Reply To: Need drill idea

[Tony]

We do drop the pucks and let the players free play for the first 5 minutes of practice before edge and stride work. All of our drills are done with pucks. Roughly the first 30-40% of practices the players are skating individually with puck on stick. We have been playing ringette 3 on 3 to encourage heads up play and creativity.

The defenseman are headchecking but making a very weak play with the puck when turning. Part of it is panic with the puck and part is a lack of skill to execute an escape move. I have explained that I want them to hold onto the puck but they lack confidence to execute under game duress. We talk a lot about puck protection and escape moves and practice them 1 v 1.

I like Tom's idea. Maybe we run that with a forward pressuring no stick just to work on body positioning.

Dean any NZ transition SAGs that you have would be great!

Thanks again guys!