Kanata
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U16 B · Team Room · 2026–27
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Next on the ice
Tue
7:15pPractice · 60 min
Kanata Rec — Pad 2 Doors 6:40 · Taped and dressed by 7:05
Theme: D-zone box + strong-side lock. Come knowing where your stick goes.
D-zone Neutral O-zone
Three things this week
  • If your check is on the wall, your stick is on the ice between him and the net — not poking at the puck. We gave up four goals last month off second chances because we watched the shot instead of finding a body.
  • Coming back for the breakout, plant your feet at the hash marks and give a stick target. Curling out of the zone early turns a clean pass into an icing.
  • Approach on an angle so the D's only option is up the wall — where F2 is already sitting. Straight-line forechecking lets them escape to the middle every time.
Latest clip
1:12
What a good D-zone box looks like
  • Watch the weak-side winger's head — he checks the slot twice before the shot
  • Nobody chases below the goal line
Schedule Full season Availability Mark yourself out Playbook Systems + terms Ask the coaches Anonymous

Tuesday's plan

60 minutes · Kanata Rec Pad 2 · Theme: defensive-zone coverage

Ice plan
  • Full-ice flow, two lines. Tight turns both directions — we are asking for a lot of pivots in the D-zone this week, so warm them up properly.
  • Purpose: get the shape automatic before the puck makes it messy. Five skaters hold the box and shift with a coach's pass. If your head is on a swivel, you're doing it right.
  • Purpose: box-out habits under pressure. D wins body position, forward supports the net front. Whistle on every goal — reset fast.
  • Purpose: connect the coverage to the exit. Wingers stop on the wall — that's the whole drill. If you curl, we run it again.
  • Small-area game, loser skates. Keep it loud.
Last practice, in one line

Breakout timing was much better on the second half — the first pass was up and out instead of around the wall. Net-front coverage is still the gap. That's why two of tonight's blocks live below the goal line.

Video room

Short clips, one or two teaching points each. If a clip has no point on it, it isn't up here.

This week
1:12
What a good D-zone box looks like
  • Weak-side winger checks the slot twice before the shot
  • Nobody chases below the goal line
0:48
Stopping on the wall — us, last Saturday
  • Two clean exits, one icing. Same read, different feet
1:35
F1 angle: three examples
  • Approach line takes away the middle before the stick does
  • F2 is already on the wall in all three
Playbook shelf

Forecheck 2‑1‑2 · D-zone box+1 · Breakouts (wheel, reverse, up) · Power play 1‑3‑1 · Penalty kill wedge · Terminology sheet

Week 3 — lower + core

In-season maintenance. Two sessions this week, at least a day apart, and never the day before a game.

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Nothing checked yet

Tick things off as you go. Rest 60–90 seconds between sets.

    Something hurting? Skip it and tell a coach — no version of this is worth playing through a real injury. Sore is fine, sharp is not.

    How did it feel?

    After your second session, log effort 1–10 and anything that bothered you. It takes ten seconds and it changes what we program next week.

    Log this week 30 secondsExercise demos Video

    How we're playing

    Team habits first. These are the numbers we can actually control.

    Last 5 games
    Clean D-zone exits68%

    Target 75%. Was 54% in September.

    Forecheck pressure forced turnovers11/gm

    Best number on the team sheet. Keep it.

    Shots from the home-plate area44%

    Too many from the point with no traffic.

    Second chances given up4.2/gm

    This is the one. Hence Tuesday's plan.

    Yours
    14GP
    6G
    9A
    21Recoveries

    Only you and the coaches see this page's bottom half. We don't post player-by-player boards.

    What we're chasing

    Team · to the end of January
    75% clean exits, five games running3/5
    Under 3 second chances against per game1/5
    Full bench on the boards after every whistleEvery game
    Yours · you picked these
    Win my first battle on every shiftYou

    Reviewed monthly with a coach.

    Shoot inside the dots more than outsideYou
    Talk on every breakoutCoach
    After the game

    Three questions, once a week: What worked? What did we learn? What's next? Answers stay between you and the coaching staff.

    Post-game reflection 2 minutesAnonymous question Nobody sees your name