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Posted on Monday, April 22nd, 2013 in News and Website Updates
Ice Hockey Systems, Inc. is excited to announce its acquisition of www.soccerchalktalk.com. Soccer Chalk Talk is one of the leading online resources in the soccer community. With over 130 animated soccer drills, the site, much like...
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Posted on Friday, April 12th, 2013 in Blog entrys
“Yup, he’s lost the room! ...they just aren’t listening to him anymore...”. As students of the game we have all heard these phrases describing a situation where a coach and his struggling team are failing to communicate. Often these coaches, who once held their player’s attention and focus with every word, no...
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Posted on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 in Ice Hockey Drills
This drill is focused on the important skills used in a typical overload power play situation. It is also a good shooting drill that can be used in half-ice situations. To set up place a line of defense at the blue line along the boards and one line of forwards in the corner. The drill starts by F1 passing the puck to the defense and following the pass up the wall...
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Posted on Friday, March 15th, 2013 in Ice Hockey Drills
This is a great shooting drill with a lot of good skill elements for defense, forwards, and goalies. It is also a useful drill for half ice situations. To set up place a line of defense in the middle of the ice at the blue line and a line of forwards at each face off dot as shown in the diagram.
The drill starts with D1 taking a shot from the point...
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Posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2013 in Ice Hockey Drills
This is a warm up shooting drill that involves quick one-touch passing and shots from the outside lanes. It can be a good one for pre-game warm ups or half-ice sessions.
To set up the drill divide the players into two lines at about the top of the circles along the wall. Pucks should be in both lines. Pne player will start the drill at the top...
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Posted on Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 in Ice Hockey Systems
This animation displays how to execute a 5 on 3 penalty kill. In this situation the power play is set up in a box-in-one formation. The power play will move the puck between the top two players and try to generate a clear shot with their player in front. The power play's second objective is to move the puck down low and take advantage of the 3 on 2...
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Posted on Saturday, January 12th, 2013 in Ice Hockey Drills
This is a great warm up shooting drill that works well for situations where you have a lot of players on the ice or half ice practices. The goalies will see a lot of shots from all the angles. The players will go through a series of three movements that have different footwork, short passes, and puck handing skills. Each line will do the same movement for a...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 19th, 2012 in Ice Hockey Drills
This warm up drill gets four players involved at one time, includes a couple passes, and shots on the goalies from different angles. Set up the drill as shown in the diagram with pucks at all four lines. On the whistle the the first player from each line along the boards (P1) takes off down the wall and receives a pass from the first player on the other...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 in Ice Hockey Drills
This is a drill that focuses on quick give and gos down low in the offensive zone. Set up one line of players outside the blue line, the pucks in one corner, and a passer or coach in the corner with the pucks. The first player (P1) will start in the high slot facing the pucks. On the whistle, the player skates backwards for a few strides while the...
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Posted on Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 in Ice Hockey Drills
Here is a follow up to the previous Royal Puck Protection Drill and is a good one to use in the same practice session. The key focus of this hockey drill is on protecting the puck, moving the feet, and in this variation moving out from below the goal line for a scoring opportunity.
To set up the drill form two lines just off to the side of the crease and a...
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