situation Review West Genny Face Off into a 4v4 or 5v4
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Clearing Stations Split kids into these 3 groups: Attack, Middie, Defense Defense Group with 1 goalie Have 3 defense cluster in front of the goal Goalie with the ball yells clear, 2 defense go to the side at GLE, 1 goes top right Goalie passes to one at GLE, that D passes to the other GLE D, and then passes to the D near the mid line Rotate all Defense in Midfield Group with 1 goalie location at the midline Two midfield stand about 10 yards apart passing to each other Goalie yells clear and they pass to the goalie Both middies banana cut out and goalie passes to one. The other Middie takes off down field, banana cutting to receive a pass from the first Middie Attack Group 3 Attack take the field 2 attack stay near the midline and 1 attack is halfway to goal from the midline Coach passes the ball to one of the top attack, the attack closest to goal runs to X The other high attack takes off down the field looking for a pass. Takes the pass and either shoots or passes to the guy at X X attack goes around goal and looks for attack that made the pass driving to goal Original attack breaks to goal looking for a pass and goes to X, attack adjust to 2 GLE and 1 at x
10 Min	Skeleton Clears, with all 10 guys
5 Min	Water
5 Min	Talk About Ground Balls Its important to teach your players about how controlling ground balls can win games. The following points are good pieces of information to tell your kids. The team that wins more "GB's" is going to get extra possessions and extra chances to score. It is that simple. These extra possessions are also likely to be followed by "unsettled situations,"- a 4-on-3 Fast Break or 5-on-4 Slow Break of some kind. Transition goals are easier to score because there is almost always an unbalance of players Always scoop and and move the ball Let's work on calling Ball/Man and not Man/Ball Its important to make quick passes down field after winning a ground ball. The concept of "ground ball - pass - pass" gives us a high chance of scoring After a ground ball, two guys should look to be adjacent for a quick pass, and someone should be backside pipe Ground Ball Statistics The team with the most possessions has a greater chance of winning the game At the College Division 1 level each team gathers approx 30 ground balls per game If you win exactly 50% of the ground balls you have a 50% chance of winning the game The more ground balls you win the higher percentage your chance of winning the game are Most ground balls are won after faceoffs Let's say there are 60 ground balls per game. If our team wins 35 and they win 25 we now have a 60% chance of winning the game Teams with a -5 ground ball differential win only about 1/4 of their games If we win 10 more ground balls per game then our competition we have a 70% chance of winning the game http://www.laxpower.com/content/mauboussin/stats_analysis.php?page=2
10 Min	Huntley Canadian Shooing Drill Canadian players catch and shoot with their inside hands. We teach kids to catch on the outside, and run down the alley with their stick to the outside for shooting. Coach Huntley has done statistical analysis to determine you have a 25% increase chance of scoring if you shoot with the inside. So if going down the right alley, catch across your helmet and shoot with the left hand. Place two lines of kids at the top of the box at the alleys Place a bunch of loose balls behind the goal on each side Put a player the right side at the 5 by 5, he feeds a guy running down the right alley with his stick in his left hand The key is to make players shoot with the hand that is inside to the alley That player shoots far side pipe, and then immediately scoops a ball from the opposite side behind the goal, curls and feeds a guy coming down the alley on the same side. Keep repeating on both sides of the alley
10 Min	2 v 1 GB Teaching point is to call out "Ball/Man" Make 3 lines of kids The outside two lines are on the same team Coach rolls out a ball The two man team does Ball/Man and both must touch the ball Box Out, no slapping sticks Variation: Put a goalie in cage, and add an another defender and offensive guy, and turn it into a 3 on 2
5 Min	Water
10 Min	Face-Off to Fastbreak Put a goalie in the net and 3 attack and 3 defense Have your middies at the midline in two lines on opposite sides of the field 4 middies are in the drill at once. Two middies face off, the middie line on their butt end side is on their team We do the face off, the face off guys, look to pop the ball out to a wing guy, the wing guy that wins it goes down for a fast break, the other players are out of the game play Keep score on each side of the midfield Alternatives: Have a chaser middie after 2-3 seconds and have the face-off middie go mono vs mono
5 Min	Push Ups and sprints