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Originally Posted by Sample00
so here's an interesting topic for discussion.
when is it ok/not ok to run the score.
recently a minor hockey team went to a Winter Games play down and the final score in the game was 47-1.
my question to you is, is this a good thing or a bad thing.
and more importantly how do you, as a coach, advise your team of minor hockey league players to back off and not embarrass the other team.
secondly, if you back off, how do you make it look like you arent trying to embarrass the other team.
edit: no, my sons team was not involved
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After leading by an embarassing margin, as a coach you tell the team that before scoring to make X amount of passes in the offensive zone or make them pass back to the d-man at least once, or cycle a few times before a goal or a combination of all three. That way it takes longer in between additional goals (Sparing some embarassment) and the players are at least practicing and making the game more challanging for themselves. As long as some of the passes aren't done obviously when a shot is warrented it wouldn't look like your foot was off the gas.