One play. Five jobs.
You draw the play on a whiteboard in practice, before the game, and everyone nods. Then three of the players skate out to the wrong spot and you are yelling to them where to be. It is because the diagram shows every job at once and a player can only hold their own.
Honest Hockey shows them what their job is, specific to them. It is interactive, and it gives them the time to watch, listen and learn on their own. Know their role, know their teammates' roles. They can go over it as many times as they want.
A whiteboard
Every job on one board, drawn once, ninety seconds before they go back out.
Nothing on it moves. A player has to work out which arrow is theirs, then picture the rest of it happening at speed with eleven other people.
And they only see it once.
Interactive learning
The play moves. A player taps their own position and watches their own job, in plain language, as many times as they need.
They also see where everybody else is going, which is the part a still picture cannot teach.
Then it asks them one question about a situation. Not a memory test.
Try one, right here
This is the real thing, not a video. Pick a position along the top and press play. It works the same way in the app.
What a player actually gets
The same play, told five different ways.
They pick their position. Centre, wing or defence. Their job is different in each one, and so are the words.
They watch it move. All five players, the puck, the whole thing at speed, with their own instruction on screen as it happens.
They see everyone else's job too. A winger learns where the centre is going to be, which is what makes the play work in a game.
Then it asks them one question. A situation, not a fact. Wrong answer and it plays again. Right answer and they move on.
Nothing is scored and nobody is told. Not the coach, not the parent. The moment a player thinks they are being marked, they stop answering honestly.
The plays, built and narrated
Every play is animated by position and traced from a real playbook: neutral zone, breakouts, forechecks, offensive zone, power play and penalty kill. The sample above is free to watch. The rest come with any subscription, team or individual.
Neutral Zone 6
Breakouts 3
Forecheck 4
Offensive Zone 5
Power Play 3
Penalty Kill 3
Defense 2
Plays come with any subscription, team or individual. A free account sees the sample above.
Get them learning
Honest Hockey is on the App Store and Google Play, and the play library is in the app now. Start a team trial or an individual plan and the plays are there with it.