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C Options: A coaching framework for developing well-rounded playmakers

Details: Last Updated on Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:31

By Jonathan Lindahl

Prior to an early-season Junior Gold game a year ago, I stood at our locker room whiteboard and doodled a picture which was quickly and universally appraised as non-identifiable. Though, after some gentle prodding, followed by several heavy-handed hints, the team finally acknowledged that what its coach had clumsily diagrammed was a carbon monoxide detector.

Appropriately, the next sentiments were, “Ok, now what? Where on earth is he going with this?” So I proceeded to make my point – about how as a puck carrier, wherever you are on the ice, there is always a layering of options regarding what you should be looking to do, sort of a hierarchy of puck management. Based on the location on the rink and other specific circumstances, there are “A Options” (the ideal or most preferred choices) and “B Options” (less preferred but still productive alternatives).

Leap Day movie premiere: “Eat, Sleep, Hockey”

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Young Professionals of Minnesota (YPM) and North Metro TV are pleased to announce the movie premiere “Eat, Sleep, Hockey” on Wednesday, Feb. 29, at Andover Cinema. Last year North Metro TV began filming two local hockey families from rival schools, the Brodzinski family from Blaine and the Hughes family from Centennial. The end result is a short documentary that takes an inside look at what it is to be a hockey family in Minnesota.

This week's cover - February 16, 2012

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U.S. women ready for 2012 Bandy World Championships

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The roster for the U.S. Women’s National Bandy Team is in place, as the team prepares for the 2012 Women’s Bandy World Championships. This year’s tournament takes place Feb. 23-26, in Irkutsk, Russia, billed as a women’s bandy mecca. The outdoor stadiums that the team will be playing at in Russia are Trud Stadium, a 20,000-seat venue built in 1957, and Rekord Stadium, a 6,300 seater, by far the largest arenas a U.S. Women’s Bandy team has ever played in.

The Stand-up Goalie: F-bombs away!

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By Hans Eisenbeis

One of the great things about those recent TV series that go “behind the scenes” with NHL teams is that viewers get to see the professional game from ice level all the way back to the locker room, on to the team bus and beyond. And the first thing you notice about how the pros play the game is what filthy mouths these guys have. Coaches, players, equipment managers, the guy who sharpens skates – they all swear like sailors who’ve lost their liquor.