Small Area Games Hockey Drills

Small Area Games Hockey Drills

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Why should you download Small Area Games Hockey Drills?  Soccer coaches have been using small area games in practice for decades. We need to move our game forward by encouraging coaches to create situations that increase puck touches, simulate game situations, celebrate the chaos of a real game, and make great use of a small portion of the ice. Download a FREE eBook Sample of Small Area Games.  Did you like what you saw in the sample package? Then get started right now and purchase the full package.

I highly recommend the The Complete Season, Small Area Games, and Hockey Goalie Drills for Teams for all youth hockey coaches. Boe and Nate Leslie have created a unique system of coach and player mentorship. I’ve enjoyed watching them develop their coaching business with the same professionalism and passion they brought to the game as players.” Andy Murray, 2011 IIHF Hall of Fame Inductee, 2009 NHL Jack Adams Coach of the Year Finalist, Head Coach of Western Michigan University.

Using Small Area Games Hockey Drills to plan practice will force players out of their comfort zone, reduce decision making time, and increase the speed of execution in exciting and fun battle drills. Full ice drills have merit in practice. However much of a youth hockey practice should be spent in small zone skill stations like in The Complete Season, our first eBook and App, and teaching through small area competition.
The opportunities in small areas to teach situation play, to manage controlled chaos, and to learn to compete are irreplaceable. It’s the most efficient and effective way to drive competition and skill development forward at any level of hockey. When we ask a player to tell us his or her favourite part of practice, 95% say ‘the games we played.’ Let your players learn, compete, and challenge each other.

Young players need to make a few hundred passes per practice. This goal is unrealistic using only full ice drills. ‘Small Area Games’ is a great resource that makes this goal achievable. Goalies face more shots and second scoring chances, track pucks, and focus on post save recovery. Players thrive in competition.” Glen Hanlon, General Manager Vancouver Giants, WHL.  Former NHL goalie and NHL coach

*Curriculum by Boe Leslie of Northern Roots Hockey Development. Game principles and tactics edited by Nate Leslie