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Heads Up Breakout Drill
2 on 0, Breakout Drills, Forward Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

Three players are used in this drill, a defense, a center, and a wing.  The players start the drill in their defensive zone positions. On the whistle, the coach or assistant wraps the puck around the boards.  The winger has to get in position to catch the puck and read what the defense is doing.

Defense Transition into 2-0
2 on 0, Defense Drills, Ice Hockey Drills, Transition Drills

This drill emphasizes the position of the defense as they regroup. The defensemen without the puck needs to be in a support position slightly behind their partner. and a little less than half the ice width apart. This way their partner can give them a pass without having to make the dangerous pass all the way across the ice. The defensemen who receives the pass needs to explode up the ice to draw defenders to them and then make the pass to the forwards.

2 on 0 Neutral Zone Swing
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Transition Drills

This drill is designed to work on some transition in the neutral zone.  Defense should focus on good passes.  Poor passes will cause this drill to break down quickly.  Forwards form two lines just inside the face off dots in the neutral zone.  The drill starts with a pass to D1. D1 receives the pass while skating backwards and makes a pass to D2.  D2 needs to receive the pass and transition forwards before making a pass to one of the swinging forwards.

2 - 0 Drive
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Overspeed, Passing Drills

This drill needs to be done at a high tempo.  Both players start at the smae time and skate around the cones.  The coach chooses which  player to pass to.  The player that receives the puck gains the blue line and looks to fire a pass to the other player who is driving to the net.  The player that does not receive the pass has to stay onside and skates as hard as they can to the near post.  Make sure they keep their stick on the ice and expect the pass from the player wi

Swap Drill
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Passing Drills

Start this drill with a line on the face off dot and one against the boards.  The two players pass the puck until they reach the blue line.  At the blue line the inside player gives the puck to the outside player and breaks to the inside expecting a pass from the outside player from the opposite corner.  Once they receive the pass they bring the puck into the zone wide and allow the other player to get into good scoring position in the slot.  Timing is key to this drill.

Chip & Receive
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Passing Drills

This drill helps players work on a neutral zone play that actually happens quite a bit in a game.  The winger gets pressured by the defense at the blue line and is forced to dump the puck in.  If the winger can learn to use some touch and chip the puck into the zone when the center has speed coming through the neutral zone, it can create some scoring chances.  Players in this drill need to pay attention as the second player in line is giving the pass to the player swinging through cent

Neutral Zone Offense Swing
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Neutral Zone, Transition Drills

This is the first drill in a series of drills designed to work on creating some offense out of a neutral zone transition. The drill starts with the coach at center ice and two defense several feet off the red line.  On the whistle, the coach plays a puck softly to the blue line along the boards. The defense come up to the red line and pivot backwards.

Neutral Zone Offense Chip
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Neutral Zone, Transition Drills

This is the first drill in a series of drills designed to work on creating some offense out of a neutral zone transition. The drill starts with the coach at center ice and two defense several feet off the red line.  On the whistle, the coach plays a puck softly to the blue line along the boards. The defense come up to the red line and pivot backwards.

Neutral Zone Offense Double Chip
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Neutral Zone, Transition Drills

This is the first drill in a series of drills designed to work on creating some offense out of a neutral zone transition. The drill starts with the coach at center ice and two defense several feet off the red line.  On the whistle, the coach plays a puck softly to the blue line along the boards. The defense come up to the red line and pivot backwards.

Moose Simple Timing Drill #1
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Transition Drills

One of the hard things to explain to youth hockey players is the importance of timing.  In the neutral zone timing is everything but most forwards are in such a rush,they don't give themselves the best opportunity to receive a pass from their own defense.  In this drill, the focus of F1 is to time their break across center ice so that they are in a good position to receive a pass from D1 at full speed.  The drill starts by D1 skating forwards to about 10 feet of the boards and then tur

2 on 0 Flow
2 on 0, Ice Hockey Drills, Transition Drills

This is a 2 on 0 drill that focuses on passing,catching the pass in stride, moving your feet, and driving to the net.  In this diagram the Blue players start by making a pass to the Green player directly in front of them.  Both Blue players then swing through the neutral zone just in front of the Green players (moving their feet the whole time).  The Green player who receives the first pass, makes a pass to the other Green player, who then makes a cross ice pass to the Blue player at a

Offensive Zone Quick 2 on 0
2 on 0, Half Ice Drills, Ice Hockey Drills, Offensive Zone

This is a quick drill where forwards need to focus on moving their feet and burying the puck.  Split the players up evenly into the two corners.  The coach should place tires or cones out near the top of the circles as shown and gather the pucks just outside the blue line.  On the whistle, the first two forwards skate as hard as they can out around the tires.  One of the forwards picks up the puck set out by the coach.

2 vs 0 Down low
2 on 0, Goalie Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This ice hockey drill is great for forwards and goalies. The forward in the corner starts with the puck and skates inside the goal line. He has three options: 1. Keep the puck and try to stuff it, 2. Keep the puck and when pass back across the slot to the forward who is timing his break to receive the pass in a position to one-time the puck, 3. Fake the wrap around and pass the puck back to the forward before getting to the other side of the net.

2 on 0 Quick Re-Group
2 on 0, Passing Drills, Warm Up Drills

This drill is a fast moving warm up drill that get each player a lot of touches and goalies a lot of shots.  Ptwo lines in the corner, one at the face off dot and one along the boards.  If you have two goalies and enough players you can run it out of both corners at the same time.  A coach or player should also be stationed just inside the far blue line.  The first two players pass the puck down the ice until towards the coach and pass them the puck just after the

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