Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Sweeney Drill

Monday, September 17, 2012

Sweeney Drill - 1 v 0

Techniques:

Passing & receiving passes

Tactics:

Control skating
Timing

Keys:

See the puck
Two way communication between passer & receiver

One player per lane

Have your stick on the ice
Have your stick at a right angle to receive puck

Terms:

Control skate, communicate & accelerate

Sweeney Drill: Flow drill to work on control skating, timing and passing. This is a continuous drill working from both ends. After the pass or shot, players go to next line.

1 starts the dill after shot
1 & 2 exchange lanes
1 passes to 2
2 & 3 exchanges lanes
2 passes to 3 at blue line

Progressions

Entering Zone Wide:

Add 4th player to rebound

Attacking Middle Seam:

Add 4th player to rebound

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 1)

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 2)

Power Thoughts:

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it:
1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.” Paul "Bear" Bryant (Great Football Coach)

Jeremiah 24:6

I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.

"I believe that my work is as much about words as basketball. Choosing the right words to say to players is no less important than picking the starting line-up or court strategies.”

-Mike Krzyzewski

Sports Psychology Tips:

Create Vision for Your Players:

Great leaders, teachers, coaches and counselors very often, see potential in other people that they can’t see in themselves. It our job as a coach to provide vision into them. Players often need to be told what they can become. Players need to be told what is possible. Players want direction for their life. Your words have the power to lift players up, push them in the right direction and create a vision for their future.