Please Note: The Practice of the Week is designed to bring value across multiple age levels. You can use this to build ideas to develop your own practice.  With that being said, we highly encourage you to adjust the drills based on your team's age and skill levels. IHS should always be used as a starting point and you can add/remove constraints to fit your team.
 

We do not recommend having 7 drills in a practice, but we wanted there to be options for multiple age levels.  Please copy the practice into your library and edit for your team.

This practice plan encourages players to develop wall play skills that can be utilized in every area of the ice. The practice starts with low-pressure repetitions on wall retrievals for and then progresses to use the skills in various live game play situations.

Coaching Points

1. Encourage players to explore different variations of wall pick-ups and adding in the use of deception in their ability to retrieve pucks along the walls. 
2. After you pick the puck from the wall, protect it and work to get off the wall and into space to make a play
3. This is a great practice for defenders to work on angles, body positioning and stick detail along the wall