Goalie Zone

Goalie/Coaches clinic times and dates:

December 6:
8:00 pm coaches meeting (in locker room)
8:15-9:15 pm on ice clinic

January 10:
8:00 pm coaches meeting (in locker room)
8:15-9:15 pm on ice clinic

February 7:
8:00 pm coaches meeting ( in locker room)
8:15-9:15 pm on ice clinc


 

 

Elk River Youth Hockey MEGA Goaltending Training

Goals for MEGA’s involvement with ERYHA Goaltenders:

  • To give young people starting in the sport of hockey more opportunities and instruction around the position goaltending
  • To establish a line of regular communication between goaltenders, their families and coaches with qualified goalie consultants/instructors at MEGA
  • To establish a continuing education process for ERYHA coaches to acquire the coaching skills needed to have a vested interest in the development of its own goaltenders.

This workshop is led by MEGA founder Justin Johnson. Justin has been a featured speaker for numerous USA Hockey, Minnesota Hockey and corporate events over the past seven years. He continually delivers relevant information in a way that engages audiences in the topic of the evening.                                      

MEGA is proud to provide the following services to meet the above objectives:

Establish a consistent group of coaches that will be dedicated to their team’s goaltender development. This group would then participate in a series of programs aimed to educate and equip them with the skills to coach their goaltenders. Sessions would be viewed as mandatory to attend and would leave each session optional for anyone else interested in attending.

The identified group of coaches would participate in the following programs:

Coaches/Goalie workshops - October 18, 7:00pm

            These workshops will begin with a kick-off meeting, October 18, 7:00 pm at the arena. There, the outline of the program and the basics of coaching goaltenders are introduced. This meeting is then followed by an hour of ice where coaches’ work with goaltenders from the association on the ice to apply the concepts introduced. After the kick-off meeting four additional sessions, Nov 8th, Dec 6, Jan 10, and Feb 7 are scheduled to ensure consistent follow up and additional support. The four workshops will aim to deliver relevant information to the coaches working with the ERYHA goaltenders on a regular basis. A portion of the time will be devoted to a progression of skills and the drills they can use with their goalies. Additional time will be devoted to current issues the coaches are facing when working with their goalies. Coaches will also be given support through a number of technologies to help impact their goaltenders in a positive way this season. All coaches will be required to have a representative from their team attend, the kick off meeting, and 3 of the remaining 4 workshops.

Intro to Goaltending Experience - October 29, 3:50 - 4:50

One of the best ways to increase and retain the number of goalies in your association is to give kids the chance to learn and succeed at the position in a safe and fun environment. The Intro to Goaltending Experience will feature an hour of on ice instruction. Intro to Goaltending Experience will include: proper equipment fitting and dress demonstration, basic movements, games to gain familiarity in equipment, parent education, and "A Goalie’s Mind" workshop. This experience is perfect for mite and squirt aged goaltenders and/or anyone interested in converting to the position.

Goalie Parent Meeting - October 29, 3:00

The Goalie parent meeting will be the first time for parents to meet the MEGA Goaltending staff and is aimed to support parents of potential and current goaltenders in ERYHA on the benefits of their child becoming a goaltender. Topics will include how parents can support their goaltender and their development, and how to manage the ups and downs of the position. This meeting will take place immediately before the Intro to Goalie workshop, and is open to all goalie parents in Elk River.

Additional Services

In addition to the services MEGA will be providing Elk River coaches and goalies, they are offering private sessions, in-practice training, and clinic opportunities at a discounted rate.  Please contact MEGA directly, for scheduling and pricing at  info@megagoaltending.com or by navigating to www.megagoaltending.com

 

 


Updated 09/01/2011

 

ELK RIVER GOALIES 2011 - 2012 Update 9/1/2011   Applebee's Pancake Fundraiser SATURDAY OCT. 22 2011 8:00 AM TO 10:00 AM
Tickets sell for $5 of which $3 goes to the Goalie Club.  Ticket purchase pancakes and beverage of your choice; milk coffee or juice Each Goalie will be required to sell 8 tickets.  Contact Michael Wiest by 9/9/2011 to obtain your tickets. Volunteers are needed to staff this event please contact Michael Wiest at roughrider91@live.com Volunteers work for only 75 minutes. 

