1 on 1 Swedish Overspeed Drill

In this drill, we develop passing, skating, gap control, and a number of other skills. This drill can also be developed into a regroup drill (see Option 2)

3 on 0, 3 on 1, 3 on 2 Drill

A great drill for imitating odd-man rush scenarios, and is also GREAT conditioning for the forwards.

3 on 3 "D" Support

This small area game drill give players a chance to work on quick transitions, give and go passes and set-ups, and swinging to become a passing option.

Anaheim 2 on 1 Drill

Awesome drill from the Scott Fukami Drill Collections. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Bednar Escape Race

This one is great for full-speed agility skating, and works power turns and pivots, forward and backward.

Burkart 2 on 2 Deflection

My good buddy, and assistant coach, Josh Burkart showed this one to me a couple of years ago. It's a solid drill that has a pretty quick rotation, so not much standing around once your players pick up the flow of it.

Burkart Regroup Drill

This is a great little hockey regroup drill that can be converted into a 1 on 1 as your players progress.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Czech Race

This one is a great, full-speed sprint race. Lots of intensity, and good opportunity for some physical contact.

D to D Stretch Pass

Stretch passes, Regroups, and full-ice Timing drills are where I spend my time in the rare occasion I get a full-ice practice. Here's a great stretch pass drill to add to your library.

Drive Drill Race

The Drive Drill Race is a great hockey angling drill that can be used at any age or skill level.

Give and Go 1 on 1

This is another drill I picked up from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Man in the Box Drill

This is another one of my favorite 1 on 1 hockey drills. The set-up is very simple, but there are SO MANY important concepts that can be worked on... it is VERY effective!

Master the 2v2 Continuous Backcheck Drill: Step-by-Step Guide

Put this high intensity backchecking drill to work for your hockey players!

Michigan Tech 1 on 1 Drill

This is one of my favorite 1 on 1 drills because you can use it to work on so many different skills. Make sure your forwards swing fairly deep into the zone to receive the breakout pass.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Pressure v. Contain 1 on 1

Pressure or contain; move quickly toward the opponent if he is not in control of the puck (pressure); - move more slowly toward the opponent if he is in perfect control of the puck (contain); - knees bent.

Slovakian 3-Pass and Shot Drill

Here’s a solid drill from my Slovakian friend Jan Bednar. He sends me awesome drills from time to time, and they’re always exactly my style! This drill has two variations, one ends in a 1 on 0, and the other ends in a 1 on 1.

Stop & Start Angling

I used this drill last week with a group of Mites and Squirts in a local clinic here in Salt Lake City. It was a progression from some of the skills we had been working on earlier in the session. This drill combines stops and starts, angling, and drive skating.

Teaching Defense to 7-Year-Olds

Most 7-year-olds aren't capable of skating backwards well enough to play a proper 1 on 1. But there are still 1 on 1s in games. So what do you do? Here's my strategy.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Advanced Hockey Breakout Progression

This is a highly effective breakout progression. There are endless ways to change it up to work on different game situations, and it involves many recurring passing patterns.

Breakout, Regroup, Regroup, Attack Drill

This drill is extremely versatile, and can be used to work on a number of different game situations. After your team gets good at it, try throwing in a forechecker (or two).

Controlled Skating Breakout Drill

Although this drill loosely mimics a breakout drill, the real purpose behind this one is to introduce Timing and Support concepts to youngsters. Players must time their skating to arrive at the designated receiving zones on time for a possible pass.

Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill

The Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill is a great drill to get everybody moving. It incorporates a little bit of everything, and even involves the goalies in the play.

Hockey Breakout Drill

Many hockey situations occur in patterns. This simple hockey breakout drill breaks down these patterns into their simplest form, then puts them back together in sequence to mimic a game situation.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Perpetual Breakout Drill

The Perpetual Breakout is a great drill to develop hockey breakout abilities in a high-tempo, flow and timing setting.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

1 on 1 Big Arc Backchecking

This is a simple drill, with a simple setup, that can be used to address a lot of different pieces of the game, including Lane Control, Body Positioning, and One Timer Shots on both Proper and Off Wings.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

Czech Race

This one is a great, full-speed sprint race. Lots of intensity, and good opportunity for some physical contact.

Drive Drill Race

The Drive Drill Race is a great hockey angling drill that can be used at any age or skill level.

Figure 8 Angling Drill

As you progress into hockey body checking drills, to stress that the purpose of body checking in hockey is to separate the man from the puck.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill

The Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill works really well to teach proper angling technique for F1 & F2 on the PK forecheck.

Pressure v. Contain 1 on 1

Pressure or contain; move quickly toward the opponent if he is not in control of the puck (pressure); - move more slowly toward the opponent if he is in perfect control of the puck (contain); - knees bent.

Stop & Start Angling

I used this drill last week with a group of Mites and Squirts in a local clinic here in Salt Lake City. It was a progression from some of the skills we had been working on earlier in the session. This drill combines stops and starts, angling, and drive skating.

5-Card Skating Drill

5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in.

Half-Ice Bednár Conditioning Drill

Here's a Fantastic Half-Ice Conditioning Drill from Our Friend, Ján Bednár

Michigan Mile - Hockey Conditioning Drill

This drill features short, explosive bursts of speed, and can be done in a variety of ways. It also offers an optimal 3:1 rest-to-work ratio, which is perfect for hockey players.

Perpetual Backcheck Drill

The Perpetual Backcheck Drill is a great competition drill to keep players motivated and having fun while working on their conditioning. I use this one quite often with my own teams.

5-Card Skating Drill

5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

1 on 1 Big Arc Backchecking

This is a simple drill, with a simple setup, that can be used to address a lot of different pieces of the game, including Lane Control, Body Positioning, and One Timer Shots on both Proper and Off Wings.

