Practice generating backwards speed with stability and efficiency.

Featured in the Global Skills Showcase Drill Book, this drill from John Kennedy Jr. practices generating backwards speed with stability and efficiency.

Description

• Fs start at the same time with pucks while D is stationary on the red line facing up ice.
• Fs carry the puck into the zone skating inside the circle then delivering a pass to the coach in the adjacent circle. The players continue route and receive a pass back from the coach.
• Once the F touches the blueline, the D can initiate a crossover quick start and continue skating backward to take on the 1 vs. 1.
• Play 1 vs. 1 until the whistle.

Key Points

• Forwards build speed by swinging low into the zone.
• Defence initiate backward momentum using one crossover then using backward shuffles to play forward 1 vs. 1.
• Defence take away the middle of the ice and absorb the speed from the forward.
• Encourage defence to take on the rush going backward the entire time.

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