This trouble-shooting hockey coaching plan is designed to improve your team's performance in the overload and to cut down on turnovers!
Coach's problem:
My team repeatedly make brilliant attacking runs up-field and created a lot of 2 vs 1 situations that we simply didn't manage to put away, more often than not because the final pass wasn't there.
The solution:
I used this session with my team to help teach my players how commit the defender in the attacking third before skillfully slotting the ball past their left foot (weak side) to a supporting team-mate!
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