5-Card Skating Drill

5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in.

Advanced Hockey Breakout Progression

This is a highly effective breakout progression. There are endless ways to change it up to work on different game situations, and it involves many recurring passing patterns.

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill

The Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill is a great drill to get everybody moving. It incorporates a little bit of everything, and even involves the goalies in the play.

Hockey Breakout Drill

Many hockey situations occur in patterns. This simple hockey breakout drill breaks down these patterns into their simplest form, then puts them back together in sequence to mimic a game situation.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Perpetual Breakout Drill

The Perpetual Breakout is a great drill to develop hockey breakout abilities in a high-tempo, flow and timing setting.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

Pressure v. Contain 1 on 1

Pressure or contain; move quickly toward the opponent if he is not in control of the puck (pressure); - move more slowly toward the opponent if he is in perfect control of the puck (contain); - knees bent.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

Face-off Sequence

This Face-Off Sequence is a great way to nail down your face-off set-ups, no matter which zone you're in.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill

The Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill works really well to teach proper angling technique for F1 & F2 on the PK forecheck.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

6 Puck Shootout

The 6 Puck Shootout is a fun drill that works on breakaways. Since it's a race, players run through at full speed, and have more pressure than in typical shootout drills. I love slotting this one in at the end of practice!

Musical Pucks

Working on crossovers can be hard and frustrating for many young hockey players. I've found that turning skill development drills into shooting drills or games can make them a lot more fun and motivating to work on. Musical Pucks is a small area game that demonstrates this tactic well.

QuickStickz Review

QuickStickz is an innovative new way to work on your stickhandling abilities off the ice, and it’s a lot of fun too!

11 Visual Targets for Hockey Goalies

Angles are, arguably, the most important part of a goaltender's game. If you cannot manage your angles appropriately, it will be more difficult to make the simple saves.

3 Cone Rebound Drill

The 3 Cone Rebound Drill will work on stopping the puck from outside shots, rebound control, recovering, covering the puck, handling rebounds and more.

3 Shooter, Rebound and Recovery

This is a great, simple, goalie drill. It allows your shooters to work on their shots while the goalie works on his/her movement around the crease, angles and rebound recovery.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Goalie Drills at Weiss Tech Hockey!!

Great warm-up drill for goalies. I recommend having the goalies do this while the forwards and defensemen are doing the Circle Agility Drill.

Crease Movement #1

Don’t let your goalies try to do this drill too fast to maintain proper form. Make sure they are getting in the proper Post Knee Up and doing the proper Butterfly Slide.

HockeyVision Training Pucks

HockeyVision Training Pucks are a great way to train yourself to rely less and less on seeing the puck, which will then allow you to stickhandle with your head up, enabling you to see more of the play.

Post Awareness Drill

This post awareness drill offers lots of possibilities. If you want to progress past just taking shots on this drill, give the players the option to carry the puck across the net/zone before they shoot.

Post-Knee-Up Drill

The Post knee up save is a controversial yet solid selection. It is controversial because most goalies do not always use it in the correct situations. This particular drill will work on the Post Knee up as well as work on teaching the goaltender to read and react and utilize the save in the correct situation.

Shuffle T-Pass

This drill works on positioning, proper rotation when moving around your crease, proper recovery from a butterfly, playing the puck, and crease awareness.

The Star Drill

The star drill is a great drill to teach young goalies the art of moving around the crease! If done correctly, this drill will generate create good habits moving around the crease, and the goalies will become more "Crease Aware" (knowing where they are in their crease).

Unbelievable Goalie Slide Board

Every now and then I come across a hockey training product that just makes me go “wow!” That’s what happened when I first saw the X-Goalie Crease Slideboard

11 Visual Targets for Hockey Goalies

Angles are, arguably, the most important part of a goaltender's game. If you cannot manage your angles appropriately, it will be more difficult to make the simple saves.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Goalie Drills at Weiss Tech Hockey!!

Great warm-up drill for goalies. I recommend having the goalies do this while the forwards and defensemen are doing the Circle Agility Drill.

Bednár Skating Warm-up Drill

Make sure to have players execute at full speed, while maintaining good puck control, and staying low on the pivots.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

Finnish Half-Ice Drill

Fantastic drill that is very customizable––you can create multiple variations to fit lots of different game situations.

Give and Go Corner Drill

This is an awesome drill for the really young players. It works on a number of key skill elements such as giving and receiving passes, skating to a receiving zone, power turns with the puck, and shots.

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

Long/Short Passing

This drill should be executed at a quick pace, so whistle timing is very important here. Have your players focus on executing hard, accurate, stick-to-stick passes––especially on the cross-ice pass.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Post-Knee-Up Drill

The Post knee up save is a controversial yet solid selection. It is controversial because most goalies do not always use it in the correct situations. This particular drill will work on the Post Knee up as well as work on teaching the goaltender to read and react and utilize the save in the correct situation.

Shuffle T-Pass

This drill works on positioning, proper rotation when moving around your crease, proper recovery from a butterfly, playing the puck, and crease awareness.

Slovakian Agility Race

Here's another fantastic drill from Ján Bednár, the "Slovakian Agility Race."

Window Drill

I love the Window Drill for a few reasons: It's easy to set up, easy to execute, you can run it half ice, and it's extremely effective for working on hockey crossovers!

"Precision" Practices, and When to Use Them

Here's a quick look over my shoulder for a practice I ran, as a guest coach, this past Saturday.

"S" Warm-up Drill

This is a great little high-speed hockey warm-up drill that incorporates many different elements of the game, including skating, passing, and shooting.

"Snake" Shooting Drill

This could be one of the most basic hockey shooting drills out there… but it is also one of the most effective because of the concepts that can be applied.

