Building A Development Plan for your U11 Team
The season is just starting, minor hockey teams are scrambling for coaches so there teams can get rolling. Or you live in a small town and maybe there’s just a couple dads available to coach. Where do you start? Which drills are important for your age group? I’ve gone through the process of being completely lost and spending hours searching and experimenting to find the most effective drills. You will have seen lots of these drills in other site or locations, I have just complied them into one file with consistent colours and drawings.
The Coaches Site is an infinite source of awesome knowledge from high level coaches. but how does a coach put it all together? Hopefully this resource provides a foundation to guide coaches through the season. There will be lots of elements from articles on this site!
The Development Plant includes sections on
- Season Guide
- Development Plan
- Pre-Game Warm-up
- Gaolie Drills
- Skills Warm-up
- Elite Habit Drills
- Power Skating Drills
- Shooting
- Defense Gap Drills
- Puck Protection and Battle Drills
- Angling
- Small Area Games
- Full Ice Drills
How I Structure Practice
1.Elite Habits/Goalie training – 13 Minutes
2. Skills (Shooting Drill) 10 Minutes
3. 2 on 1 Drills – 10 minutes
4. Checking, Battles, 1 on 1 - 13 Minute
5. Small Area Scrimmage - 13 Minutes
Power Skating – Ideal Allocate 2 Practices per Month, Line-up Goalie Coach as Well
Goalie Training
The forgotten element of youth hockey! There are lots of simple skating drills for goalies which are crucial to their ability to move within their crease.
Elite Habits
Checkout the video from Jimmy Mullin about elite habits. The focus with these drills is game awareness and intelligence. Passing, Rondos, keep away drills. No cookie drills, we keep the goalie out of these drills.
Skills
Fun passing and shooting drills.
2 on 1's/Gap Control
Give Defense lots of opportunity to skate backwards.
Angling, 1 on 1’s, battles
60% of the game is along the boards and possession is the name of the game.
Small Area Scrimmage
A fun game like scenario to finish off the practice.
