I've been going pretty hard on skating skills with the two teams I coach. One issue I discovered in the last week of September is that I was trying too much. Too many new concepts being introduced, too many key points, too many descriptions. I moved on from simple skating skills skills too quickly and started in on small area passing and stickhandling games, and I was shocked how resistant the group was. 

So resistant, in fact, that one of the captains said "yeah Kelvin, we all kinda thought we were getting skills when we were out with you. That's what we were excited for."

Message received. But I still want to cover more than one skill at a time. The game is dynamic. 

So in this plan I'm working specifically on zone entries, but using skill drills drom Daniel Broberg's presentation at TCS Live '25. The key for me is to go back and forth from inside to outside edge, and the players won't even know they're working on zone entries. It's all about skill development, right?