1 on 0 Headman Drill

I picked up this drill from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

1 on 1 Big Arc Backchecking

This is a simple drill, with a simple setup, that can be used to address a lot of different pieces of the game, including Lane Control, Body Positioning, and One Timer Shots on both Proper and Off Wings.

1 on 1 Swedish Overspeed Drill

In this drill, we develop passing, skating, gap control, and a number of other skills. This drill can also be developed into a regroup drill (see Option 2)

11 Visual Targets for Hockey Goalies

Angles are, arguably, the most important part of a goaltender's game. If you cannot manage your angles appropriately, it will be more difficult to make the simple saves.

3 Cone Rebound Drill

The 3 Cone Rebound Drill will work on stopping the puck from outside shots, rebound control, recovering, covering the puck, handling rebounds and more.

3 Man 3 Zone Timing Drill

This is a variation on an old classic, the 3 Zone Timing Drill, which is one of my all-time favorites!

3 Man Weave

Use the 3 Man Weave to teach and re-enforce key concepts like timing, support, and offensive zone triangulation. As skill progresses, increase the demand on the players.

3 Pass and Shot Drill

I like to use this one as a warm-up drill, but it can also be used to develop passing and timing concepts, or to work on one-touch passes or shooting.

3 Shooter, Rebound and Recovery

This is a great, simple, goalie drill. It allows your shooters to work on their shots while the goalie works on his/her movement around the crease, angles and rebound recovery.

3 Shot Hockey Warm-Up Drill

This is a great drill to get players' legs going at the beginning of practice. It's high tempo, and combines agility skating, with puck control, and shooting in motion.

3-Zone Timing Drill

This is a "classic" flow drill with lots of passing, timing, and shooting.

4 Blueline Warm-up

The 4 Blueline Warm-up is part of the Scott Fukami drill collections available through DrillDraw. This drill has 5 phases, or sequences. All are fantastic!

4-Pass Hockey Warm-Up Drill

Here's a fast-paced warm-up drill that incorporates skating, passing, and shooting. Plus it works multiple angles for the goalies.

5 Pass One Touch

Here's a fantastic passing drill that I picked up from Larry Huras over at Hockey Coach Vision.

5-Card Skating Drill

5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

Anaheim 2 on 1 Drill

Awesome drill from the Scott Fukami Drill Collections. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Attack Triangle Sequence

The Attack Triangle Sequence is one of my favorite drills to begin teaching basic attack structure to youngsters

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Goalie Drills at Weiss Tech Hockey!!

Great warm-up drill for goalies. I recommend having the goalies do this while the forwards and defensemen are doing the Circle Agility Drill.

Bednar Escape Race

This one is great for full-speed agility skating, and works power turns and pivots, forward and backward.

Bednár Skating Warm-up Drill

Make sure to have players execute at full speed, while maintaining good puck control, and staying low on the pivots.

Boost Foot Speed with this Great Hockey Agility Drill

Here is one of my favorite on-ice agility drills. I like it because it develops quick feet while skating forward, backward, as well as side-to-side.

Burkart 2 on 2 Deflection

My good buddy, and assistant coach, Josh Burkart showed this one to me a couple of years ago. It's a solid drill that has a pretty quick rotation, so not much standing around once your players pick up the flow of it.

Burkart Regroup Drill

This is a great little hockey regroup drill that can be converted into a 1 on 1 as your players progress.

Butterfly Passing Drill

Butterfly Passing is a great drill to work on passing fundamentals with youngsters, and to iron out technical "wrinkles" in more experienced players.

C-Pass Give and Go Drill

The C-Pass Give and Go is an awesome drill to get your players moving. It is high tempo, and works a lot on giving and receiving passes in motion.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Chaos Stickhandling Drill

The Chaos Drill is a simple and effective hockey stickhandling drill that is sure to get your team flying!

Circle Passing: 5 & 6-Man Versions

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Controlled Skating Breakout Drill

Although this drill loosely mimics a breakout drill, the real purpose behind this one is to introduce Timing and Support concepts to youngsters. Players must time their skating to arrive at the designated receiving zones on time for a possible pass.

Crease Movement #1

Don’t let your goalies try to do this drill too fast to maintain proper form. Make sure they are getting in the proper Post Knee Up and doing the proper Butterfly Slide.

Cross-Ice 3 Pass & Shot Drill

Here's an awesome drill I came up with to add a little "flow" in a station setting.

Cycle Give and Go Drill

The Cycle Give and Go Drill is an awesome way to introduce cycling concepts, and offensive attack patterns.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

Czech Race

This one is a great, full-speed sprint race. Lots of intensity, and good opportunity for some physical contact.

D to D Stretch Pass

Stretch passes, Regroups, and full-ice Timing drills are where I spend my time in the rare occasion I get a full-ice practice. Here's a great stretch pass drill to add to your library.

Dangle Glove Hockey Stickhandling Aid

Every once in a while, a product comes along that just "makes sense." The Dangle Glove is one of them.

Double Bank Pass Drill

The Double Bank Pass Drill is quick paced, and a lot of fun. This is one you should definitely try out on the ice, as the diagram doesn't always do it justice

Fast Hands Review

I recently had the chance to try out the Fast Hands hockey stickhandling training aid. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces of stickhandling equipment of all time!

Figure 8 Angling Drill

As you progress into hockey body checking drills, to stress that the purpose of body checking in hockey is to separate the man from the puck.

Figure 8 Shooting and Deflection

Here's a quick and effective shooting drill that incorporates shots from the points, and deflections in front of the net.

Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill

The Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill is a great drill to get everybody moving. It incorporates a little bit of everything, and even involves the goalies in the play.

Full Ice 3 Pass and Shot Drill

With the right group of players (and the proper number of players), this can be a very fun and effective drill.

