Plymouth Youth Hockey

Goalie Home Page

Updated 26 January 2008

Goalie Coaches will be at most Skills sessions on Monday and Wednesday nights...try to make it... We have been working with all the teams goalies. We have designed specific drills to help our goalies at skills.

Mites - We will be visiting your teams to work with your goalies during the Season!

Mentoring - Our Mentoring program is being offered again this year. If you haven't asked for a Mentor or you would like to be a mentor please email me...Click Here. Mentors - We need you at the Monday and Wednesday night skills please try and make it.

Welcome to the 2007-2008 Plymouth Youth Hockey Goalie Web Page! We will use this page throughout the year to communicate our plans for the year. We will have upwards of 5 goalie clinics this year and our Goalie Training Team (GTT) will travel to coaches practices to help them further develop our goalies. This page is for goalies, if you have any thoughts please let us know.

First we are asking our goalies to fill out an Individual Development (IDP) plan Click here to view. Please fill out and email it back to gemcclay@comcast.net. This also has a survey for all of our goalie parents as well. If you would rather just fill out and give to your coach that is fine as well. They are aware of what the GTT is doing.

This is what we will try to do for the 2007/08 season;

• Try to have at least 5 goalie clinics held for current goalies

• At least 3 instructional sessions for just goalies – Mites and Learn to play

• Classroom for both levels throughout the year

• Goalie training team to assist with practices at all levels

• Updated equipment for Learn to play, Mites and Squirts
• Survey current goalies on what they think they need
• Evaluations throughout the year – with tracking system
• Mentor program

 Goalie Clinics – We will try to hold 5 clinics held throughout the year. The target audience would be current PYH goalies – with mites as year progress’. We have an 8 month long season. We hope to have clinics in or near the following months; October, November, December, January and March. The first clinic will focus on basics and ID a base line for ability and direction for goalie coordinators. Second and Third will focus on actual needs and basic goalie info. The forth will fine tune skills and gauge development. The fifth session will sum up year and ready for Try outs.  

Classroom – We will do some classroom/off ice training. This will be done at the rink with the new A/V equipment.  At the on ice goalie clinics we will try to do some classroom instruction prior to taking the ice.

 Goalie Training Team (GTT) – Through out the year the team will attend teams practices and help out with the goalies. Sean Kelly, Ron High, Kevin Johnson and Gordie McClay will make up the team with others helping out from time to time.  The GTT will develop a schedule and ask the coaches to invite them as needed as well. 

Equipment – We have done a great job over the last two years of purchasing and accounting for our goalie equipment. We will continue to explore options for keeping our equipment updated, such as discounts/donations…etc.

Survey the goalies – We are in the process of handing out a survey out to all goalies. This will include a section for the parents to fill out as well. We will compile the info and develop individual development plans (IDP) for each goalie and work with their coaches to follow through and track. 

Evaluations – We will provide general feedback to each goalie via an evaluation form. This will very generic and WILL NOT be viewed as a rating type document.  

Mentor Program – We will use the older/advanced goalies, IE Midgets, Bantams, advanced PW’s, to help out the Goalie Training Team (GTT).