Hockey IQ
How do I read the play and decide?
Support, space, scanning and risk. Knowing your position and the systems without this means executing the wrong thing at the right time.
The 5 documents in this section
Puck Support and SpacingMost of what a teammate is for happens without the puck. A carrier with two places to put it can beat pressure that would strip a better player with none, so nearly everything in this…Time and SpaceHockey has one currency, and it is time and space: the room you have when the puck reaches you, and the moment you have to use it.Scanning and AnticipationPlayers who look like they see the whole ice have almost always simply already looked, at a moment when the puck was somewhere else and nobody was watching them.Risk Management and Decision-MakingEvery time you touch the puck you place a bet, and what you stand to lose depends more on where you are standing than on what you try.Playing Without the PuckYou spend almost all of your ice time without the puck, and what you do in that time decides what the few seconds with it are worth.