Category: Ice Hockey Drills
Goalie Drill – Rebound Clearing – Hockey Resource
This goalie drill focuses on clearing pucks out of the crease/zone using their stick after a bad rebound or when the puck is near the goaltender. It can also be used to increase the goalie’s endurance, mobility and puck handling skills. Although this drill is useful for more than just puck clearing, if the goaltender…
Goalie Drill – Puck Clearing – Hockey Resource
This drill will help the goalie improve his puck handling and judgement skills in situations where he must clear the puck out of the zone. Place multiple pucks in the zone. The goalie starts in his net and must skate as fast as possible and shoot the puck out of the zone (either directly or…
Goalie Drill – Skating in the Circle – Hockey Resource
This drill is aimed at improving goaltender proficiency with telescoping (forward and backward) and shuffling. The drill can also be modified to practise the hybrid slide and t-pushes. The goalie starts from the bottom of the circle and telescopes to the top of the circle. He then telescopes backwards to the face-off dot and stops.…
Circles Skating Drill – Hockey Resource
This drill is designed to practice turning, cross-overs and acceleration. The drill is most effective on weak to moderate skaters as the turn radius is too large to be effective for good skaters. To keep the drill effective for good skaters, the circle radius should be reduced for stronger skaters by using cones. This skating…
Goalie Skating Drill – The Triangle – Hockey Resource
This warmup drill is good to practice the T-push and shuffle. It can also be modified to practice the hybrid slide. This drill is a very good way to practice the skating basics before attempting more advanced drills. The goaltender starts from the post and T-pushes or shuffles to the top of the crease. He…
Goalie Skating Drill – The Box – Hockey Resource
This is one of the first drills that a goaltender should learn. It is a great warmup drill for goaltenders and can even be done during play stoppages to keep focused. It can also be used to practice skating (T-push and shuffle) and the hybrid slide. The goaltender starts on one of the posts and…
Goalie Skating Drill – Across the Crease – Hockey Resource
This goalie skating drill can be used as a warmup or to strengthen skating skills (T-push mobility technique). It also practices stopping with the correct leg when moving across the crease. For this drill, the goaltender starts on one of the posts. They then T-pushes diagonally to the opposite corner of the crease (1 explosive…
The Horseshoe drill – Hockey Resource
This drill is very simple and most often used pre-game to warm up the players and goaltender. It features some skating, passing and shooting. Players are evenly divided in both corners at one end of the ice surface. A player starts from his corner and skates around the faceoff circle located just outside the blue…
3-Man Horseshoe Drill – Hockey Resource
This drill is good as a warm-up during a practice or to make the players use their different shots (wrist shot and slap shot). It combines some skating with shooting. Have all the players lined up in a corner of the rink. Three players at a time skate forward while carrying pucks. The first player…
3-man weave skating drill – Hockey Resource
The 3-man weave is a good drill to practice in order to learn to head-man the puck. It also emphasizes skating, passing (to both sides), using the entire width of the ice surface and being aware of where other players on your team are located. Three players start lined up on the goal line (one…
