5 Drills Your Hockey Tryout Should Include

5 Tryout Hockey Drills for Young Hockey Players
This post provides coaches with 5 drills that are great to use at tryouts to evaluate the players on the ice.

Below we dive into 5 drills that are great for evaluating your players at tryouts.

This segment will focus on 5 hockey drills that will allow you to look for crucial elements in both the skill and compete level of each player. Remember that a scrimmage is an absolute must for any higher level tryout and that the drills in this post should be used to evaluate specific skills, compete level and should supplement what you see in the scrimmage(s). 

Updated Practice Plan Printing Options: Grid Layout Is Back

Updated Practice Plan Printing Options: Grid Layout Is Back

Updated Practice Plan Printing Options

Hi Hockey Coaches! You might have noticed we have updated the framework for printing practice plans, and after many requests, we added back the Grid Printing Format. 

We made these updates based on our 2022 member survey along with all of the coaches that took time to write in and provide us feedback over the past year. Below we will explain the highlights of the new printing format, suggested formats to try, and how you can provide us feedback.

Top Drills, Games & Practice Plans of 2022

Top Drills, Games & Practice Plans of 2022

Top IHS Content & Updates from 2022

The Team at IHS would like to thank the hockey community for all of your support in 2022. We are so very grateful to all of our members, associations, contributors, partners, and anyone who took the time to reach out to us this past year.

IHS Partners with LiveBarn

LiveBarn Announcement

This new partnership gives IHS a license on all LiveBarn content, which allows IHS members to upload video footage of drills, practices and games from LiveBarn into their IHS Libraries.

This new partnership gives IHS access to LiveBarn content allowing IHS members and LiveBarn subscribers to upload video footage of drills, practices, and games from LiveBarn into their IHS Libraries.

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The Weekly Edge: A Newsletter From IHS

The Weekly Edge

The Weekly Edge: A Newsletter From IHS

IHS is proud to announce the launch of The Weekly Edge - a newsletter that features some of our favorite hockey content from IHS and around the web.

The goal of the newsletter is to bring fresh ideas to your inbox early in the week to help you make practices fun and engaging so you and your players can develop throughout the season.

The Weekly Edge will be sent on Tuesday mornings from September through March. The newsletter contents will vary, but it will include:

7 Drills That Use Face-Off Circles As Boundaries

7 Drills That Use Face-Off Circles As Boundaries

7 Drills That Use Face-Off Circles As Boundaries

Below we give examples of 7 different hockey drills and small area games that utilize face-off circles as boundaries. No cones, boards or barriers are needed! Use the ideas below and create your own drills with our drawing tool!

New Feature: Association Sharing

Association Sharing Image

IHS for Associations has launched a new sharing feature that allows coaches to share their content with the entire association.

IHS for Associations is excited to announce our newest feature: Association Sharing.

With this new update, any piece of content created by a coach in an association can be shared with the entire association with a click of a button. This will allow for easier collaborations across your association and encourage coaches to share what has worked well for them with drills, practices, systems and exercises.

New Feature Alert: Adding Progressions To Your Drawings

IHS is Excited to announce our newest drawing feature: Progressions.

The Importance of Using Progressions

Progressions should be an integral part of your practices and development model.  When using progressions in practice, you can start with a very simple skill or concept that players can feel comfortable executing.  From there you can build on the skill by adding decisions and layers that puts the skill into a game-like scenario. This will allow you to build practices that have a theme and purpose.

Add Progressions