The Systems Work

Hi Team,
A kindergarten teacher tells her class she’s a BIG Flyers fan. She’s really excited about it and asks the kids if they’re Flyers fans too. Everyone wants to impress the teacher and say they are too, except ONE kid named Lennie.

The teacher looks at Lennie and says, "Len, you’re not a Flyers fan?"

He says, "Nope, I’m a Maple Leafs fan!"

She says, "Well why are you a Leafs fan and not a Flyers fan?" to which Lennie replies, "Well, my mom is a Leafs fan, and my dad is a Leafs fan, so I’m a Leafs fan."

The teacher's not very happy. She's a little hot under the collar and says, "Well, if your mom's an idiot, and your dad's a moron, then what would you be?!"

Lennie says, "Then I’d be a Flyers fan!"


Your coaches were incredibly proud of you during our game yesterday. The Vultures are a very strong team, perhaps the second strongest team in this league. (The Hawks ARE THE strongest team in this league!)

As much as we did our best to wear down the Vultures, they were doing their best to wear us down too. Your coaches saw you returning to the bench after your shifts exhausted, dripping in sweat, very early in the game. And yet, you all kept going and going and going! Relentless! That was fantastic!

You should all be very proud as well. You made great progress yesterday.

We talked about The Gift, and you started to use it!

We talked about the Man up the Middle, and you started to use that too!

We also talked about a few things we still need to work on.

We had difficulty getting the ball deep into the opposition zone. We tried to carry the ball in and were often intercepted by the Vultures defence, or caught by their back checking forwards. Use The Gift. Dump the ball in and apply immediate hard pressure! It works!

We also got pinned down in our zone several times. We’ll talk about a system for that scenario today before our game. The Condors used it against us, and we’ll use it when necessary. It’s called Four Deep.

I’ll leave it at that for now. Keep up the great work team! Your coaches are really enjoying working with you.

Coach Steve