 

Goaltenders

Coaches Practi


ce Guidelines and Mental Game Solutions

Development of Goal Tenders during practice is critical feature to their Success.  How are they used, how are goalie drills incorporated into everyday practice sesssions?  Attend a typical practice session and  you will find that goal tenders are left to their own devices for long stretches followed by drills that don'tsimulate game situations.   What to do?  Confused?

USAHockey has put together excellent practice guidelines that can provide big dividends for the team, goal tender and coach.  The URL listed below provides effective practice scenarios that can be employed by any team at any level.

Practice Guidlines

http://www.usahockeymagazine.com/article/2008-08/guidelines-goalies-practice

  4 Ways Caoches Influcence a Goaltenders "Mental" Game

http://minnesotahockeyhep.com/hep-articles/top-4-ways-coaches-harm-goaltenders%E2%80%99-mental-game/

 


Goal Tender - Development Venues

We have received numerous requests to suggest possible Goal Tender development training programs within the Twin Cities area.  The list below is not a complete listing of all available programs within the Twin Cities but just a reference point to those programs used by prior goal tenders within the Assocation.  The Best in Class are listed below -- 

Goalcrease Inc.                      http://www.goalcrease.com/about/index.cfm

Program based in Edina and Blaine, MN -- GOALCREASE Inc. strives to innovate, develop, and bring to the hockey world new and better ways to train and prepare hockey goalies.  In 1993, Robb Stauber and Paul Ostby began running goalie camps. By harnessing Robb's and Paul's unbridled passion for goalie training, the camps became the Stauber/Ostby Goalie Academy and the Midwest’s premier training resource for goalies. Serving as both bedrock and springboard, the Stauber/Ostby Goalie Academy has transmuted into GOALCREASE Inc

ProHybrid Inc.                           http://www.prohybridtraining.com/pht/

Program based in Minneapolis, MN -- ProHyBrid mission is to develop consistent goalies that are intelligent athletes with a passion and pride for the position.  Founded by Zach Sikich in 2005 ProHybrid vision is to give goalies the correct mechanics, nuture each goalies abiity to read and react to the game, and consistently improve in the role without hitting a plateau in their development.  The ProHyBrid Trainiing system generates a blueprint for goal tender's succcess by being able to objectively work on specific fundamentals thereby developing consistent play.  Consistentency is a corner of success.  ProHyBrid provides todayt's goal tenders with the most current, efficient, and effective system to stoplping the puck through atheltic movement, precise positioning and efficient save execution. 

Goalie Club                http://www.thegoalieclub.com/

Program based in Fairbault, MN -- Goalie Club was founded in 2002 by Des Christopher and Craig Lindsay, experienced goaltender coaches seeking a camp which continuously changed and adapted with the latest goaltending styles and techniques, The Goalie Club was created for the purpose of helping goaltenders of all ages learn the latest goaltending theories and then implement it into their game.  The Goalie Club is built on the principle that to be a successful goaltender, a goalie must understand the game. By teaching goaltenders the why as well as the how of each technique, goaltenders become more confident in their technical game as they progress in their strategic game.

 


ERYHA Coaches that need assistance in trying run efficient and meaninful goalie drills can tap into this web site. 

   USA Hockey’s goaltending development home page --  http://www.usahockey.com/usahgoalies/ 

It's a goal of USA Hockey to improve the goaltending position nationwide. This site is set up to help develop goaltenders and educate coaches on the USA style of goaltending  USA Hockey is proud to bring you a series of goaltending challenges aimed at improving goalie skills and education coaches about goalie drills and training


 

Ever wonder if  your goal tender is benefiting from team practices? 

Here's an excellent article on Guidelines for Goalies at Practice from USAHockey. One of the biggest problems in the development of goalies is how they are used at practice. Or, in some cases, not used.  A visit to a typical practice will find goalies left to their own devices for long stretches followed by unrealistic drills that don’t simulate game situations. Just "shooting on a goalie" doesn't provide sufficient skill development.
           
Effectively incorporating goaltenders into your practice plans will pay big dividends come game time.  Take momemt to review the article at --

http://www.usahockeymagazine.com/article/2008-08/guidelines-goalies-practice

Updated 7/21/2010


The following article from Justin Johnson, USA Hockey’s Minnesota District Associate Goalie Coach-in-Chief, outlines some of the common pitfalls coaches have when working with goalies.

