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.

Practice Theme: Passing and moving to open space should be one of the non-negotiable habits that you are instilling in your team.  The drills and games in this practice are designed to help your players work on passing and moving to open space with urgency. 

3 Key Focus Points

1. Head Up: Keep your head up so you know where your teammates are and where the open ice is.
2. Pass & Move To Open Space: As soon as you pass the puck to your teammate, explode to open space. Do not stop and stare at your pass.
3. Use Deception: Just like you can fake out a player when you have the puck, you can also fake out the defenders who are covering you when you don't have the puck.