
Thursday 8/29/24
Thursday 8/29/24

- Off Ice strength and conditioning
- stretching off ice
- Dressing
- Two Hard Laps ON LONG Whistle
- Meet at Corner
- Circle Drills x2
- Goalies break off
- Take shots from coaches
- Russin Circles x2 With Pucks
- Two Hard Laps ON LONG Whistle
- Water Break
- Meet at Board
- Break out
- Regroup 5V2
- Two Hard Laps ON LONG Whistle
- Water Break
- Meet at Board
- Offensive Zone
- Defensive Zone
- Two Hard Laps ON LONG Whistle
- Water Break
- Meet at Board
- PP
- PK
Full Circles with and w/o Pucks Forward and Backwards

Russian Circles
The focus of this drill is SPEED! This drill allows players to move their feet much faster than going all the way around the circle. It is a good drill for Warm-Ups, Skating Drills, or Conditioning Drills. If players are advanced enough, you can try incorporating pucks and going backwards.
Basic Break Out X

Regroup 5 V 2
- Break Out
- Coach Dumps in puck
- Defense passes to F2 (Center)
- F2 passes to F3 (Left Winger)
- F3 passes to F1 (Right Winger)
- F1 passes to D3 (Right Defense)
- D3 passes to 3 options F3,F2, D4
- D4 passes to 3 options F1, F2 or back to D3.
- F1,F2,F3,D3,D4 go back in for a 5 V 2. against D1,D2


Offensive Zone Option 1

Puck Down Low to open Options
Defensive Zone

Wingers Stay High
Center Romes in Middle
Defense Stays low
Aggressive Box to Diamond Penalty Kill
Power Play Overload to Umbrella
Layered Defensive Zone Coverage
Topher Scott from The Hockey Think Tank explains how having Layers in the Defensive Zone will help safeguard your team against getting beat 1 on 1 down low. This setup will give your team "Layers" to help out if someone gets beat.
Topher explains how teams can use set areas of the ice for each position, or more advanced teams can communicate with each other and cover locations of the ice based on their backcheck. Additionally, the defensive team should always have one player covering the front of the net, even if the puck jumps to the other corner.
Below are additional links to connect further with Topher:
- Hockey Think Tank's Culture Corner - videos to improve your teams culture.
- Topher Scott's IHS Contributor Page
- HockeyThinkTank.com
- Hockey Think Tank Podcast (Spotify | Apple Podcast | Google Play)
- Connect with Topher on social:
