First 5 Minutes -Free Skate with Pucks While Coaches Setup the Bumpers
ADM practice #7
· First 5 minutes -free skate with pucks while coaches setup the bumpers
· 10 minutes of scrimmage –soccer - The focus of this drill is footwork, balance, agility, teamwork
· 6 stations x 7 minutes per station
Description
Station 1 - Race for the goal line. O4 starts with the puck slightly behind O5. O4's objective is to make it to the goal line. O5 uses angling and body position to prevent O4 and take the puck. Players return up the side. This drill should be done at a high pace with players switching lines each time. The focus of this drill is on angling, body positioning and body contact.
Station 2 – PUCK - just like in basketball, players pair up and play PUCK. Focus should be on individual creativity. (shots from knees, spin around, flip shots, etc.) We will add some cones to this area so the players can use them for stickhandling before the shot to increase difficulty. The focus of this drill is goal scoring creativity. Scoring goals is part art form and we want to foster that creativity in our players.
Station 3 - Attack the triangle - using the PVC triangle men, players start on one side of the red line and attack both triangle men. They then make a turn and come back down the other side, attack the last triangle man and then taking a shot on the goalie. The focus of this drill is stickhandling, body control, agility, puck control.
Station 4 - Backcheck game - O1 starts with the puck and tries to skate to the far boards. He must touch the puck to the boards for 1 second. O2 starts behind O1 by about 2-3 feet and backchecks to prevent O1 from getting to the boards. Increase the difficulty by having the players start from their knees. Make sure returning players come back up the sides. The focus of this drill is backchecking, angling, speed.
Station 5 - Crash the net - 5 cones are placed around the net. 1 at each post and the remaining 3 about 5 feet off the crease in an umbrella pattern. Players start in the corner and pucks are placed in the crease. Use the shooter tutor net at this station. Players sprint in from the corner to the first cone and try and knock a puck into the net. Then they skate backward to the next cone. Once they make it to the cone, they immediately stop and sprint in to the crease, trying to shoot a puck into the net. They continue with this for the 2 remaining outer cones and then return to the opposite corner. Coaches reset the pucks and the drill starts again form the other side. Use a bunch of pucks in the crease. The focus of this drill is crashing the net for rebounds staying out of the crease, being at the appropriate depth to find the puck, quick acceleration to get to the rebound, forward to backward transition, backward to forward transition.
Station 6 - 3 v 1 - 3 players are on offense, 1 player is on defense. one offensive player starts out behind the net with the puck. The offensive players try to work it around in the triangle, while the defenseman tries to break it up. Rotate the players every 30 seconds or so. The focus of this drill is to practice the setting up in the attack triangle and continuously moving to open space in that triangle.
Goalie station - goalies will participate in station 3 and 6 for two rotations of their team. The remaining two stations, they will come to the goalie station. 1) Goalie pushes out and squares to the cone. He then t-pushes or butterfly slides over to face the shot from the coach. If we have enough coaches, we can use a coach in place of the cone who makes a pass over to the other coach for the shot.
2) Cover the puck drill. Goalie gets set in the middle of 4-5 pucks. Coach points to a puck and the goalie must cover it. The focus of drill 1 is to have the goalie quickly recover across the crease and set up for the back door shot. The focus of these drills are proper technique to cover the puck and not have it squirt out for a rebound.
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