This past fall, USA Hockey’s Minnesota District Goalie Coach-in-Chief Steve Carroll and I traveled across the state, conducting goalie coaching clinics for youth hockey associations. During the two-hour sessions, I consulted with coaches about ways they can increase the likelihood of their goaltenders having a positive experience in the game of hockey.

What I discovered is there are many coaches who are on the right track with their goalies and their development. There are also a few who are having trouble communicating with their goalies. Even more struggle with how they orchestrate practices and games in a way that encourages goaltender development.

In an effort to shed some light on how coaches can set their goalies up for success, I have included four common pitfalls to avoid. My aim is to inform coaches about the ways they harm their goaltenders’ mental development, often times without even knowing it!

4) Not sure what to say, so say nothing.
Issue: Historically head coaches and their staff have struggled with how to coach, challenge and develop the goaltenders on their team. Many coaches haven’t played the position, so they feel paralyzed when trying to address technical information and fundamentals. This lack of goalie know-how, typically leads to frustrating conversations or even an avoidance of conversations because it doesn’t land in the coaches’ comfort zone.

Advice: I encourage coaches to make an effort to positively impact every player on the team, including goaltenders. Rather than keep quiet, sit down with your goaltender(s) to learn about what they need to be successful. Many goaltenders, even as young as squirts know what should have been done differently on goals they give up. As a coach, ask them what you can do to make practices better to address the situations you are seeing in games. Goalies need to feel a part of the team and process – ignoring them because of your ignorance can shake their trust, confidence and ultimately negatively impact their experience.

3) Pulling the goalie without giving explanation.
Issue: Eventually a game will get out of hand or an off-night will come around where it is in either the team’s or the goaltender’s best interest to pull them from the game. I believe that the pulling of a goalie is a necessary part of the game and one that if done correctly builds character and a winning spirit in an individual. If done incorrectly you may have a disruptive issue that lasts all season, and negatively impacts the mindset of your goaltenders for quite some time. I have witnessed and yes been a participant to many ugly pullings, where coaches yell at the goalie on the way to the bench or display incredibly poor body language that sends the wrong message to all watching.

Advice: When you decide to pull your goaltender doing so correctly comes down to two items. Conduct yourself in a calm and professional manner, including body language, by continuing to coach your team in a positive way. Secondly, you must not let that goaltender leave from the arena with out knowing why you pulled them and or how you intend to help them have a better outing next time. As a side note I feel it is acceptable to tell the goalie on the bench why you pulled them if it was done so to help change team momentum. If it was simply a rough night for the goalie, it is better to discuss in private after the game.

2) Shouting instructions from the bench.
Issue: Rarely have I seen great coaching advice that makes an immediate impact on a goalies performance by being yelled from the bench for all to see and hear. Other than encouragement or to notify the goalie to come to the bench, coaches should never yell to a goaltender. The repercussions of yelling include embarrassment, confusion, frustration, and a fear of making mistakes all of which deter a quality mindset and performances. In other words whatever gem of advice you may have and result you get from it will be eroded by a mindset that requires the goaltender to play for you rather than themselves and their instinct.

Advice: If a persistent issue is occurring there are a number of ways to communicate more effectively. You can wait until there is an intermission, relay the message to a mature player you feel will communicate to your goalie with the correct tone and message intended, or call a time-out.

1) Waiting right before the game to designate the starter.
Issue: Perhaps the most common mistake coaches make without knowing it is waiting to decide or inform which goalie will play. Coaches fail to understand that goaltending is a position that requires a significant amount of preparation. If a goalie does not know, that preparation is undermined, resulting in a less than prepared, less confident goaltender. Coaches have stated they use this tactic to judge who looks best in warm-ups or to make sure both goalies are ready. Both of these tactics are mentally counterproductive and will create negative effects not only for your goaltenders but also the rest of the team.

Advice: I suggest coaches give notice to BOTH goaltenders as to who will be playing a night in advance if possible or the morning of the game at the latest. This should be plenty of time for your goaltenders to prepare, giving your team the best chance of a quality performance. This is a simple request and one that will be greatly appreciated by your goaltenders.

Remember if you are good to your goalies they will likely be good to you and your team!


 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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