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Benefits of Hockey Made Easy

How Can Hockey Made Easy Help You,
Your Team and Your Program?

If you're coaching or playing minor hockey, youth hockey or girl's hockey in any of the 5 to 12 year old age categories of House League to "AAA" Travel Programs the information contained in the Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manual will help you:

• Improve your skill level and performance
• Become more competitive while still having fun learning to play hockey
• Win more games
• Score more goals
• Prevent goals
• Improve your goaltending
• Improve your power play
• Improve your penalty killing
• Improve your team’s conditioning
• Prepare you mentally and physically for the playoffs

Benefits to Coaches, Parents and Players of House League or ‘AAA’ Teams

Hockey Made Easy—Canada’s Best Instruction Manual contains over 220 pages, 2,000 tips and 200 illustrations and drills. It can be used to:

Teach - male and female players from 5 to 12 years of age and other older players everything they need to know including:

• Valuable hockey terms and expressions
• Objectives of offensive and defensive hockey
• Playing rules–explaining offside and icings
• Penalties–minor, major, match and misconduct, what causes them and how to prevent them
• Protective equipment–selection, cost, size, fit, safety and dressing order to put it on
• Basic skills–including all individual and team skills, as well as multiple systems and game strategies
• It will help you become more competitive, win more games, score more goals, prevent goals, improve your goaltending, improve your power play and penalty killing, improve your team’s conditioning and prepare you mentally and physically for the playoffs including offering a winning strategy

Practice - Information to help Coaches run organized tryout camps and practices including:

• Developing practice plans for both on ice and off-ice sessions
• How to run organized up-tempo and/or station-to-station practices
• Use of specific drills to achieve specific results
• Developing individual game plans and strategies for different opposing teams

Review - Basic Hockey concepts with young players at practice, in the gym or at a team meeting:

• Positional play and interchangeable positions for forwards and defencemen
• Clearing or breakout plays
• 1 or 2 man forechecking system
• 1 or 2 man backchecking system
• Defencemen how to play 1 on 1, 2 on 1 and 3 on 1 situations, net coverage and corner work
• Strategies used for different playing situations on different size ice surfaces
  Power play and penalty killing systems

Test - Your Players to reinforce their understanding of concepts

• Verbally question your players on past units
• Develop written questionnaires
• Physically test players on skating speed, passing accuracy, shooting speed, scoring methods, positional play

Inform - Coaches of specific hockey information they need to understand such as:

Composition of lines, defence pairings, goaltending skills, on-ice balance, offensive triangles, balanced scoring
How to release a player at tryout camp, signing of player cards, player releases, use of affiliate players

• Save Time - The Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manual will save you valuable teaching and instruction time at practice.
  
  Progressive coaches encourage their players to purchase a copy of the Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manual, then ask them to study a specific section at home prior to practice to ensure less ice time is spent on explaining and more time is spent on executing the drill. If every player had a copy, every team member would be on the same page.

Improve - I guarantee, if coaches utilize the teaching concepts and information contained in this manual, they will see a dramatic improvement in the performance of individual players and the team by the end of the season. Players will have fun, the team will rise to the upper level of league standings and be competitive in the playoffs.

Bonus - As a valuable bonus, you will receive the 30-page ‘Parents and Coaches Teaching Guide’ free of charge with the purchase of the complete 220-page Hockey Made Easy Instruction Manual.

• This Teaching Guide will show you how to teach players in this 5 to 12 age bracket in 5 easy sessions.