Growing up playing in the '70s and '80s, the game was very different. Coaching in the '10s and '20s, we all need to embrace the new direction. Your videos are invaluable to that end. Keep up the good work.

Thank you. I’m really trying to elevate my beer league skills (no joke) since I started skating well into my 30s. This helps me conceptualize positioning a better

This is prob one of the most helpful vids I’ve seen so far

Excellent pointers! Realy is simple stuff but easy to forget in the heat of the moment.

Just started playing a month ago, im in a D league obviously and they have me playing wing. These videos are great man! thank you.

I’m an intermediate player and these tips make a lot sense! As a winger, boxing and a quick outlet pass to my center is bread and butter. It woks so well and the breakout is fast, which also can lead to an odd man rush if you get a jump into the play.

Excellent video. Thanks and appreciate your excellent coaching style. Any chance you could make a video on a) best practice options for forwards entering the zone and b) positioning and options for forwards and defense to hold the offensive zone?

Super useful insights and tips for breakouts. Thanks for sharing !

Thanks a lot for these videos and i hope more are coming. They are helpful from Pee-Wee to the beer leaguers who want to do better at the local pick-up. Very appreciated.

This is perfect and will be added into our video review this week. Boys are struggling with the pinch right now and I love the concept on the strong side boards

Love the page pal, great info as always. Keep up the good work!

Really instructive! I like the idea of the center a bit lower than the traditional ‘up ice’ positioning. Also like the 45 degree pass to the center down low. I hate that some coaches eliminate 1/3 of the ice. We’ll done!!!

Used to play right wing as a right winger...and now playing left wing. Yes, it seems to work much better to take the outlet on the forehand....and protect the puck from the pinching defenseman. If I'm pulling the attention of the forecheck on the defenseman, then I often pass the puck back to the defense....giving the defense more room for another outlet. If the pressure is mostly from behind, then I either bounce it off the boards and past the blueline...or feed a breaking out centreman.

Awesome video. Some great concepts in here.

I Appreciate your videos and the time it must take to put them together. The perspective you give; What doesn't work, What does and when. It's much easier to see and remember compared to ~~~~X's - - - - > O's Thank You

never learned hockey but I am a passionate beer leaguer. those videos are goooold! thank you so much

Beautiful Analysis

Wow thank you for this it was very helpfull. Might even show this my coach 😅😅

Really nicely done. I like your direct and succinct style.

Great breakdown! I agree with you on 3) Winger Positioning. I don’t think that is controversial at all for a smart, efficient team concept. When watching the game, I often see turnovers occur during breakouts as defensemen and wingers are bunched too close together in their DZ, resulting in one player possessing the puck, feeling the pressure from a forechecker and making a desperate pass to that nearby teammate. This usually is an errant pass, into their teammates skate, and is prime for a takeaway. It is making a bad situation worse. The winger creates more space for their team to breakout and balances their team transitioning from offense to defense. My biggest pet peeve watching a game is when a player makes a seemingly lazy backhand pass in a clearing attempt or breakout, which doesn’t clear the DZ and is prone to a takeaway. Advancing the puck efficiently up ice is critical and turnovers on either blue line will cost you more often than not.

Great Video! What do you use to edit the videos? Thanks

Awesome as always! Just one question though, if not in front of the goal, where should the defender be? Behind the goal for the pass or further up between the hash marks? Thanks

Great video thank you

Thanks for telling me I don’t have to hold the goalie’s hand. I thought I was “doing the right thing” by staying near the post. Makes sense to be engaged, helping out, or providing a passing option. Thank you!

i need a video for wing on the face off position in the offensive and defensive zones

I'd love for you to video some of the drills you use to develop wingers breakout skills, handing F3 and pinching D pressure.

Great videos. Rather than freezing the frame it would be cool if you could play it in slow motion frame by frame so we get the idea of the momentum of the play as you are speaking about it. Just an idea.

Very informative, high quality 10 or 11 minutes.

Thanks brother. Good stuff. I’m playing at a higher DIV than I’ve been used to - or rather I don’t have the same foot speed that helped me at 22 (now 42) and so have to rely on more hockey IQ. Same boat as those growing up playing Center - but also played lots of D - so the breakout on the boards , as a now winger, is my kryptonite. I either try to chip it past the D which gets blocked - or try to turn and make a flip up the ice and gets blocked. And this is only if there isn’t the center swing you were referencing. Do you advise taking more time with the puck - ie making a play possibly back to the D if I have no support? Or worst case eating it on the wall hoping for some back-up? I feel like I’ve been ‘lucky’ in spinning and throwing a pass across to the weak side (me being near blue line) but don’t always know how its gonna end up lol

Great video! what software are you using to draw this up?

Can you turn CC on please, thanks!

Another great video!

Great clip as usual. Funny thing is, as a young man I played as a right shooting LW. And this is not boasting, believe me, but on my line I never seemed to have much trouble dealing with a pinching D, and making the right play- even if it was simply to eat it on the half wall. Yet our right shooting RW, would sometimes cause a turnover and our coach would - well let’s just say - the coach seemed like was on him a lot more than he was on me. And back then, I was pretty sure the only difference between me and that RW was that I was playing off wing and he was not. Lol. Yet no one mentioned anything about that. I think it’s clearly easier to keep the puck safe playing off wing, and that + the benefit of having your stick to the middle in the offensive zone was what I’d always appreciated about playing off wing as a young person. 😀

I agree with all points, except there is one consideration on the center lane pass on the breakout and that is how likely your center is to miss the puck. With my players it happens about 50% of the time unfortunately. I instruct the D to make the pass hard from there so that it is more likely to exit the zone if missed.

On the second oilers breakout, Yamamotos play on the boards resulted in him getting an assist. It just goes to show how a good break out will get you one the scoresheet. Every little play matters.

Great video!

Great work

Nice video!

Great video

I need up my game defensive and offensive as a wingers

I found your comment, its the wave of the future, funny because growing up in the 80s/90s, that's how we were taught. Wingers high, Centre is support low. In the Defensive zone, Wingers take D and D take wingers. Thinks of the old table top hockey games, those wingers never came very low.

What is so important here is that the center should always face the puck and be low until it moves up.

What does strong side and weak side defenseman mean? Thx 🙏🏼🙌🏼

What video editing app do you use for adding graphics to your videos?

Cool

What's an F3?