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.

ALSO NOTE: This is too many drills for one practice.  Take the ones you like and adjust for your team and time constraints.  

Practice Theme: The drills and games in this practice are designed to help your players work on 1 on 1's in various situations.

3 Key Focus Points

Offense:

1. Head up - see where the open ice is and what the defenders position is
2. Protect the puck - use your body and low center of gravity to keep the defender from the puck
3. Use deception - use false information from your eyes, head, body, and feet to create space & separation from the defender

Defense:

1. Eyes - keep your eyes focused on the players chest, not the puck.
2. Stick on the ice - use short stabs and not a sweeping motion to achieve stick on puck.
3. Positioning - utilize good angles & gaps.