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Backcheck Drills

Backcheck Flow Drill
Backcheck Drills, Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills, Shooting Drills

 This drill is a good way to condition your players without putting the pucks away and skating lines.  It has an element of competition which forces players to work hard the entire drill.  This drill can also be run out of all four corners depending on how many players are involved.  To set up, divide the players up evenly into the four corners and have a bunch of pucks in each corner. Place one player at the top of the circles with a puck (P1).  This is only to start the drill because after the first rep P2 becomes P1.

1 on 0 with Backchecker
Backcheck Drills, Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

This ice hockey drill is good for straight away speed and it is a great aneorobic workout. It is also emphasizes stopping and backchecking. The drill starts as the first two players skate full speed down the ice on a 1 on 0 and shoot with their feet moving. After the shot they stop, and backcheck against the next player in line who starts when the shot is taken.

Sabres Defense Drill
2 on 2, Backcheck Drills, Defense Drills, Defensive Zone, Ice Hockey Drills

This drill focuses on defenssive zone coverage and backchecking. The drill starts with a 1 on 1 battle in front of the net ( F1 vs.

Breakout Backcheck Drill
Backcheck Drills, Breakout Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

On the first whistle, D1 carries the puck around the net and makies a breakout pass to F1. BK starts on their knees at the inside hash marks and waits for the second whistle.  On the second whistle, BK backchecks against F1.When F1 receives the breakout pass from D1 they make another pass to D2 at center ice.  BK has to try and make the return pass back to F1 as dificcult as possible. If F1 is able to get the return pass from D2 then they can go in and take a shot. 

2 on 1 with Backchecker
2 on 1, Backcheck Drills, Forward Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

The focus of this drill is to develop good habits when going to the net and backchecking.  The forwards need to focus on moving their feet, skating hard to the net, and stopping at the net.  The drill starts on the whistle.  D1 skates up to the red line and pivots backwards.  F1 & F2 wait till D1 hits the red line then swing out along the blue line and then face up the ice to receive a pass from the coach.  The coach will make a pass to either F1 or F2.  F3 is the ba

Double Pass Backcheck
Backcheck Drills, Conditioning Drills, Ice Hockey Drills

To set up this drill, place two lines of players on opposite blue lines.  On the whistle, P1 makes a pass to the yellow coach and skates to the middle of the ice to receive the pass back from the coach.  At center ice P1 makes another give & go with P2 and skates in for a shot from the high slot.  After the shot, P1 stops and backchecks against P2.  P2, after making the pass back to P1, starts the same thing by making a pass to the orange coach.

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