DRAFT: Sort Out Player Skills Evaluation Plan

Here are the player skills evaluation drills. Five stations, five drills, five points each, maximum score of twenty five.

Backward Skating and Pivots

Forward skate with puck. Pivot facing end to backward at circle line. Backward skate to through circle. Pivot to forwards again facing end. At board, go in reverse on the way back: backwards, forwards, backwards.

Score five - Demonstrates drill with confidence.
loose a point - difficulty with pivot, looses significant speed, clearly cannot pivot both ways, does not follow instruction to face one end when pivoting.
loose a point - difficulty backwards skating, skates upright, bends back not knees, knees not bent, does not use c-cuts.
loose a point - cannot pivot, stops or steps to turn to go backwards.
loose a point - cannot skate backwards, shuffles or steps.

Key points for on ice help:
Players need to be reminded that they need to always pivot facing the same end, facing the clock.

Shooting

Player skates with puck to top of circle, turns towards a pair of cones, finish with a shot on net. The objective is to demonstrate a proper wrist shot with power and accuracy as many times as possible.

Score five - player demonstrates repeated wrist shots with accuracy near the corners of the net.
loose one point - cannot raise the puck from the ice.
loose one point - no accuracy, misses net, hits the middle of the net.
loose one point - does not prepare shot or demonstrate weight transfer to gain power, shoulders stay square to the net, pushes puck.
loose one point - does not demonstrate full motion in the wrist shot, does not draw stick back, does not follow through.

Key points for on ice help:
Make sure the players are taking proper wrist shots and at the cones well outside the net. No slap shots. Challenge players to hit different parts of the net.

Crossovers and Tight Turns

Forward skate around circle with puck, both directions.

Score five - Demonstrates drill with confidence.
loose two points - do not see the player performing crossovers through the turns, both directions.
loose a point - player does not maintain constant speed around circle. Player does not accelerate through turns, slows down.
loose a point - player demonstrates poor puck control when going around the circles, cannot control puck on backhand, puck does not stay in circle.

Key points for on ice help:
Critical that players are started in opposite directions to avoid direction bias.

Stopping

Forward skate to blue line with puck, stop facing stands, skate forward to broomball line/cone, stop facing stands, Skate back to blue line, stop facing stands, skate back to red line.

Score five - Demonstrates drill with confidence.
loose one point - player does not stop with both feet, does a snowplow stop with one foot.
loose two points - player does not demonstrates stops in both directions facing stands.
loose one point - player does not crossover start after stopping, just turns and skates, does not demonstrate quick change in direction.

Key points for on ice help:
Critical to remind players need to stop facing stands to demonstrate they can stop on both sides.

Passing

Coach or player stationary on red line passing to players. Player being evaluated skates forward, received pass and send pass in motion. After passing, player does backward skate and receives a second pass, returns pass. This forward pass + backward pass is common called the yo-yo passing drill.

Score five - Demonstrates drill with confidence.
loose one point - player does not move both hands in the direction of his target when passing, does not point to direction of pass and no follow through.
loose one point - player does not receive pass by tilting the top edge of his stick towards the puck, does not cup the puck and draw back.
loose one point - player slaps at the puck as it he passes, a noisy pass. A pass should be done without making any sound.
loose one point - player cannot pass and receive going forward.
loose one point - player cannot pass and receive going backward.

Key points for on ice help:
Critical to remind players need to stop facing stands to demonstrate they can stop on both sides.