At the Intersection of Puck Management

A simple guide to better possession play

As a continuation to yesterday’s newsletter post, here is a simple way to teach puck management.

Essentially, a player’s ability to manage the puck is akin to a driver’s ability to read a set of traffic lights.

Red Light: Contact Puck

A team’s initial puck touch in a possession sequence tends to be a contact puck:

• A 50/50 puck in traffic

• A back-wall retrieva…