Give and Go 1 on 1

This is another drill I picked up from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Give and Go Corner Drill

This is an awesome drill for the really young players. It works on a number of key skill elements such as giving and receiving passes, skating to a receiving zone, power turns with the puck, and shots.

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

Half-Ice Bednár Conditioning Drill

Here's a Fantastic Half-Ice Conditioning Drill from Our Friend, Ján Bednár

Hockey Shooting Targets: Sniper's Edge

This set-up works really well in neighborhood or indoor settings, where you don’t want errant pucks damaging houses, windows, or other valuable items. The Sniper’s Edge is a tarp, so everything hits with a dead bounce and drops straight down.

Hockey Warm-Up Drill: High-Low Shooting

This drill is quick-paced, and incorporates skating, stickhandling, and shooting in stride. It's also great for goalies as it gets them moving side-to-side.

HockeyVision Training Pucks

HockeyVision Training Pucks are a great way to train yourself to rely less and less on seeing the puck, which will then allow you to stickhandle with your head up, enabling you to see more of the play.

Hymas Square Drill

This is a great, quick-paced, heads up passing drill.

Inside Mohawk

The Mohawk can be used while shooting, deking, pivoting, slipping checks... the options are limitless. Players who become proficient with the mohawk will find themselves performing it instinctively in games.

Introduce Important Timing Tactics with the Center Lag Timing Drill

Teach your players to pass to designated receiving areas, not necessarily to players. The responsibility lies with the receiver to make the play work.

Leafs Warm-Up Drill

This is a fun one that touches on quite a few different skills, including backward skating, pivots, passing, drive skating, and shooting.

Michigan Mile - Hockey Conditioning Drill

This drill features short, explosive bursts of speed, and can be done in a variety of ways. It also offers an optimal 3:1 rest-to-work ratio, which is perfect for hockey players.

Mohawk Agility Drill

The Mohawk Agility Drill can be used with cones, sticks, "Attack Triangles," SweetHands, or any other hockey obstacle. More creative obstacles produce more creative players in this drill.

Mohawk Square Drill

The Mohawk Square Drill, and the Full-Ice Snake Drill are two phenomenal ways to work on inside mohawks with your team.

Musical Pucks

Working on crossovers can be hard and frustrating for many young hockey players. I've found that turning skill development drills into shooting drills or games can make them a lot more fun and motivating to work on. Musical Pucks is a small area game that demonstrates this tactic well.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

One-Touch Timing

This is a fantastic drill to introduce passing and timing concepts. It can be used as a precursor to the 3-Zone Timing Drill.

Overspeed Agility Drill

This drill works foot speed, agility, overspeed training, and puck control. Start with no pucks. As your players progress, add a puck, then start making them do 5 push-ups for each time they lose the puck.

Passing Medley

I designed the Passing Medley as a drill to work on multiple types of passes, both standing still, and in motion.

Passing: Extreme Passing Kit

I designed the Passing Medley as a drill to work on multiple types of passes, both standing still, and in motion.

Perpetual Backcheck Drill

The Perpetual Backcheck Drill is a great competition drill to keep players motivated and having fun while working on their conditioning. I use this one quite often with my own teams.

Perpetual Breakout Drill

The Perpetual Breakout is a great drill to develop hockey breakout abilities in a high-tempo, flow and timing setting.

Perpetual Cycle

One of my favorite cycling drills. I recommend starting simple, teaching the cycling fundamentals, then progressing up to this one.

Perpetual Power Turn and Passing Drill

Use this drill to work on power turns, passing, and certain timing and support concepts with your youngsters.

Post Awareness Drill

This post awareness drill offers lots of possibilities. If you want to progress past just taking shots on this drill, give the players the option to carry the puck across the net/zone before they shoot.

Post-Knee-Up Drill

The Post knee up save is a controversial yet solid selection. It is controversial because most goalies do not always use it in the correct situations. This particular drill will work on the Post Knee up as well as work on teaching the goaltender to read and react and utilize the save in the correct situation.

Power Turn Give & Go

Awesome drill for working on controlling the puck through a power turn. After going through simulated traffic, players explode out for a give & go pass with coach.

Power Turn Progression

This is the progression I use when developing power turns with my players. Remember, to work on skill development, you must 1. Show the Skill, 2. Develop the Skill, 3. Apply the Skill.

QuickStickz Review

QuickStickz is an innovative new way to work on your stickhandling abilities off the ice, and it’s a lot of fun too!

Rick O'Shay Hockey Targeting System

The Rick O’Shay is a great hockey targeting system that gives an alternative perspective to the conventional “Shooter Tutor” style, roll-up canvases.

Serpentine Drill

The Serpentine Drill is a great progressional drill if you've been working on power turns. This drill develops power turns with the puck, and can incorporate some passing and shooting as well.

Shooting: My Favorite Off-ice Shooting Drill

In this video, my good friend Brett Fuller and I play a high-stakes game of P.I.G., to make it a little more interesting, the loser has to ride the bull (Happy Gilmore style) on camera. With so much on the line, neither of us wanted to lose!

Shuffle T-Pass

This drill works on positioning, proper rotation when moving around your crease, proper recovery from a butterfly, playing the puck, and crease awareness.

Skating: PowerSlide Hockey Slide Board

Slovakian 3-Pass and Shot Drill

Here’s a solid drill from my Slovakian friend Jan Bednar. He sends me awesome drills from time to time, and they’re always exactly my style! This drill has two variations, one ends in a 1 on 0, and the other ends in a 1 on 1.

Slovakian Agility Race

Here's another fantastic drill from Ján Bednár, the "Slovakian Agility Race."

Spice 2 Shot Warm-Up Drill

Great warm-up drill that incorporates skating, passing, and shooting.

