JUNIOR
HURRICANES
GOALIE
PROGRAM
AGENDA
• 1. PHILOSOPHY
• 2. DEAL WITH THE PSYCHE
• 3. COMMUNICATE
• 4. DESIGNATE A COACH TO BE ‘GOALIE COACH’
• 5. DESIGN YOUR DRILLS W/ GOALIE IN MIND
• 6. DRILLS
• 7. SUPPORT
• 8. SUMMARY
• 9. CONTACT INFO
• 10. QUESTIONS
1. PHILOSOPHY
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PHILOSOPHY
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JUNIOR HURRICANES – “WORK ETHIC & DISCIPLINE”
GOALIES – NO DIFFERENT, BUT ADD “HABIT & DETAIL”
• MUST COME TO PRACTICE WITH RIGHT
MINDSET: PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS AND
CREATE GOOD HABITS
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WHEN WE FIRST STARTED PROGRAM BACK IN 2006 ERA
– ALL FUNDAMENTALS, LED TO GREAT TECHNICAL
GOALIES BUT SLOW AND LAZY.
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NOW? HARD WORKING, FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND,
COMPETE TO BE BEST IN THE COUNTRY
WE ARE TRYING TO CREATE A CULTURE - HABIT AND
DETAIL. HARDEST WORKER. OUTWORK YOUR
OPPONENT. OUTWORK YOUR PARTNER. BE A FIGHTER.
THIS IS WAR. YOU WANT TO WIN? GO EARN IT!
2. DEAL WITH THE PSYCHE
How to Handle Your Goalies:
• As a coach, you spend most time with your goalies - More
than Goalie Instructor who can train them once a week.
• Ask yourself: what do you want in a goalie? What kind of
psyche? As a player, when you look behind you, what do
you want to see?
2. DEAL WITH THE PSYCHE
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2. DEAL WITH THE PSYCHE
(CONTINUED)
2. DEAL WITH THE PSYCHE
(CONTINUED)
• Ask yourself: what do you want in a goalie? What kind of
psyche?
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TOUGH
COMPETITIVE/FIGHTER
AGGRESSIVE
KID WHO “WANTS THE BALL”
• Then talk to them using these terms, structure your drills
and challenge them to behave this way. Design drills to be
competitive, count goals in practice, hold them
accountable.
3. COMMUNICATE
• Set your expectations up front
• For me: I want you to be the hardest worker on the
team, in best shape. “I will give you best
development for this – push you in drills, challenge
you to work hardest, you need to respond. You
need to “earn your ice time”. “Play each puck in
practice like you would in a game!”
• Treat them like you would for every other player.
• Do NOT be afraid to tell your G’s that they need to
work harder! Don’t be scared to get into their
heads! Part of our job is to help them learn to deal
with coaches, teachers and bosses who demand
excellence.
4. DESIGNATE SOMEONE TO
WORK WITH GOALIES
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Designate a coach to be responsible for goalies
• Someone who can have goalies as a focus
• He/she can work with Rich or Steve for drills
and points of emphasis each month
• This person can:
• Demand their best on each shot
• Hold them accountable in each drill (count goals
if necessary)
• Give them exercises before practice, once hit
ice and everyone is skating around (warm up
before hit the ice!), breaks in drills, after final
whistle – drills!
• Speak to them using terms to create the culture
(see #1 above).
5. DESIGN YOUR DRILLS
• Design Your Drills, then think “what will my goalies
be doing?” What are you trying to accomplish? If
you want them in shape – do conditioning drills in
downtime; if want them to handle puck – start it
with G making breakout pass. If struggling with
rebounds, incorporate a rebound aspect. If you
want second effort, have G coach count goals!
• #1 aspect: Give your goalie enough time to finish
each play:
• Set
• Save
• Rebound/Cover Puck
• Recover
5. DESIGN YOUR DRILLS
(CONTINUED)
• Biggest problem – coaches want goalies to work
harder so they design drills “up tempo” where
players are shooting, shooting, shooting. All you are
doing is creating bad habits. Goalie never finishes
the play, but then in a game he won’t finish the play,
will not be ready for rebounds.
• Remember – CREATE GOOD HABITS!
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Get set
Save
Rebound / Cover Puck
Recover
• Go over practice with your G coach so he/she can
find time to work the keepers.
• Explain how I design my practice as head coach.
6. DRILLS
• Different kinds of drills:
• Movement without pucks
• Movement with pucks
• Puck stopping
• Conditioning
• Simple ones: shuffles, t-pushes, butterflies,
sliding butterflies.
• Can be as simple as shuffle across ice boards to
boards. Can create patterns, like a V, or a X, around
crease. 20 butterflies – GO GO GO!
• Can be elaborate: 5 pucks – each one has a shooter,
call our numbers. Start standing, from knees, from
belly…
6. DRILLS (CONTINUED)
• Progression:
• Early in season:
• Skating / Balance / Edgework
• Puckhandling
• Basic movement
• Move into:
• Saves / Rebound Control (work on shifting into
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pucks)
Angles / Depth Management
Read and React
Later:
Game management
Reading situations
Unorthodox / Desperation saves
Reinforce fundamentals
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• We have it broken down from month to month
6. DRILLS (CONTINUED)
• Examples:
• Shuffles
• T-pushes
• Box
• Inverted V
•X
•Z
• Sliding butterflies – 2 Butterfly Drill
• Shifting into pucks
• Simply having coach shoot pucks – track them
6. DRILLS (CONTINUED)
• Example: Inverted V
6. DRILLS (CONTINUED)
• Example: 2 Butterfly Drill
6. DRILLS (CONTINUED)
• Very important example: Shifting into pucks
7. SUPPORT
• We have created a top notch program that now has 2
goalies playing D1, another with a scholarship and
another fielding offers. The program works. We have
created a culture, we create exceptional fundamentals,
and we need the coaches to voice it.
• Parents go to coaches and maybe don’t see enough
“flash” and “pizzazz”, you need to let them know we
have a program, we have an order of progression, and
the kids will improve in many different ways, not just
style or technique.
• We are battling competition and the problem is the
habits. We get the kids back and they have bad habits
that are hard to break. They won’t move on to national
levels if they don’t fix them.
• We want to meet with you and/or someone who will
work with G’s early in season to join you on ice and
create routines. Please work with us to set this up.
8. SUMMARY
• Designate someone to be in charge of the goalies,
get the contact info to us – we will come get them
set up for the season.
• Create Good Habits! Hold the goalies accountable.
• Give the G’s time so that on each save in practice
they must:
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Get set
Make the save
Play the rebound
Recover
• Remember – you will go as far as your goaltending
takes you! Put the time in when you design your
drills.
9. CONTACT INFO
RYHA Goaltending Program
Goalie Coaches
• Richard Shulmistra
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Cell: 919-656-5511
Email: richard@shulmistra.com
• Steve Stephenson
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Cell: 919-602-4475
Email: wstephenson68@gmail.com
• Leigh Crawford
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Cell: 919-279-0648
Email: coachleigh@ymail.com
• RYHA Website – has contact info. Looking to build
section as a resource.
10. QUESTIONS?