How to Play Better Defense in Hockey
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The ONE MECHANIC you need to learn how to play defense in hockey!
How to play better defense in hockey is the hockey training video that you need to play better defense. Whether you've been looking for ways to skate backwards to angle out forwards or for hockey drills that you can use to shut down elite offensive threats, this video is the answer to the question "how to defend in hockey?".
In this video, we look at the patterns used by Erik Karlsson, Cale Makar, Moritz Seider, and countless other pro defensemen to play top level defense. If you've struggled with defense positioning when your forwards turn the puck over, or if you've been looking for the one mechanic to immediately improve your defensive game, you'll want to watch this one! This is the ultimate hockey defense basics tutorial so that you never get caught out of place when you're on the ice. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for our advanced defense video that will break down other hockey skills and drills that you can use to level up your defensive play and improve your game that much more.
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Thanks for watching! How much will this fundamental defense mechanic help you next time you have to play 1-on-1 in your game?
A lot
What do you do if the player goes through the center? Do i just put pressure?
Where do you live if we want private lesson?
You forgot do not look at the puck look him in the eyes and follow backwards you can also then read his next move sometimes then make a big hit
No joke, as an adult learning to play hockey, this is the single most helpful video I've ever found on RUclips. Please, keep making this videos that simply these concepts!
That's awesome, glad you liked it.
Playing hockey for my first year at 22 years old, this 2 minute video made more sense than any I’ve seen in the last hour. Thanks a lot!
Glad it helped, best of luck and enjoy 👍
This was the video i was waiting for please do more defense! Love the channel! ❤
Awesome, glad you liked it, more to come.
Yes! More defense please. This is so simple yet so effective. Sometimes(most times) we are only rolling 3 Dmen in my beer league games. Definitely will help with conserving energy
Thank you for your insight and upload of your video!! I just started up again playing hockey, offensive defensiveman, this video helped a lot. 🙌
Glad to hear that 👍
When you are playing with better and especially faster forwards you are going to want to do backwards crossovers much more consistenly in order for you to keep up with them and so that they dont start acellerate and skate much faster that they did, catching you off guard and them blowing past you. And this is just my experience and opinion and i think what you show is really great for the youth/young defencemen who needs to learn the basics first and all that. And this just shows that, its great. But have in mind when the defencemen is really fasta nd agile/skating power and acelleration you are going to want to do more consistenly crossovers in order for you to keep up and to trick them
Yes you need to match the speed of the forward early. If you are having to cross when he's close you're in a world of trouble haha.
Thanks for the video. This already helped out my defense a lot. I appreciate the clear, foundational basics
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
excellent stuff. my ten year old son wants to be a defensman in the NHL. Starts with a dream.
This is his first season ever on ice skates so he is the rookie but already picked up has his first game assist. He loves it. skates on his inlines every day there is no snow if he cant get on the ice, and garage hockey when there is snow on the road. proud Dad- Hockey is the very best sport for young men, hands down.
we just played the Dee, in houghton, the birthplace of professional hockey. we usually play in calumet Mi
Awesome! Great story for everyone to read, thanks for sharing, best of luck and feel free to reach out to support@train2point0.com anytime.
Yep, that’s a concise explanation of basic defense. Very well done.
Thanks 👍
Thanks for breaking it down into easy to follow steps. I’m a pick up player, but this video has me thinking that I need to use my natural inclination to play on the Left side D. Thanks
No problem, glad you enjoyed it.
Started doing this pattern over and over in skate and shoots - cross, corkscrew, pivot - over and over in drills and learning some blue line control...if you can do this with any speed in beer league, you're basically Dahlin. It's made hockey much more enjoyable to know we can actually play defense instead of stick waving and hoping our goalie saves.
haha great to hear you adopted the pattern and completely agree.
