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Drills and Practice
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What should you do if your team is playing poorly?
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Very often when a team is playing poorly, they are not executing the basic skills of hockey - skating, passing, and shooting. If a team is not meeting expectations, try to refocus on the basics and work from there. Often, players make the game more complicated than it really is. As Gretz always says, "Hockey is merely a game of two-on-ones."
