Around The Pylons Drill
Players learn to skate with the puck around a designated path or course. You can make this drill progressively harder by adding more pylons, and by increasing the length the player has to skate.
Tight Figure 8’s with Pucks Drill
Players practice making tight turns while controlling the puck in this skating drill.
Race To The Puck Drill
Players work on skating with speed in this fundamental drill. A variation of this drill would be to have the players skate backward to the blue line, pivot, skate around the cone and then race to the puck.
High, Low Shots Drill
Players practice handling the puck, cutting and shooting in this drill. Players will work on using crossovers and cutting tightly next to the cones before coming out and taking a hard, powerful, on target shot.
1 on 1 Keep Away
Players learn to control the puck while under pressure from a defender in this drill.
Pivot Drill
Defensemen work on transitioning between forward and backward skating in this great defensive drill.