Rate Limiters and Practicing SOO Shots
A rate limiter is a constraint that limits how quickly someone can develop a motor skill. Rate limiters can be specific to the individual, task, or environment.
One of the major differences between a USPHL player and a USHL player isn’t the dropping of one letter…
A major rate-limiter is the ability to make plays under pressure using a pass as the solution. In 1v1 situations, it’s becoming blurry if a player is ‘good’ or not. Across the board, puck mastery is improving and watching a player skate out of pressure at a summer camp isn’t going to tell you if he can play at the next level or not. Neither are his orange and blue gloves.
What is going to give it away is if he can pass out of his problems with a high level of success.
This ability is more prominent when watching the USHL vs. NAHL.
D1 vs. D3.
AHL vs. ECHL.
Practicing Passing and SOO Shots
“Whether that be in the schedule structure, training content or the way we present information to the players. In training, we create situations where we don’t tell the players the purpose of the game as we want them to work it out for themselves and very quickly adapt.”
-Eddie Jones
Related Reading on SOO Shots:
Here’s just 1 way to go about practicing passing under pressure into tightly defended areas:
Set up a situation where a player works into high-zone ice
Add 1 or 2 defenders and monitor the success rate
Add or subtract defenders to get the right level of challenge
Don’t tell players how to solve the problem
Incentivize things you’d like to see that increase the odds of scoring goals
