The 'New Hockey Coach' Coaching Kit

Learn from the best! World-renowned goaltending coach Joe Bertagna has designed Goaltending Basics to highlight the essential ingredients toward becoming a successful goaltender! Segment 1: Basic stance: basic stance, butterfly stance, and smothering stance. Segment 2: Movement: forward/backward, shuffle, and T-glide movements. Segment 3: Recovery ability: working up and down, on the stomach, and on the side recovery skills. Segment 4: Save techniques with detailed guidelines for positioning, defending, and making the appropriate choice of equipment for a shot on goal. Segment 5: Game situations: change of directions, poke checks, tying up the puck, cover-ups, and defending the wraparound, puck handling for behind-the-net strategies, techniques for leaving the puck in a desirable position, screen situations, and breakaways. Segment 6: Mental aspects: details the role of the coach in keeping the goaltender in the proper state of mind and offers mental techniques and strategies to maintain an edge!

57 minutes. 2002.

In the first part of this three part hockey DVD, Stationary Shots, Pat Duggan teaches, coaches, and demonstrates eight different shots from a stationary position on the ice including: wrist, snap, pull-in snap, slap, pass shot, flip shot, backhand and backhand chip. Coach Duggan breaks down each shot into proper body position, hand position on the stick, the shot and follow-through along with strategies on targeting and shot situations. In Part 2, Moving Shots, Duggan repeats his strategic and technical instruction while moving on the ice. The moving shots are: wrist, snap, pull-in snap, slap shot, one time, and backhand. Duggan's personal demonstrations are followed by demonstrations from varied age demonstrators. In Part 3, Passes, Duggan continues his technical and strategic instruction including pass receive strategies and presents the following passes; forehand, saucer, backhand, drop and bump pass off the board. In Part 4, Drills, Duggan runs his demonstrators through four hockey drills that incorporate shooting and passing.

30 minutes. 2005.

In this comprehensive drill-packed hockey DVD, Coach Pat Duggan shares more than 70 hockey drills to improve puck skills!

Duggan includes detailed teaching on both technical and strategic components of puck handling followed by skill and drill demonstration with various age group players.

Duggan also shares game scenarios where sound puck skills will prove advantageous to the player.

This four part DVD includes:

• Part 1: Puck Control. Duggan shares 26 drills that will help teach and challenge players at any level learn to control the puck in both stationary and skating situations.
• Part 2: Stickhandling. Duggan shares five drills that enable players to stickhandle in controlled and chaotic situations.
• Part 3: Moves & Fakes. Duggan details nine different moves/variations to advance the puck.
• Part 4: Off-Ice Drills. Duggan shares 23 different drills and skills for puck control and stickhandling that a player can do virtually anywhere - indoors or outdoors!

68 minutes. 2005.

with Blaise MacDonald,
Colby College Head Coach;
2018 American Hockey Coaches Association Division III National Coach of the Year;
2018 NCAA DIII Frozen Four;
2018 New England Small College Athletic Conference champions;
former head coach at Umass-Lowell and Niagara University;
over 300 career wins

Coach MacDonald has over 30 years of coaching experience at the DI and DIII levels. He was the first head coach in program history at Niagara. Within four years of founding the program at Niagara, MacDonald was named ECAC West Co-Coach of the Year and led the Purple Eagles to the NCAA quarterfinal round. He was named College Hockey America's Coach of the Year, and was voted runner-up for the Spencer Penrose Award as National Coach of the Year. He has won National Titles as an assistant coach (Boston University) and a player (twice at Rochester Institute of Technology). An All-American Defenseman at RIT, Coach McDonald has recruited and coached over 30 NHL players.

Face-offs are an area of the game that requires dedicated time in every practice.

Blaise MacDonald feels that a team that can win 55 % of the 50-70 face offs that occur in a typical game definitely has the upper hand in the outcome of the game.

Coach MacDonald's five-part presentation features:

• Technical Skills for the Face off - In this segment, he details 12 specific skills to take into consideration for improving your team's face offs. MacDonald also shares specific in-game coaching tips to put your team in better control of a face-off situation.
• Defensive Zone Strategies - MacDonald shares five specific face-off plays that are designed to get the puck out of the defensive zone as quickly as possible.
• Neutral Zone Strategies - See six proven face-off plays diagrammed and demonstrated.
• Offensive Zone Strategies - MacDonald presents seven successful face offs that cover a variety of game situations.
• Drills and Skills - MacDonald takes his team through a rapid fire series of the face-offs presented to give you a firsthand look at how he trains face-offs with his team on a daily basis.

In all, you get a total of 18 specific face-off plays, each diagrammed and demonstrated, as well as game and practice strategies that are sure to help your team gain an upper hand in winning the face-off battle over your opponents!

55 minutes. 2010.