• Players skate all over the ice, stick handling the pucks
• Coaches interact with the players passing the pucks back and foreth
• Encourage kids to hand the pucks, forehand, backhand, kick the pucks with their skates, no shooting against the boards

1. Skating
   • Forward stride and bend, stop at blueline
   • Forward jump stride, stop at blueline
   • Forward crossovers
   • Backward c-cuts
   • backward striding
   • backward crossovers
2. Puck Control
   • Stationary puck control
   • Figure eights
   • Toe drag
   • Partner puck control
3. Pond Hockey
   • 3 on 3 cross ice
4. Passing
   • Stationary forehand passing / rec
   • Stationary backhand passing / rec
   • Telescope passing / rec
5. Balance and Agility
   • Stationary balance 1 leg
   • Stationary deep knee bends
   • Inside / outside edges
   • Gliding on one foot

• As each skates steps onto the ice they are given either a puck, tennis ball, or street hockey ball
• Skate in any direction on the ice
• On the whistle the player must exchange their item with another piece of equipment
• No shooting allowed, only puck control

Four stations, five minutes at each station. Change stations on a determined signal.

• Station 1 (one of the end zones)
  • Players do crossovers around circle 1 (two and a half times) and then around circle 2 (two times)
  • Send 2-3 players at a time
  • Repeat 2-3 times
  • Do same as 1, but with pucks
• Station 2 (Between blue line and red line)
  • Players run over agility boards. Execute a glide turn at pylons 1 and skate to pylon 2. Stop using tow foot front stop facing boards. Skate backwards from pylon 2 to pylon 3 and stop. Do lateral crossovers back to original position, repeat.
• Station 3 (Between blue line and red line)
  • Group one skates backwards to pylon and pivots backwards to forward, then accelerates out of turn, skating forward and execute two foot stop at boards, then go to end of group two line
  • Group two skates forward to pylon and pivots forward and backwards. Skating backwards to sideboards and stopping. Go to end of group one line
• Station Four (one of the end zones)
  • Player controls puck while weaving through pylons
  • Player performs glide turn at last pylon, skating forward for ten metres before stopping. Face boards when you stop
  • Skate backwards to opposite side of rink while controlling the puck

Three stations, 5 minutes each, change stations on a determined signal

• Station 1: Tight Turn Competition
  • Arrange players into two groups
  • Arrange pylons as shown, and have players race for a spotted puck and finnish with a shot on goal (add a second puck for second player if needed)
• Station 2: Control puck with feet
  • Players cross the ice using feet to control the puck
  • Options are keeping the puck in feet at all times, or kicking puck slightly ahead (1 metre) alternate skates
• Station 3: Chaos
  • Have each player skate randomly with a puck throughout the zone
  • Coaches add pressure to check and encourage to keep head up

Players skate to the blue line and...

1. Coast on both skates, jump the red line and blue line. Take off on two feet and land on two feet.
2. Coast on both skates. Jump the red line, turn 180 degrees in air and land backwards. At the blue line jump and turn 180 degrees and land going forwards. Always take off on two feet and land on two feet
3. Coast on only one skate. Jump red and blue line on one skate. Do not put other skate down
4. Repeat last point with other leg

Do these 2 or 3 times each

• Use a puck
• Use three areas and play cross ice
• Use pylons as goals (instead of nets)
• To score puck pust hit pylon
• No goalies

Players skate clockwise around the ice. At blue line they perform four warm-up exercises

• Touch toes
• Squat low
• Pull knee to chest
• Touch one knee to ice

Between the blue lines: Skates stay on ice at all times, spread legs wide and then bring them in together.

1. Cross ice touching knee on ice after each stride. I.e drive with left skate, touch left knee to ice and get up. Drive with right skate, touch right knee to ice and get up, repeat across ice. Do three times
2. Cross ice doing forward alternate leg crossovers
3. Players skate forward and perform a task at each section of ice.
   1. Jump over agility board
   2. Dive under obstacle (set on two high pylons)
   3. Jump over agility board set on pylons
   4. Dive under obstacle set on two pylons. Player gets up and turns 360 degrees around pylon, skates forwards (six metres) pivots forward to backwards and skates backwards to boards. Lateral crossovers back to original postion. Repeat
4. Same set up as 3. Players can carry puck with them. Must slide puck under obstacles on pylons, skate around and puck it up. Perform an open ice carry on the return to position.

Repeat using route-2 as players should do on forehand and backhand

Review and demonstrate key points

1. Players partner off approximately six metres apart
   • Practice forehand pass and receive
   • practice backhand pass and receive
   • Alternate with players spaced ten metres apart
2. Players practice stickhandling across the ice stop and repeat.

Repeat 6-7 times