Reply To: Summer Camp?

We had this summer hockey camp last week from Mon to Fri and we implemented it almost exactly like Tom have suggested here. I divided the whole group into three groups with 6+6 skaters, i.e., 6 black and 6 yellow jerseys. These groups were as similar tier as possible in order to make the SAGs even. Then first we usually skated like 5' forwards, backwards and curves/pivots, then the ice was always divided to three sections. One or two sections always had SAG (1-1/2-1/1-2/2-2/3-3), one section had passing/shooting drill and sometimes one section was for skating drills. We also played keep-away and 2-2 or 3-3 passing games, where 3/4/5 passes equals goal, since there were only two goalies present. One good puck handling game we used is played inside face-off circle where everyone tries to hold to their own puck and try to get the other's puck outside of the face-off circle. The last man inside the circle with his puck wins. This was also a fun game and very much like keep-away but stress more on puck handling and puck protection. Usually after these three stations we then played 20' to 30' 6-6/5-5 game with the whole ice. We also used floorball and handball SAGs at off-ice to teach roles 1 and 2. Seemed like every kid enjoyed the week, I certainly did, kids love to play, eat and play again 🙂.