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Stickhandling: Attack Triangle

Stickhandling: Green Biscuit Review

Stickhandling: SmartHockey Ball Review

Stickhandling: Swedish Wooden Ball Review

Stickhandling: SweetHands

Swedish 5-Pass & Shot

The Swedish 5-Pass & Shot drill is a great way to work on some of the passing and skating patterns used in regroups. This is a more advanced drill, so make sure you have the right group for it before giving it a try.

Synchronized Passing Drill: Improve Full-Speed Passing Skills Without Breaking Stride

Synchronized Passing is a simple, yet highly effective, hockey passing drill that will help players to develop their ability to maintain proper hockey passing technique while in motion.

The Star Drill

The star drill is a great drill to teach young goalies the art of moving around the crease! If done correctly, this drill will generate create good habits moving around the crease, and the goalies will become more "Crease Aware" (knowing where they are in their crease).

Timed Delay Drill

Use the Timed Delay Drill to introduce basic passing and timing concepts, as well as offensive attack and delay tactics

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Unbelievable Goalie Slide Board

Every now and then I come across a hockey training product that just makes me go “wow!” That’s what happened when I first saw the X-Goalie Crease Slideboard

Warm-up Pass Exchange

Incorporates a lot of different elements such as puckhandling, forward skating, backward skating, pivots, crossovers, passing, and shooting.

Weiss Tech Coaching Clinics: On-Ice Skill Development in Action

This video shows you what this on-ice skill development will look like in action, with some actual practice footage.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

Window Drill

I love the Window Drill for a few reasons: It's easy to set up, easy to execute, you can run it half ice, and it's extremely effective for working on hockey crossovers!

Wiseman Drill

The "Wiseman Drill," named after one of my old coaches, is a great passing and timing drill (one of my favorites!). This drill incorporates many game simulation concepts such as one-touch passes, timing, support, offensive attack, and odd-man rushes.

X-Deviator Hockey Stickhandling Aid

I’m a strong believer that players who don’t take advantage of off-ice training time are leaving precious skill development on the table.

X-Passer Hockey Passing Rebounder

X-Tiles Flooring System

ZigZag Touch Pass - Quarter Ice

Great alternative to the Circle Passing Drill if you're working in a condensed-space setting.

11 Visual Targets for Hockey Goalies

Angles are, arguably, the most important part of a goaltender's game. If you cannot manage your angles appropriately, it will be more difficult to make the simple saves.

6 Puck Shootout

The 6 Puck Shootout is a fun drill that works on breakaways. Since it's a race, players run through at full speed, and have more pressure than in typical shootout drills. I love slotting this one in at the end of practice!

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Goalie Drills at Weiss Tech Hockey!!

Great warm-up drill for goalies. I recommend having the goalies do this while the forwards and defensemen are doing the Circle Agility Drill.

Bednár Skating Warm-up Drill

Make sure to have players execute at full speed, while maintaining good puck control, and staying low on the pivots.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

Finnish Half-Ice Drill

Fantastic drill that is very customizable––you can create multiple variations to fit lots of different game situations.

Give and Go Corner Drill

This is an awesome drill for the really young players. It works on a number of key skill elements such as giving and receiving passes, skating to a receiving zone, power turns with the puck, and shots.

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

Long/Short Passing

This drill should be executed at a quick pace, so whistle timing is very important here. Have your players focus on executing hard, accurate, stick-to-stick passes––especially on the cross-ice pass.

Musical Pucks

Working on crossovers can be hard and frustrating for many young hockey players. I've found that turning skill development drills into shooting drills or games can make them a lot more fun and motivating to work on. Musical Pucks is a small area game that demonstrates this tactic well.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Post-Knee-Up Drill

The Post knee up save is a controversial yet solid selection. It is controversial because most goalies do not always use it in the correct situations. This particular drill will work on the Post Knee up as well as work on teaching the goaltender to read and react and utilize the save in the correct situation.

QuickStickz Review

QuickStickz is an innovative new way to work on your stickhandling abilities off the ice, and it’s a lot of fun too!

Shuffle T-Pass

This drill works on positioning, proper rotation when moving around your crease, proper recovery from a butterfly, playing the puck, and crease awareness.

Slovakian Agility Race

Here's another fantastic drill from Ján Bednár, the "Slovakian Agility Race."

Window Drill

I love the Window Drill for a few reasons: It's easy to set up, easy to execute, you can run it half ice, and it's extremely effective for working on hockey crossovers!

"S" Warm-up Drill

This is a great little high-speed hockey warm-up drill that incorporates many different elements of the game, including skating, passing, and shooting.

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Swedish 5-Pass & Shot

The Swedish 5-Pass & Shot drill is a great way to work on some of the passing and skating patterns used in regroups. This is a more advanced drill, so make sure you have the right group for it before giving it a try.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

3 Man Weave

Use the 3 Man Weave to teach and re-enforce key concepts like timing, support, and offensive zone triangulation. As skill progresses, increase the demand on the players.

Attack Triangle Sequence

The Attack Triangle Sequence is one of my favorite drills to begin teaching basic attack structure to youngsters

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Cycle Give and Go Drill

The Cycle Give and Go Drill is an awesome way to introduce cycling concepts, and offensive attack patterns.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence

I use the Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence to simulate the patterns and passing lanes players will see in game situations. The idea for this drill is to instill the mindset of "Set-up, Attack, Rebound, then back to Set-up."

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Perpetual Cycle

One of my favorite cycling drills. I recommend starting simple, teaching the cycling fundamentals, then progressing up to this one.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

Quarter-Ice Perpetual Cycle

Great drill to work on the both the high cycle and low cycle in a quarter-ice setting.

Timed Delay Drill

Use the Timed Delay Drill to introduce basic passing and timing concepts, as well as offensive attack and delay tactics

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

"Precision" Practices, and When to Use Them

Here's a quick look over my shoulder for a practice I ran, as a guest coach, this past Saturday.

