What are we doing at practice?
Tuesday, January 9th from 7:45pm to 8:45pm
Bridgetown Arena
Practice Plan
Skating Skill Development
10 minutes
Get comfortable with practising different skills you'd typically use during a regular hockey shift, like sharp and smooth changes in direction, tight and wide turns, pivoting, and skating forward. We’re only going to do Hard Direction Change (Skill 1 of 5 show at the 0:27 min in video) and Slide Out to Shuffle (Skill 4 of 5 show at the 2:00min mark on video) today.
Review the videos and let me know if you want to do a demo for the team!
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While the players are practicing specific skating drills, you can takeover the net and work specficially on:
Angle Around the Net Drill
10 min
The 1 v 1 Angle Around The Net Drill is an excellent drill to practice forechecking angling for forwards and puck retrievals for defencemen. Forwards and defenceman should get reps at both positions.
Oreo Drill
15 min
Watch the video of the Oreo Drill. We will be playing the Oreo Drill from the red line!
To start: 3 players line up on the blue line. The players behind them are on the opposite team.
On the whistle, coach dumps a puck into the zone to begin a 3 on 3.
The offensive team is trying to score, while the defensive team is trying to pass the puck to the next players in line.
When the defensive team passes the puck to the next players in line, the team that was previously playing offense, is now on defense, and the players who just got the puck are now on offense.
The game is continuous, keep score for your team!
Tip: When trying to move the puck out of the zone to your team, use the skills we have been working on to break out of the zone.
Tag Up Forecheck
15 minutes
The Tag Up Forecheck drill is an excellent drill to practice forechecking, breakout, and rush attack principles. It starts as a neutral zone forecheck and progresses to a full in zone forecheck.
