Describe your age group, drills, and scoring scale. Makeform turns them into a hockey tryout evaluation form for rating skating, puck skills, game awareness, effort, and position-specific performance.
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Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Youth hockey coaches evaluating a mixed-position group
Format
Five-point rubric with required coach notes
Prompt size
397 chars
Example form structure
Five-point rubric with required coach notes
Player, jersey number, and birth year
Preferred position
Skating and puck-skill ratings
Strength and development notes
Roster recommendation
Suggested routing tags
Forwards
Defense
Goalies
Define what each score means before tryouts begin so every evaluator applies the same scale.
Step 1
Identify
player, jersey, position, and session
Step 2
Observe
drills, small-area play, and scrimmage
Step 3
Score
shared rubric plus specific evidence
Step 4
Review
compare notes and roster recommendations
Consistent evaluation
A shared form gives every coach the same criteria while preserving the examples and context behind each rating.
Define low, middle, and high ratings so evaluators use the same anchors.
Show goalie criteria only for goalies and separate forward or defense prompts when the position changes.
Require one observed strength and development point beside the total.
Built for the tryout plan
Tailor sections to the drill schedule and ask coaches only for what they can reliably observe in that station.
Capture skating, passing, puck control, and shooting ratings immediately after each focused station.
Record decisions, puck support, pressure response, and compete level in constrained game situations.
Assess positioning, transitions, communication, discipline, and impact when the whole game is in view.
Use a dedicated branch for movement, tracking, angles, rebounds, recoveries, and puck handling.
Tryout workflow
Set the criteria, collect separate evaluations, and bring structured observations into the selection meeting.
Give the builder the age group, roster level, positions, stations, scoring scale, and decision categories.
Replace vague labels such as talent with actions coaches can see: shoulder checks, gap control, puck support, or rebound direction.
Have each coach identify themselves, the session, and the player before submitting an independent set of scores.
Send responses to a sheet, compare ratings by player and position, then discuss disagreements using the attached observations.
Evaluation methods
The best tryout record is quick enough for rink-side entry and structured enough for a fair selection discussion.
Field guide
Build each section around an observation a coach can make during a drill, small-area game, or scrimmage.
Player identity
Use jersey number for rink-side identification, with name, birth year, position, and session for review.
Skating
Rate acceleration, forward and backward stride, edges, agility, balance, and transitions when the drill exposes them.
Puck skills
Rate puck control, passing, receiving, shooting, and protection while the player moves or faces pressure.
Hockey sense
Small-area games reveal scanning, support, spacing, anticipation, and choices that drills may miss.
Compete and habits
Observe puck battles, back pressure, shift effort, communication, response to instruction, and discipline.
Recommendation
Collect an overall assessment, selection category, confidence, strongest attribute, and development priority.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for coaches designing a consistent player scoring process.
It is a scorecard for recording player identity, position, skill ratings, observations, notes, and a selection recommendation in one shared format.
Evaluate skating, puck control, passing, shooting, hockey sense, positioning, compete level, communication, coachability, and discipline. Add position-specific criteria for defense and goalies, scoring only observable skills.
A five-point scale is easy to use at the rink when every number has a written anchor. For example, 1 may mean the skill was not yet demonstrated, 3 means it met the expected level, and 5 means it was consistently demonstrated under pressure. Tailor definitions to the team's age and level.
Use conditional logic to show goalie fields when goalie is selected. Rate stance, angles, depth, crease movement, tracking, rebound control, recovery, glove and blocker use, puck handling, communication, and composure instead of forcing goalie play into skater criteria.
Yes. Collect evaluator, session, station, player, and jersey number on every response. Export independent submissions to compare scores and supporting notes before the roster decision.
Define observable criteria and anchors, assign consistent viewing areas, identify players by jersey, and collect independent ratings before discussion. Review disagreements alongside written examples instead of relying only on averages.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Yes. Use dropdowns for jersey and position, group rating scales, and reserve notes for one strength and development point. Coaches can submit each player response on a phone or tablet.
Bring one shared rubric to the rink.
