By Laura Warner
The best (and easiest) way to score on a ringette triangle is to exhaust and demoralize the defenders with smart passing. There is a really cool concept you’ll want to use with your line mates in the offensive end to accomplish this. It’s called the L Offence. I’m going to show you right now how to use it to create lethal scoring chances (don’t miss the two DVD clips at the end).
In the L offence, forwards create speed by passing the ringette ring quickly. The basic premise of the L offence is that the ring carrier always has a minimum of 2 passing options.
Notice that the ring carrier (F2) has 2 passing options: F1 and F3. Because of where F1 and F3 are standing, F2 could pass them the ring quite easily.
The offensive players without the ring constantly move into a position where the ring carrier can pass the ring to them. Using this system, the offensive players are almost always set up in the shape of an L.
After the first pass, F1 skates to the same side as F3.
After the second pass, F2 skates lower in the zone.
The rule is that no one is ever totally on a diagonal from the ring carrier.
When a player is diagonally across the ice from the ring, the ring carrier often cannot get the pass through to her. We say the diagonal player is not supporting the ring.
In this diagram, F1 is diagonally across from the ring. If the defence were set up, F3 could not get a pass through to F1. Because F3 can get a pass to F1, we say that F1 is to supporting the ring. It is easy for the defensive triangle to cover this because only F2 is open for the pass.
Of course, the ultimate objective of the L offence is not passing – the objective is to score.
Here is an example of how it all unfolds to create a fantastic scoring opportunity:
Why the L Offence works
The key to the L offence is to move the ring quickly. When the ring moves quickly, the defensive triangle has to move quickly and defenders eventually get caught out of position.
The forwards` job is to notice when the defence is vulnerable and drive at one of the defenders one on one.
Check out this DVD clip.
The player who drives in on the low defender chooses to pass across the crease instead of shooting. That`s the beauty of the L Offence. It sets up multiple scoring and passing options.
Here’s another example of using the L Offence to set up a player to drive on the low defender in the triangle. Notice that the key is timing. The ring carrier only passes when her line mate is ready to drive on the opposite side of the triangle:
This is exactly what our oppositio uses against us what is the best way to defend against this and not allow them to set up ?
Passing across the top of the triangle from the elbow of the ‘L’ the passer should consider the position of the defending player’s stick at the top of the triangle. The receiver on the other side of the triangle also has to read the position of the stick of the player at the top of the triangle if they want to get the pass.
Senario 1: Top of defender’s triangle has their stick to block pass across the top of the triangle (pointing towards your net at the other end of the ice) The passer in the elbow of the ‘L’ has two choices one to pass safely down toward the player at the goal line or to pass in the hole between the top of the triangle and the gap between the defenceman and the top of the triangle. Only pass in the gap if the receiver also sees the opening and moves into the gap to receive other wise the pass is down low. The pass through the gap has to be helped by the player down low drawing the defence down to them to widen the gap and the pass has to be away from the both players on that side almost dead in the middle of the triangle to be picked up by the incoming forward on the opposite side of the triangle.
Senerio 2: the stick of the defender at the top of the triangle has her stick protecting the gap between her and the defence. The passer in the elbow of the ‘L’ then has a better chance to pass across the top of the triangle or can once again pass down low.
Always pass in a straight line along the arms of the ‘L’ never across.
The best way to defend the L-offence is to keep your sticks on the ice and prevent passes from getting down low. Most defenders allow the passes to get through. They must stay low and keep their heads on a swivel and be aware of all passes being made. If they keep the passes on the outside this will cut down good scoring chances.
Cheers,
Lisa
what types of food should I eat before a game to increase my stamina? I was told spaghetti helps,but what kind of fruits or something like that?