"S" Warm-up Drill

This is a great little high-speed hockey warm-up drill that incorporates many different elements of the game, including skating, passing, and shooting.

1 on 0 Headman Drill

I picked up this drill from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

3 Man 3 Zone Timing Drill

This is a variation on an old classic, the 3 Zone Timing Drill, which is one of my all-time favorites!

3 Man Weave

Use the 3 Man Weave to teach and re-enforce key concepts like timing, support, and offensive zone triangulation. As skill progresses, increase the demand on the players.

3 Pass and Shot Drill

I like to use this one as a warm-up drill, but it can also be used to develop passing and timing concepts, or to work on one-touch passes or shooting.

3-Zone Timing Drill

This is a "classic" flow drill with lots of passing, timing, and shooting.

4 Blueline Warm-up

The 4 Blueline Warm-up is part of the Scott Fukami drill collections available through DrillDraw. This drill has 5 phases, or sequences. All are fantastic!

4-Pass Hockey Warm-Up Drill

Here's a fast-paced warm-up drill that incorporates skating, passing, and shooting. Plus it works multiple angles for the goalies.

5 Pass One Touch

Here's a fantastic passing drill that I picked up from Larry Huras over at Hockey Coach Vision.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

Anaheim 2 on 1 Drill

Awesome drill from the Scott Fukami Drill Collections. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Attack Triangle Sequence

The Attack Triangle Sequence is one of my favorite drills to begin teaching basic attack structure to youngsters

Burkart 2 on 2 Deflection

My good buddy, and assistant coach, Josh Burkart showed this one to me a couple of years ago. It's a solid drill that has a pretty quick rotation, so not much standing around once your players pick up the flow of it.

Burkart Regroup Drill

This is a great little hockey regroup drill that can be converted into a 1 on 1 as your players progress.

Butterfly Passing Drill

Butterfly Passing is a great drill to work on passing fundamentals with youngsters, and to iron out technical "wrinkles" in more experienced players.

C-Pass Give and Go Drill

The C-Pass Give and Go is an awesome drill to get your players moving. It is high tempo, and works a lot on giving and receiving passes in motion.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Circle Passing: 5 & 6-Man Versions

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Controlled Skating Breakout Drill

Although this drill loosely mimics a breakout drill, the real purpose behind this one is to introduce Timing and Support concepts to youngsters. Players must time their skating to arrive at the designated receiving zones on time for a possible pass.

Cross-Ice 3 Pass & Shot Drill

Here's an awesome drill I came up with to add a little "flow" in a station setting.

Cycle Give and Go Drill

The Cycle Give and Go Drill is an awesome way to introduce cycling concepts, and offensive attack patterns.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

D to D Stretch Pass

Stretch passes, Regroups, and full-ice Timing drills are where I spend my time in the rare occasion I get a full-ice practice. Here's a great stretch pass drill to add to your library.

Double Bank Pass Drill

The Double Bank Pass Drill is quick paced, and a lot of fun. This is one you should definitely try out on the ice, as the diagram doesn't always do it justice

Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill

The Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill is a great drill to get everybody moving. It incorporates a little bit of everything, and even involves the goalies in the play.

Full Ice 3 Pass and Shot Drill

With the right group of players (and the proper number of players), this can be a very fun and effective drill.

Give and Go 1 on 1

This is another drill I picked up from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Give and Go Corner Drill

This is an awesome drill for the really young players. It works on a number of key skill elements such as giving and receiving passes, skating to a receiving zone, power turns with the puck, and shots.

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

Hymas Square Drill

This is a great, quick-paced, heads up passing drill.

Introduce Important Timing Tactics with the Center Lag Timing Drill

Teach your players to pass to designated receiving areas, not necessarily to players. The responsibility lies with the receiver to make the play work.

One-Touch Timing

This is a fantastic drill to introduce passing and timing concepts. It can be used as a precursor to the 3-Zone Timing Drill.

Passing Medley

I designed the Passing Medley as a drill to work on multiple types of passes, both standing still, and in motion.

Passing: Extreme Passing Kit

I designed the Passing Medley as a drill to work on multiple types of passes, both standing still, and in motion.

Perpetual Breakout Drill

The Perpetual Breakout is a great drill to develop hockey breakout abilities in a high-tempo, flow and timing setting.

Perpetual Cycle

One of my favorite cycling drills. I recommend starting simple, teaching the cycling fundamentals, then progressing up to this one.

Perpetual Power Turn and Passing Drill

Use this drill to work on power turns, passing, and certain timing and support concepts with your youngsters.

Power Turn Give & Go

Awesome drill for working on controlling the puck through a power turn. After going through simulated traffic, players explode out for a give & go pass with coach.

Serpentine Drill

The Serpentine Drill is a great progressional drill if you've been working on power turns. This drill develops power turns with the puck, and can incorporate some passing and shooting as well.

Slovakian 3-Pass and Shot Drill

Here’s a solid drill from my Slovakian friend Jan Bednar. He sends me awesome drills from time to time, and they’re always exactly my style! This drill has two variations, one ends in a 1 on 0, and the other ends in a 1 on 1.

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Swedish 5-Pass & Shot

The Swedish 5-Pass & Shot drill is a great way to work on some of the passing and skating patterns used in regroups. This is a more advanced drill, so make sure you have the right group for it before giving it a try.

Synchronized Passing Drill: Improve Full-Speed Passing Skills Without Breaking Stride

Synchronized Passing is a simple, yet highly effective, hockey passing drill that will help players to develop their ability to maintain proper hockey passing technique while in motion.

