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Creating the Early Goal-scorer
Building on something I strongly suggested last month -- about helping a player to be a success at his or her own level, I'm going to share a video I produced a few years ago, this aimed at "Creating the Early Goal-scorer." For, if you want to give a youngster confidence, and help him or her gain a real love for the game, there's no surer way than to help him or her put the puck in the net on a regular basis.
This video also introduces the concept of giving young players just a few, DO-ABLE challenges at a time.
Finally, I placed this topic in the Intermediate category for good reason. By all means, a player is going to need a number of basic skills in place in order to execute the moves I'm going to show. So, I'll suggest that a player should fall somewhere between the fairly skilled 8-year olds and young teens seen in the following video.
http://coachchic2.s3.amazonaws.com/EarlyGoalScorer.mp4