Breakfast Club: Week 8
Excellent drills today. Passing drills, I need more of it. Put some "stuff" on that pass, puck on the heel, hands in front you. Doesn't it feel good when you nail a hard tape-to-tape pass? I absolutely love the sound of the puck hitting the blade. Somebody should market a CD, "The sounds of hockey", this is a moneymaker folks, my idea.
Other drills, mostly two or three players moving into the zone, passing, getting into shooting position, get the shot off, another shot passed Ronnie, oh yeah! For me, sometimes I feel I need a road map on where to go and what to do during plays like this. But in hockey of course there is no such thing because the landscape is changing every couple seconds. Lyle said today hockey isn't like football, one play at a time. I got to thinking, which is dangerous, "Igor, you block the guy in front of you until you hear the whistle, got it? Yes master." How hard can that be? Lyle is right, begrudgingly, we need to understand the concepts and develop the play in our head on the fly, a lot harder isn't it? Where is the puck carrier going? Who is going to the net? Who is high slot? Where is the open ice? Where is the D? Does Ronnie have his good eye open or shut? Sorry, no more Ronnie jokes. Actually, all of us have to be like a football quarterback on the ice. Hockey players are on the top of the sport intelligence food chain, no doubt about it. I think a skill progress check is when you feel your thinking is more and more fluid instead of mechanical. Keep the road map in the car glove compartment; men don't use stinking maps anyway.
Scottie O was notably absent today. The commitment meter reads negative 3. Okay, the big game at the Joe was yesterday; I understand it was a great time and a great game. Kind of cool to play on that ice isn't it? Can you imagine if the seats were filled and fans were yelling and watching you play? Maybe in a couple more years. I couldn't make it yesterday, I deserved the abuse on that. I'm still training my employer on the importance of me playing hockey in the morning and I’ll get to work when I get there. We've been working on this for seven years and a little more time is needed. I'm out of town midweek so I'll miss week 9. See ya at the last session, Kirk out.
Other drills, mostly two or three players moving into the zone, passing, getting into shooting position, get the shot off, another shot passed Ronnie, oh yeah! For me, sometimes I feel I need a road map on where to go and what to do during plays like this. But in hockey of course there is no such thing because the landscape is changing every couple seconds. Lyle said today hockey isn't like football, one play at a time. I got to thinking, which is dangerous, "Igor, you block the guy in front of you until you hear the whistle, got it? Yes master." How hard can that be? Lyle is right, begrudgingly, we need to understand the concepts and develop the play in our head on the fly, a lot harder isn't it? Where is the puck carrier going? Who is going to the net? Who is high slot? Where is the open ice? Where is the D? Does Ronnie have his good eye open or shut? Sorry, no more Ronnie jokes. Actually, all of us have to be like a football quarterback on the ice. Hockey players are on the top of the sport intelligence food chain, no doubt about it. I think a skill progress check is when you feel your thinking is more and more fluid instead of mechanical. Keep the road map in the car glove compartment; men don't use stinking maps anyway.
Scottie O was notably absent today. The commitment meter reads negative 3. Okay, the big game at the Joe was yesterday; I understand it was a great time and a great game. Kind of cool to play on that ice isn't it? Can you imagine if the seats were filled and fans were yelling and watching you play? Maybe in a couple more years. I couldn't make it yesterday, I deserved the abuse on that. I'm still training my employer on the importance of me playing hockey in the morning and I’ll get to work when I get there. We've been working on this for seven years and a little more time is needed. I'm out of town midweek so I'll miss week 9. See ya at the last session, Kirk out.
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