Please Note: The Practice of the Week is 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.

The drills and games in this practice are designed to help your players work on attacking and defending in various 2 v 1 situations. 

Focus Points

Below are the main focus points for all 3 players involved in a 2 v 1 situation.  Remember the importance of the player without the puck when creating offense in 2 v 1 situations. Finding the open ice and become a scoring threat is critical

Puck Carrier

1. Awareness - the puck carrier is the final decision maker, they need to have awareness to read their teammate and the defender
2. Duel threat - when on a rush, the puck carrier should remain a duel threat (to pass or shoot) by staying in the attack position and not skating themselves out of a shooting angle
3. Use Deception (older ages) - when the basics of 2 on 1's are grasped, this is a great time to add deception with fake shots/passes to open up more lanes

Player without the Puck

1. Create a passing lane - it is crucial for the player without the puck to find the open ice to creating a passing option for the puck carrier
2. Open yourself to the play - the player without the puck needs to be ready to accept a pass and open themselves up to the puck carrier to become a scoring threat

Defending an incoming rush

1. Hold the middle ground - don't chase the puck carrier
2. Maintain good stick position on the ice - never have your stick fully extended 
3. Never let the puck carrier cross in front of the goalies eyes - keep him/her to the outside

Practice Logistics

*make sure players get reps at both offense and defense

1. Rondo Circle Passing to 2 v 1 should be done at opposite corners of the ice - with 2 v 1 heading the length of the ice
2. Use 2/3's of the ice for the Angling Transition Drill while using 1/3 of the ice for the Quick 2 v 1 Attack
3. Use the Net 2 v 1 should be ran out of both ends of the ice
4. Finish with 2 v 1 Quick Strike Game (if time permits)