Timed Delay Drill

Use the Timed Delay Drill to introduce basic passing and timing concepts, as well as offensive attack and delay tactics

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Warm-up Pass Exchange

Incorporates a lot of different elements such as puckhandling, forward skating, backward skating, pivots, crossovers, passing, and shooting.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

Wiseman Drill

The "Wiseman Drill," named after one of my old coaches, is a great passing and timing drill (one of my favorites!). This drill incorporates many game simulation concepts such as one-touch passes, timing, support, offensive attack, and odd-man rushes.

X-Passer Hockey Passing Rebounder

X-Tiles Flooring System

ZigZag Touch Pass - Quarter Ice

Great alternative to the Circle Passing Drill if you're working in a condensed-space setting.

"Precision" Practices, and When to Use Them

Here's a quick look over my shoulder for a practice I ran, as a guest coach, this past Saturday.

4 Blueline Warm-up

The 4 Blueline Warm-up is part of the Scott Fukami drill collections available through DrillDraw. This drill has 5 phases, or sequences. All are fantastic!

Breakout, Regroup, Regroup, Attack Drill

This drill is extremely versatile, and can be used to work on a number of different game situations. After your team gets good at it, try throwing in a forechecker (or two).

Burkart Regroup Drill

This is a great little hockey regroup drill that can be converted into a 1 on 1 as your players progress.

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Swedish 5-Pass & Shot

The Swedish 5-Pass & Shot drill is a great way to work on some of the passing and skating patterns used in regroups. This is a more advanced drill, so make sure you have the right group for it before giving it a try.

"Snake" Shooting Drill

This could be one of the most basic hockey shooting drills out there… but it is also one of the most effective because of the concepts that can be applied.

1 on 1 Big Arc Backchecking

This is a simple drill, with a simple setup, that can be used to address a lot of different pieces of the game, including Lane Control, Body Positioning, and One Timer Shots on both Proper and Off Wings.

3 Cone Rebound Drill

The 3 Cone Rebound Drill will work on stopping the puck from outside shots, rebound control, recovering, covering the puck, handling rebounds and more.

3 Pass and Shot Drill

I like to use this one as a warm-up drill, but it can also be used to develop passing and timing concepts, or to work on one-touch passes or shooting.

3 Shot Hockey Warm-Up Drill

This is a great drill to get players' legs going at the beginning of practice. It's high tempo, and combines agility skating, with puck control, and shooting in motion.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

Anaheim 2 on 1 Drill

Awesome drill from the Scott Fukami Drill Collections. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Burkart 2 on 2 Deflection

My good buddy, and assistant coach, Josh Burkart showed this one to me a couple of years ago. It's a solid drill that has a pretty quick rotation, so not much standing around once your players pick up the flow of it.

C-Pass Give and Go Drill

The C-Pass Give and Go is an awesome drill to get your players moving. It is high tempo, and works a lot on giving and receiving passes in motion.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Chaos Stickhandling Drill

The Chaos Drill is a simple and effective hockey stickhandling drill that is sure to get your team flying!

Cross-Ice 3 Pass & Shot Drill

Here's an awesome drill I came up with to add a little "flow" in a station setting.

Cycle Give and Go Drill

The Cycle Give and Go Drill is an awesome way to introduce cycling concepts, and offensive attack patterns.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

Figure 8 Shooting and Deflection

Here's a quick and effective shooting drill that incorporates shots from the points, and deflections in front of the net.

Give and Go Corner Drill

This is an awesome drill for the really young players. It works on a number of key skill elements such as giving and receiving passes, skating to a receiving zone, power turns with the puck, and shots.

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

Half-Ice Bednár Conditioning Drill

Here's a Fantastic Half-Ice Conditioning Drill from Our Friend, Ján Bednár

Hockey Shooting Targets: Sniper's Edge

This set-up works really well in neighborhood or indoor settings, where you don’t want errant pucks damaging houses, windows, or other valuable items. The Sniper’s Edge is a tarp, so everything hits with a dead bounce and drops straight down.

Hockey Warm-Up Drill: High-Low Shooting

This drill is quick-paced, and incorporates skating, stickhandling, and shooting in stride. It's also great for goalies as it gets them moving side-to-side.

Leafs Warm-Up Drill

This is a fun one that touches on quite a few different skills, including backward skating, pivots, passing, drive skating, and shooting.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Overspeed Agility Drill

This drill works foot speed, agility, overspeed training, and puck control. Start with no pucks. As your players progress, add a puck, then start making them do 5 push-ups for each time they lose the puck.

Post Awareness Drill

This post awareness drill offers lots of possibilities. If you want to progress past just taking shots on this drill, give the players the option to carry the puck across the net/zone before they shoot.

Power Turn Give & Go

Awesome drill for working on controlling the puck through a power turn. After going through simulated traffic, players explode out for a give & go pass with coach.

Rick O'Shay Hockey Targeting System

The Rick O’Shay is a great hockey targeting system that gives an alternative perspective to the conventional “Shooter Tutor” style, roll-up canvases.

Serpentine Drill

The Serpentine Drill is a great progressional drill if you've been working on power turns. This drill develops power turns with the puck, and can incorporate some passing and shooting as well.

Shooting: My Favorite Off-ice Shooting Drill

In this video, my good friend Brett Fuller and I play a high-stakes game of P.I.G., to make it a little more interesting, the loser has to ride the bull (Happy Gilmore style) on camera. With so much on the line, neither of us wanted to lose!

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Warm-up Pass Exchange

Incorporates a lot of different elements such as puckhandling, forward skating, backward skating, pivots, crossovers, passing, and shooting.

Window Drill

I love the Window Drill for a few reasons: It's easy to set up, easy to execute, you can run it half ice, and it's extremely effective for working on hockey crossovers!

"Snake" Shooting Drill

This could be one of the most basic hockey shooting drills out there… but it is also one of the most effective because of the concepts that can be applied.

