12principles

12 offensive and defensive principles to learn and remember through the season. If you can remember these through you hockey career you'll do OK.

Defending/Defensive Responsibilities

1. Never pass the puck toward or across the front of your own net.

2. Always use the boards when clearing the puck out of the defensive zone.

3. One defenceman should be in front of our net (stick on the ice) when the puck is deep in the defensive zone.

4. Angle opponents into the corner below the goal line. If you are unsure what angling means please have a look in the terms section of the site

5. Wingers position in the defensive zone should be inside the opposing defenceman with stick on the ice.

6. Always skate hard to backcheck and help out in the defensive zone.

7. Angle opponents to the boards in all 1 on 1 forechecking.

Attacking/Offensive Responsibilities

1. Get the puck deep into the attacking/defensive zone.

2 Defenceman no deeper than the top of the circles in the offensive zone.

3. If no pass or shot from the point in the offensive zone, dump the puck deep into the strong side corner.

4. The 2nd player into the offensive zone goes to the net. (1st player is carrying or goes to the puck)

5. The 3rd player into the offensive zone goes up high. (Top of the slot).