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Practice to game

Practice to game

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Riley Dudar
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Although the shot was a focus, we added it as a backload to working on picking up pucks along the wall. Front loading and backloading is a great to to layer different skills in to increase the cognitive load to be more representative of a game. 

These simple drills can be done before or after practice for Junior and up players who have access to extra ice, and on the ODR for minor Hockey players






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