If you've got a group of kids on the ice for skill development over the spring and summer, it's important to remember that it's not a normal practice. There's no bargaining with these kids when ice time doesn't matter, so you need to keep them engaged and entertained just because.

Jokes aside, spring skills can be a riot if you section out the ice properly and keep kids in motion more often than not. For this practice plan, we're drawing from the skills taught in Brandon Naurato's Pro Shot Selection & Goal Scoring. Naurato's concepts can be taught to any age group. The stations in the middle of this practice give you time to slow things down and be purposeful with every technique. He mentions it in the course. These skills are universal. It's all in how you present them to the players and the progressions you add, or don't add.

We start with some skating, stolen from another course, this time Victor Kraatz's Foundation of Skating, while the goalies get warm. From there, we move into the stations and finish with a chaotic full-ice game at the end. Enjoy!