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Tips for your best tryout
Tips for your best Tryout
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BE ON TIME – ALWAYS
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Show you are motivated to make the team through hard work (give you best effort every game & practice)
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Battle to stop every puck & never give up on a shot, “ANYTIME”
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Don't be intimidated by others. Make sure you get your share of shots. You need to warm up as much as the next guy/girl. But don’t be a “net hog”
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Head up, shoulders square. Project a confident image...even if you aren’t
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Watch the body language...throwing your hands up on a goal, snapping your stick against the post, shrugging your shoulders or glaring at your defensemen DOES NOT earn you "brownie" points with the coaches
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DO NOT shoot pucks at the boards or go into some elaborate skating drill while waiting for your turn to receive shots. Simply grab a knee and wait or do a little stretching & WATCH THE SHOOTERS & the other goaltenders in net
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RELAX
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Listen more than you talk, especially in the dressing room
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On the ice, be a loud communicator of traffic and situations for your D and supporter of your team mates
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On the bench be “a team player”
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Be intense but under control
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DO NOT attempt to change your game from how you did things all season just because you're in a try-out
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The number of goals you give up is not as important as WHY THE PUCK WENT IN
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Even in warmup be enthusiastic & upbeat...a tryout is no place for negative talk (either self-talk or otherwise)
HAVE FUN!
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