Please Note: The Practice of the Week is usually designed to be utilized across multiple age levels. With that being said, we highly encourage you to adjust the drills based on your team's age and skill levels. These drills and practices can be modified to become more basic or more advanced.

This practice setup is intended to split up defense and forwards to work on specific positional skills. 

The practice focus for defense is to work on the following skills:

1. Retrievals
2. Footwork
3. Deception at the blue line 

The practice focus for offense is to work on the following skills:

1. Shooting in stride
2. Quick releases
3. Deception

Practice Coaching Points:

1. Use Deception: Deception can be used in every aspect of the game and can also be implemented into each of these drills (for both forwards and defensemen).  Ask your players how you think they can incorporate deception into their reps after explaining the drill
2. Quickness: Based on age and skill level, you can push the pace of the drills and encourage them to progress the quickness of their movement in their footwork, passes and releases