Junior Hockey DEMANDS results from your kid....

A lot of players entering Junior are unclear about what exact RESULTS are expected of them

And the typical try your best or work hard and skate hard are not good enough answers

Some players play simple roles where the main goal is to and get pucks out the D Zone and into the O Zone only and through easy plays like dumps and chips

Other players have bigger expectations where they NEED to control possession more. Coaches expect these types of players to attack the middle ice, drive the net with pucks and get shots off the rush

Other players are expected to go one step beyond that. Those are the elite FWD’s or defenceman who are expected to CONTROL the game whenever they are on the ice. They are allowed more creativity and room for risk because they can handle it.

This is all dependent on a coaches preferred system and style of coaching the team

This also applies for other results like hits or special teams

Some players NEED to be more physical whilst some just need to be able to TAKE more physicality in situations