I was coaching a U12 B2 team that was about half 1st year U12s and understood the basics of a typical youth North-South playing style.  Similarly when the play ultimately ended up being disrupted in the neutral zone, there wasn't much experience in handling the puck in transistion either.  I would typically see after the disruption either a bunch of players convolecing on the puck, or one player recovering while everyone else generally skated slow calling for passes in very predictable locations. After enough games I wanted to introduce a drill that in effect mimiced a regroup, but could build some basic skating movements through the neutral zone to help our players understand supporting the puck carrier. Enter the Infinity Stone Drill !!  Simply put, the forwards line up as if they would in a face-off, and on the whistle, the center wins the puck back to the D, and forwards begin to follow the figure-eight pattern on the ice.

• Per the figure, all forward should enter the pattern so they are all skating the pattern with adequate spacing.  
• What we built up to was the puck would win to the Defense, a D to D pass would be made, then a pass to one of the forwards would occur, and the forward would touch pass back to the D and the rotation would continue. 
• After 3 circuits (hopefully all forwards touched the puck) a second whistle would occur signalling the forward and defensive group should enter the offensive zone against an oppsing set of D.

We emphasized the forwards to always face the puck, therefore incorporating skating transitions, mohawks, backward skating, so the forwards could always face the puck and be open for a pass. While the pattern is initally simple, it works to set up the expectation to skaters that movement is key to a quick transistion, and recovery into the offensive zone.   Please note that while the deptiction does illustrate using the entire neutral zone, it can be arranged for practice plan utilizing half ice arrangements and SAG style drills in one of the end zones.