Reply To: Daily Drill Part Seven

[Tom Molloy]

Puck Protection and Battling Along the Boards Sequence

This is the sequence I use when coaching puck protection skills and the the offensive and defensive battles along the boards.

We work on escape moves, cut backs, going into the boards at an angle and protecting yourself along the boards before we do this.

Then:
1. Puck protection shielding the puck offensively and stick on the puck on defense. Partner work all over the ice.
2. a. Partners along the boards. a. cut backs, change of pace, pass to self for ten seconds then alternate.
b. Protect the puck while the defender passively works on keeping the stick on the puck and on the ice.
c. Ten second battles alternating who starts with the puck.
3. Move to one end and use both corners or if there is a goalie only one corner. Use the same sequence as in 2 but add go to the net on the whistle. ie. vs. passive resistance and then battle.
4. Play a d400 low game from the top of the circles in of 1 on 1 on 1. All against each other. Lots of battling and puck protection skills needed.
5. Another D400 game from the top of the circles. We had 8 at one end and 10 at the other. 2 on 2 and when you get the puck you pass to the waiting players who attack vs the original attackers. Sequence like in the Perry Pearn of attack-defend-pass-rest. New attackers go on offense as soon as the get the puck.
6. D100 game with one minute shifts and pass to goalie on the whistle. All goals must come from playes originating below the goal line. This rule causes board battles to happen and the skills just practiced are needed.

I am attaching a pdf of the sequence.

We did a warm up and a shootout after.

Attachments

• B500 Battling on the Boards Sequence.pdf (307 KB)

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