My son has been playing defence for a few years now (coaches moved him there after being centre for years). We were worried at first how he’d react (you know how kids are) but he loves the game even more now than ever. We know they moved him there initially because of his skating and size which is fine but of course now that he’s years in, most kids have caught up in skating ability. They’re all pretty even. My son still has size in his corner and is always being coached to “take the body”. He does often but also often ends up in the box when he “takes the body”. Usually an interference call as opposed to giant hit or anything. He plays aggressively but he just a naturally “nice” kid so it’s not in him to be mean…….unless someone touches the goalie. He legit doesn’t like that. Anyway, would you be able to show some examples of good ways of “taking the body” without drawing a penalty? And/or even what the right thing to do when you’re alone defending in front of the net and there is a scramble happening? Who do you take?
These are all things that can be coached but the coaches have heaps of work with the team as a whole so it’s tough for them to focus on these things in practice.
Appreciate you doing some defensive talks as I often feel that in hockey, great defensive plays go unnoticed and are overshadowed by a simple goal.
As a dad who loves the game but never played, I always appreciate anyone who takes the time to teach the craft. My son LOVES this game as most Canadian boys his age and is always working on it. Maybe a visual tutorial on RUclips might help him understand the situation a little better.
Cheers.
That's a great idea, that subtle interference is an art and something that players need to toy the line with. Completely agree with the coach has a lot to manage with wins/ losses and managing 23 players. We have a full defense course we're launching on our website soon. www.train2point0.com . Keep an eye out for it and as for free content, I will see what I can do with regards to our schedule for releasing this material. Thanks for the comment!
@@Train2point0 awesome! Thanks a ton. Will be following closely. Thanks again for all the work. Enjoy your holidays! 👍👍
if he's getting interference calls it means he's playing the body when the puck is gone. So just...stop doing that? Also, going for big hits on players who just got rid of the puck is usually bad for your team since you have to go way out of position to make that hit on a (now) inconsequential player. He needs to stay in position and stay in the play. Much better to interrupt the player and play, while keeping yourself free to cover back on defense.
If you're trying to move players out from in front of the net without crosschecking the shit out of someone, have him try moving them with his ass/hips instead (you just sort of back into them and take the space in front of their body, it's kinda like posting up in basketball) and also maybe focus more on stick lifting/checking.
@@jessedahl5746 thanks for the reply but I think you misread my post. My kid rarely hits kids in a big way and ends up in the box for that. That’s not his style of play and he’s actually the most responsible (position wise) on the team so that part of his game is good. As for taking the body, I try to explain to him that he stay with the offensive player too long after the puck is gone which he’s having trouble distinguishing and visualizing which is why I ask for a visual example. Simply telling him isn’t the answer. In saying that, he’s been slowly improving since I first posted this. Still needs some work though.
As for in front of the net, he doesn’t do the cross check thing (at least not to the point of refs sending him off) and is pretty good at keeping guys off balance and tying up sticks but what does a D man do when there is more than one guy to cover? Is it just choose one and hope for the best as sometimes choosing the guy closest to the goalie leaves a guy wide open out front for a tap in. I mean, it’s hockey and things happen fast but he sure takes it personally if he’s on the ice and one goes in. I know there are other teammates around too but no matter what, whether he makes the mistake or a teammate does, he blames himself.
@@surlycrosscheck1 ok. a good visual example might be to try to find some big center ice hits by D that ended up in goals against. That's usually not a good spot to go for a big hit if the other team has support. Dunno how hard that will be to find on youtube. Another one would be D pinching down on forwards to go for the big hit when they don't have any forwards sagging to support them.
As far as in front of net, if you have 2 players to cover...You pretty much gotta hope you're in poke check distance to both if a pass comes their way. It's very situational obviously but one thing you could do is a little deception. Cover one player in a very obvious way (but keep your feet and stick free), giving the passer the perception that the other player is wide open. But the D the whole time is intending to jump out to the open player as soon as the pass comes.
Another option is to play between the 2 open players (assuming they're close enough to do so) and hope the passer isn't that good at making crisp passes, and that you'll have the ability to get a stick on the pass somehow.
Awesome video. I also watched the part 2 Gap Control video and found it very helpful. Thank you.
Anytime 👍
My team captain talked to me last night about possibly dropping me back to defense because of my speed. This video is extremely helpful with learning positioning
Glad to hear it, best of luck back there.
