Goalies, I need your help!

[blues_91 0]

Hey modsquad, it's been a while. I've recently laced up the skates again, but now an assistant coach for a girl's Bantam AAA team. The Head Coach wants me to focus on helping out the goalies, and I have no idea what I'm doing (I'm a forward ). Can any experienced goaltenders out there give me some tips? What are the key areas I should work on, what are some basic drills that I can use? I'm working with the goalies by myself, and I don't have any extra players to use in drills.

TIA

[interpathway 9]

im no goalie but this will be a great place to start, cant go wrong with NTDP (unless you're Canadian i suppose).

http://www.usahockey.com/usahgoalies/defau...2&ID=223758

[McDougalfaschnitzer 32]

Find a goalie coach :D

[hockeyplus 0]

H!

Maybe you can work some basic drill with your goalie.

I'm goalie coach for a AA Bantam Team, and before each pratice, they do that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=452Dd7RVFu8...feature=related

[Law Goalie 147]

The best thing you could do right now is to buy Steve McKichan's instructional DVD set, "No Rebounds." He supposedly has a new version coming out, but the old one is still an invaluable teaching aid. Just take his drills and use them. I've been coaching all the goalies of an entire minor hockey association, and those DVDs are still my best resource, short of my own generalised teaching experience. See Future Pro for more...

In the long term, I would *highly* recommend attending goalie camps in your area, or riding shotgun with a local goalie coach for the day. Go along with a critical eye, and don't take anything wholesale. Beware of anyone who says a particular style is the holy grail of goaltending, but don't dismiss anything until you've had some time to mull it over.

I can tell you that adding even a single other shooter increases the number of drills you can do tenfold. I can also tell you that the drills that are used at goalie camps are basically the same ones that are used are goal-scoring ('finisher') camps. The biggest side effect of my own work was that the kids I used as 'rebound punishers' (finishing off any live pucks in a drill) started potting garbage goals like mad in their league games.

[ktang 34]

I have a set of drills. PM me if you're interested.

[DangleDangleChamp 0]

These are drills from Bandits Goalie School in Michigan. Stan Matwijiw (Head Instructor) is Chris Osgood's goalie coach.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Twiv0807

[Aussie Joe 0]

This is a fantastic resource...

IIHF Lvl 2 - Technical Goaltending

Tretiak, Hasek, Standup etc all covered.

[blues_91 0]

Thanks for your responses. I've actually worked at a goalie school (a couple years ago), but most if not all of the drills required mroe than 1 shooter, so that is why I'm at a bit of a lost. I'll definately check out the links when I get home, and I'll check out the DVDs as well.

[eddyo57 0]

i have worked with steve mckikhan for some years now and i am myself a goalie coach. i would say that more than anything, work on the fundamental skating elements like crease drills. another big thing now a days is puck handling, which the earlier you start the better. for specific drills, look at GOALIE"S WORLD whic you can buy in some hockey stores but they have a website too.... each article features a drill which is shown out in complete detail and most of them are easy to do and do not require too many people