Station 1 - Stops and Starts. 1St Time Through Have the Players Face the Lobby and Stop

ADM Practice #4

Description

Station 1 - stops and starts. 1st time through have the players face the lobby and stop with both feet. Next time through Stop facing the stands. Next time stop facing the lobby with just their right foot (inside edge). Next time facing the stands with just their left foot (inside edge). Next time facing the lobby with just their left foot (outside edge). Next time facing the stands with right foot (outside edge). If time move to backwards skating and stops (1st time through v stop facing the ends, next time face lobby, then the stands)
Station 2 - monkey in the middle. One puck and one player in the middle tries to intercept the pass. If the player holds it for longer than 5 seconds, the coach makes them leave the circle and skate around it once while the others keep playing. Don't let anyone be it for longer than 30 seconds.
Station 3 - PVC pipe stickhandling. Use the course however you want. Start at one end and go through all the cones. Next call out the letter M, V, E, T,etc. (any letter)
Station 4 - Figure 4 passing. X3 passes to X4. X4 passes to X5 and then breaks for the net. X5 hits X4 with return pass. Focus on passing aheadof the player so they can skate into it. X5 becomes new X4, X3 becomes new X5. X4 gets in line. Next person in line becomes new X3. Goalies will participate in this drill 2 times with their age group.
Station 5 - Race cars. All players start by the corner across the goal line. Have them do a 4 lap race clockwise around the course. Next time have them start on goal line by the crease. Have them do a 4 lap race counter clockwise. Next make two teams and pair like abilities up against each other. Only have two go at a time with sticks. After two-3 laps the next player skates into the passing zone (blue zone) partner passes them the stick. and they keep skating until all the players have gone.
Station 6 - Rebound Game (if we don't have a goalie, we will use the shooter tutor. One player stands at the top and takes shot. Make it, take it. Players try and get the rebound. Get one point for goal. Shooters rotate if the shooter does not score. Goalie gets 1 point for covering the puck, or having it touch the boards or bumpers.
Goalie station - 1) goalie skates to middle. Shuffles twice to one side. Drops in butterfly. Pivots and recovers to the middle 2) Post to opposite top of crease (banana curve). drop to butterfly, pivot (push or skate). Center shot.

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Notes

5 Minutes free play (dump the pucks and let the kids skate around and shoot (coaches get out the bumpers)

10 minutes – small area game (divide into 3 sections with bumpers across the blue lines) we will play freeze tag in the end zones. Freeze tag with 3 taggers. Older house players can come down with the squirts. Frozen players must go down on one knee. Teammates must do a complete 360 around the player to unfreeze them. Game ends if players can remain unfrozen for 3 minutes or everyone is tagged. Switch up the taggers (adjust the time or number of taggers to try and give everyone a chance to be tagger)

6 stations x 7 minutes a station