Thank you for teaching me and at 1:40 my coach tells me to put my stick behind me to make them go more wide and not cut back. But when they try to drive in you put your stick on stick body on body etc. but it might just be that I’m ten and it’s different for my age
That seems like a very reasonable thing to do to minimize the cut to the center. You'll want to be able to get you stick back in front of you quickly once they are going wide so you can poke check.
This is going to help greatly for my game tonight
Love to hear it, good luck.
This is great! I sent this to my 14 year old defender.
Is there a mental frame of reference for when to transition and start skating forward? Blue line or maybe when the forward is at the same level as the defender.
When he can no longer cut in and is committed to going wide. Protecting the middle and steering him where you want is most important.
Very helpful, thanks!
You're welcome!👍
This helped me so much i playd for higher grade
Love to hear it.
@@Train2point0 me Too(☞ ͡ ͡° ͜ ʖ ͡ ͡°)☞
Awesome my friend. :)
Thank you 👍
That Makar shutdown to McD was so satisfying at the time. Still is.
haha world class.
what is the best video to learn a backward crossover?
Potentially something new coming down the line otherwise we have a couple good ones for defending.
Spoken like a forward. It’s not exactly this simple and Defenseman might want to have a second or third thought before strictly following this advice as that single-open-step transition is mostly applicable to D’men who are >6’2” when the play is below the top of the face off circle. In other conditions that footwork pattern is too slow and with sufficient room, the forward will beat him wide every time. Higher in the zone, and/or when the d’man is a bit smaller than a solidly above average adult, that transition is usually set up with a cross under step which effectively puts one additional push in the middle of the move. The channel’s own example at 0:56 illustrates this very point. A smaller player might still use the pattern but probably only at about hashmarks or below.
Thanks for the comment, we will consider this for future content.
I've played at this arena
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Does this apply to offense
Not this pattern but we have plenty of offensive patterns to learn as well.
Stay btwn skater and the goalie, block the pass, squeeze them towards the boards. Turnover.
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Watching hockey videos on yt just makes me jealous I can't get a rink to myself.
Defense means dont let nobody get past you
someone show this video to the oilers
haha, hilarious.
Lol
Amn that was col blooe for the Emonton Oilers
i would start with theory? You don't defend the goal. That's the keepers job. You defend the house aka slot, in order to make the keepers job easier. Body on body, stick on stick. My two cents ( worth every penny!)
Haha absolutely, thanks for the cents!
Skating. Very important. Is you're a great skater then this is nonsense. Defense is ask about pressure. Hold down their srick
Correct, big "if" though.
My son has been playing defence for a few years now (coaches moved him there after being centre for years). We were worried at first how he’d react (you know how kids are) but he loves the game even more now than ever. We know they moved him there initially because of his skating and size which is fine but of course now that he’s years in, most kids have caught up in skating ability. They’re all pretty even. My son still has size in his corner and is always being coached to “take the body”. He does often but also often ends up in the box when he “takes the body”. Usually an interference call as opposed to giant hit or anything. He plays aggressively but he just a naturally “nice” kid so it’s not in him to be mean…….unless someone touches the goalie. He legit doesn’t like that. Anyway, would you be able to show some examples of good ways of “taking the body” without drawing a penalty? And/or even what the right thing to do when you’re alone defending in front of the net and there is a scramble happening? Who do you take?
These are all things that can be coached but the coaches have heaps of work with the team as a whole so it’s tough for them to focus on these things in practice.
Appreciate you doing some defensive talks as I often feel that in hockey, great defensive plays go unnoticed and are overshadowed by a simple goal.
As a dad who loves the game but never played, I always appreciate anyone who takes the time to teach the craft. My son LOVES this game as most Canadian boys his age and is always working on it. Maybe a visual tutorial on RUclips might help him understand the situation a little better.
Cheers.
No question and potentially a good idea for RUclips at some point. If you guys want to consider signing up we can take a deeper look into things in the members area in the coming weeks, otherwise thanks for the feedback and well thought out comment 👍