Reply To: Warm up on ice before the game.

[DMan]

Pops,

We have done several different routines, but the one I liked best involved a single shooter warming the goalie up first while forwards do a passing drill in the 2 circles, and defence pair up and pass while transitioning back and forth outside the blue. Next all players move to the blue linesalong the boards and face center ice. Player 1 steps out backwards without puck, touch passes with his own line, then opens up and passes to the opposite line. He gets the pass back and shoots (don't know the name of this, but I took it from one of Tom's TPS videos.) Next the forwards are in the corners and D in front of the net and at points. F's pass to point and head to net, D shoot for tip-ins while net-front D box out and take sticks. End with a butterfly passing & shooting.

It sounds like a lot, but we get a little bit of everything in…..heavy on the passing, a little bit of contact, heads-up shooting with game-like conditions at the end.

Hope this helps.