Hockey Play Book: Teaching Systems to Amateur Players » (Reprint)

Michael A. Smith has been involved in hockey for over 40 years as a player, as a coach and as general manager of the New York Rangers, Colorado Rockies, Chicago Blackhawks and Team USA. He was an adviser for the National Hockey League and has traveled extensively as a lecturer and studied European training methods in Russia and Sweden. The author of six books on hockey, he lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

A practical handbook for hockey coaches features systems for defensive, offensive and special-team situations, as well as skill building drills. Includes 500 step-by-step diagrams, teaching strategies, conservative and aggressive systems.

Section One: Defensive Play

• Introduction
  

• Introduction
• Standard Triangle
• 1-2-2
• 1-4
• 3-2 Check
• 1-1-3 Off-Wing Stay Back
• 2-3 One Wing Always Back
• Wings Chase and Center Forechecks
• 2-1-2
• Aggressive 2-1-2
• One Wing Always Deep
• Aggressive Overload
• 3-2 Press
• 1-2-2 Everything to the Net
• 3-1-1 Press
• Drills
  

• Introduction
• 1-2-2
• 1-1-3
• 2-1-2
• Drills
  

• Introduction
• Zone Defense
• Combination Zone and Man-to-Man
• Box Plus One
• Drills
  

• Introduction
  

• Introduction
• Positional Play
• Plays
• Board Play
• Plays
• Free-Flowing System
• Plays
• Drills
  

• Introduction
• Positional Play
• Drills
• Forwards Crisscross
• Drills
• Regroup Free Movement
• Drills
• Neutral Zone Attack
• Plays
  

• Introduction
• Positional Play
• Drills
• Triangular Offense
• Drills
• Overload the Slot
• Drills
  

• Introduction
  

• Introduction
• The Funnel
• Drills
• 2-1-2
• Drills
• Defensemen Slide
• Drills
• Wings Play theOff-Side
• 1-2-2
• Plays
• Man in Front of the Net
• From the Corner
• Czech Power Play
• Plays
• Diamond Formation
  

• Introduction
• 0-4
• 1-3
• 2-2
• Drills
• Tight Box
• Wide Box
• Movable Box
• Drills
  

• Introduction
• Offensive Face-Offs
• Defensive Face-Offs
• Neutral Zone Face-Offs
• Drills