UE Coaching Resources: Goalie Evaluation Plan and Drills

Just to let everyone know that I have uploaded my goalie evaluation plans and drill that I used for the 2011 season for a couple of local associations.  I think these plans offer a well rounded cross-section of drills that should help young goalies demonstrate to the association evaluators their basic and advanced goaltending skill.

The drill plan is broken down into two general age-based categories.  The first set of plans is for the Atom and Pee Wee-aged goaltenders.  The second set of drills is for Bantam and Midget-aged goaltenders.  The first set of drill focus more on basic movement and save techniques with only a minimum of game-like drills.  The drill set for older goalies is designed to allow the goaltenders to show advanced skills to help the evaluators discover which goaltenders are becoming competent in high-level game situations.

In the package of downloads, there is my evaluation sheet template.  I have not been a big fan of using a 1 to 5 point or 1 to 10 point system for evaluating goaltender skills.  The issue that I have with this type of system is that the coaches' will forget what would denote a 3 or 4 in a skill between different goalies.  In lieu of that 5 point system, I prefer to use a relative ranking system where the group of goalies can be ranked in order for different skills.  For example, in the evaluation of rebound control in a group of seven goalies, the coaches can each rank the goaltenders from the best (ranked #1) to the least skilled (#7) in the evaluation category.

The complete drill sheets, evaluation template, and drill explanations can be downloaded off the media section of this website.  Goalie Evaluation Plan

Below is a sample of a set of drills used in the Bantam/Midget evaluations.