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Curriculum

Small area games help produce passionate, creative, skilled, teachable, and competitive players.  We believe in small area games so much we created our most recent iOS App, ‘Hockey Drills 2: Small Area Games.’  www.lgsports.ca/hockey-drills-app/.  This curriculum guides or battle drill and practice planning throughout the year.  We build offensive skills, decision making, defensive battling habits, game like situations, and 2nd and 3rd shot opportunities for goalies.

Small Area Games Clinic Philosophy

Soccer coaches have been using ‘small sided games’ in practice for decades. We need to move our game forward by encouraging coaches to use more small area games.  These battle drills increase puck touches and simulate game situations.  They embrace the chaos of a real game, and make great use of a small portion of the ice.

Using ‘Hockey Drills 2: Small Area Games’ to plan practice will force players out of their comfort zone, reduce decision making time, and increase the speed of execution. The opportunities in small area games to teach situational play, to manage controlled chaos, and to learn to compete are irreplaceable. Using small area games is 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.