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: You do not need goalies or nets for all of these drills.  Adjust based on your team structure. 

Practice Theme: The drills in this practice are designed to help your players practice and develop angling habits in different situations.

3 Key Focus Points

1. Skating Routes -  Take routes that allow you to match the speed of the player you are trying to take an angle on to cut off passing lanes and put you in a position to cut through their hands 
2. Contact - Use your stick and body position to keep the player towards the boards and not let them cut back to open ice
3. Stick Detail - Lead with your stick to take away passing lanes and to get your stick on the puck at the point of contact