Learn passing and receiving progressions like never before.
Less than two minutes into this on-ice TCS Live presentation from Kris Beech and Yogi Svejkovský, a mind-blowing stat is revealed: 660 passes are attempted in an average NHL game, with a 72% completion rate. Digging deeper: 202 of those are contested passes.
That’s at hockey’s highest level. The numbers get a lot lower for attempted and completed passes as you drop down levels, to the point that many youth hockey games are turnover battles.
The mission is then clear: how can uncompleted passes become completed?
“At the youth level, we have to encourage players to share the puck and understand it’s a good thing to move the puck.”
At TCS Live 2023, Beech, the DHA Mental Performance Coach & Skating Coach, as well as U15 Prep Green Head Coach, with Delta Hockey Academy and the Founder of AIM Mindfulness, and Yogi, the Skills Coach for the Vancouver Canucks, as well as Director of Coach Development & U17 Prep Assistant Coach with Delta Hockey Academy, focused on not only how to make good passes, but also how to receive passes properly.
Watch this 35-minute presentation to learn progressions for technical passing/receiving skills and playmaking vision, illustrating the steps used at the 10U level that translate into advancements in progressions at the 14U level, in addition to the characteristics of good passers and receivers, techniques for contested passes, as well as multiple pass options depending on the situation.
Noteworthy timestamps:
- 01:20 Intro to situational passing
- 02:50 What makes a good passer and receiver?
- 03:50 Contested passing techniques
- 07:00 Maneuvering around stick on puck checking
- 09:45 Drill: Situational Pass/Receive
- 15:20 Drill: Track and Strip OZP A
- 22:00 Drill: Track and Strip OZP B1
- 25:50 Drill: Track and Strip OZP B2
- 34:00 Drill: 3 Player Passing Warmup
