Rep Tryouts: Phase 1
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The first phase of the rep tryouts is dedicated to skills evaluation, which is crucial for players in the U11 and U13 age groups. This phase aims to assess individual skills that directly influence a player’s ability to contribute to the team’s success.
Evaluators will focus on key skills such as skating ability, stride, and puck handling under pressure. This assessment provides a baseline for understanding each player’s capabilities and helps in making decisions as tryouts progress, especially when comparing players of similar skill levels.
As players advance to older age groups like U15 and U18, the skill sessions incorporate more tactical elements, including decision-making and handling the puck under pressure. Overall, this skills evaluation is a fundamental component of the tryout process.
Key takeaways
- Phase one focuses on basic skill evaluation.
- Important for U11 and U13 age groups.
- Evaluators assess skating ability and puck handling.
- Provides a baseline for player capabilities.
- Older age groups include more tactical skill assessments.
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Let’s get into the different phases of the tryouts. Uh phase one skills. Um obviously pretty straightforward. It’s it’s a lot of basic skill evaluation. What’s the purpose of that phase? So the the purpose of the skill phase, it’s particularly important in the the U11, U13 age groups where there there really is a direct translation between a player’s individual skills and their ability to to impact a team successfully. So we want to get a really good assessment of uh of player skills. I mean particular skating ability, um their stride, their their ability to uh to handle the puck under pressure and skating, those type of things. So it gives our evaluators a real good baseline of where the kids are. And it also allows, if we do get further down the road in the matrix and we’re trying to decide between player A and and player B, particularly in the younger ages, generally we’ll go to the player that is a stronger skater, has a little bit better, uh, individual skills because they’re going to be stronger in the long run as the as the season progresses. Uh, it’s also still the same concept applies in the in the older age groups, but in the older age groups, even in those, those skill sessions, those skill sessions are or maybe a little bit more tactical, um, in the U15, U18, they’ll be a little bit more decision making and and handling the puck under pressure and and that type of a thing, but uh, it is a key component of of the start of the tryout process.