How do I teach hustle to my pee wee players? They insist on trying to carry the puck from end-to-end slowing down in the neutral zone. They never head-man the puck. There is no speed to back-check or fore-check. Help!!!! I'm getting gray hair.
I have had groups like that and it helped to play passing games. The most effective practice activity I did with a U17 team was to play full ice with the rule there had to be at least ONE pass in EACH zone. It worked miracles with that group.
Thank you. I will give it a try.
Bob
Another good one, that I got from this site is the 3 Zone Scrimage. Where you have 2 teams divided into 3 groups, one for each zone. Each group must remain in their zone.
The puck is advanced from each zone by passing to a teammate in the adjacent zone. On a turnover the puck goes the opposite way. Players can rotate zones after goals.
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