1 on 1 Swedish Overspeed Drill

In this drill, we develop passing, skating, gap control, and a number of other skills. This drill can also be developed into a regroup drill (see Option 2)

3 Shot Hockey Warm-Up Drill

This is a great drill to get players' legs going at the beginning of practice. It's high tempo, and combines agility skating, with puck control, and shooting in motion.

Bednár Skating Warm-up Drill

Make sure to have players execute at full speed, while maintaining good puck control, and staying low on the pivots.

Boost Foot Speed with this Great Hockey Agility Drill

Here is one of my favorite on-ice agility drills. I like it because it develops quick feet while skating forward, backward, as well as side-to-side.

Chaos Stickhandling Drill

The Chaos Drill is a simple and effective hockey stickhandling drill that is sure to get your team flying!

Czech Race

This one is a great, full-speed sprint race. Lots of intensity, and good opportunity for some physical contact.

Figure 8 Angling Drill

As you progress into hockey body checking drills, to stress that the purpose of body checking in hockey is to separate the man from the puck.

Half-Ice Bednár Conditioning Drill

Here's a Fantastic Half-Ice Conditioning Drill from Our Friend, Ján Bednár

Inside Mohawk

The Mohawk can be used while shooting, deking, pivoting, slipping checks... the options are limitless. Players who become proficient with the mohawk will find themselves performing it instinctively in games.

Leafs Warm-Up Drill

This is a fun one that touches on quite a few different skills, including backward skating, pivots, passing, drive skating, and shooting.

Mohawk Agility Drill

The Mohawk Agility Drill can be used with cones, sticks, "Attack Triangles," SweetHands, or any other hockey obstacle. More creative obstacles produce more creative players in this drill.

Mohawk Square Drill

The Mohawk Square Drill, and the Full-Ice Snake Drill are two phenomenal ways to work on inside mohawks with your team.

Musical Pucks

Working on crossovers can be hard and frustrating for many young hockey players. I've found that turning skill development drills into shooting drills or games can make them a lot more fun and motivating to work on. Musical Pucks is a small area game that demonstrates this tactic well.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Overspeed Agility Drill

This drill works foot speed, agility, overspeed training, and puck control. Start with no pucks. As your players progress, add a puck, then start making them do 5 push-ups for each time they lose the puck.

Perpetual Power Turn and Passing Drill

Use this drill to work on power turns, passing, and certain timing and support concepts with your youngsters.

Power Turn Give & Go

Awesome drill for working on controlling the puck through a power turn. After going through simulated traffic, players explode out for a give & go pass with coach.

Power Turn Progression

This is the progression I use when developing power turns with my players. Remember, to work on skill development, you must 1. Show the Skill, 2. Develop the Skill, 3. Apply the Skill.

Skating: PowerSlide Hockey Slide Board

Slovakian Agility Race

Here's another fantastic drill from Ján Bednár, the "Slovakian Agility Race."

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Warm-up Pass Exchange

Incorporates a lot of different elements such as puckhandling, forward skating, backward skating, pivots, crossovers, passing, and shooting.

Weiss Tech Coaching Clinics: On-Ice Skill Development in Action

This video shows you what this on-ice skill development will look like in action, with some actual practice footage.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

Window Drill

I love the Window Drill for a few reasons: It's easy to set up, easy to execute, you can run it half ice, and it's extremely effective for working on hockey crossovers!

3 on 3 "D" Support

This small area game drill give players a chance to work on quick transitions, give and go passes and set-ups, and swinging to become a passing option.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Musical Pucks

Working on crossovers can be hard and frustrating for many young hockey players. I've found that turning skill development drills into shooting drills or games can make them a lot more fun and motivating to work on. Musical Pucks is a small area game that demonstrates this tactic well.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Small Area Games: Triangle 1-Timer

This is a fast-paced, small area game drill that incorporates a lot of one-touch passes and one-timer shots. Works REALLY well with the right group of players. Encourage your players to move the puck quickly and isolate the man.

Spice Rebound Activation

Fun small area game to add some competition to your practice!

Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence

I use the Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence to simulate the patterns and passing lanes players will see in game situations. The idea for this drill is to instill the mindset of "Set-up, Attack, Rebound, then back to Set-up."

Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill

The Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill works really well to teach proper angling technique for F1 & F2 on the PK forecheck.

Bednár Skating Warm-up Drill

Make sure to have players execute at full speed, while maintaining good puck control, and staying low on the pivots.

Chaos Stickhandling Drill

The Chaos Drill is a simple and effective hockey stickhandling drill that is sure to get your team flying!

Dangle Glove Hockey Stickhandling Aid

Every once in a while, a product comes along that just "makes sense." The Dangle Glove is one of them.

Fast Hands Review

I recently had the chance to try out the Fast Hands hockey stickhandling training aid. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces of stickhandling equipment of all time!

Give and Go Corner Drill

This is an awesome drill for the really young players. It works on a number of key skill elements such as giving and receiving passes, skating to a receiving zone, power turns with the puck, and shots.

Half-Ice Bednár Conditioning Drill

Here's a Fantastic Half-Ice Conditioning Drill from Our Friend, Ján Bednár

HockeyVision Training Pucks

HockeyVision Training Pucks are a great way to train yourself to rely less and less on seeing the puck, which will then allow you to stickhandle with your head up, enabling you to see more of the play.

Mohawk Agility Drill

The Mohawk Agility Drill can be used with cones, sticks, "Attack Triangles," SweetHands, or any other hockey obstacle. More creative obstacles produce more creative players in this drill.

Mohawk Square Drill

The Mohawk Square Drill, and the Full-Ice Snake Drill are two phenomenal ways to work on inside mohawks with your team.

Passing: Extreme Passing Kit

I designed the Passing Medley as a drill to work on multiple types of passes, both standing still, and in motion.

QuickStickz Review

QuickStickz is an innovative new way to work on your stickhandling abilities off the ice, and it’s a lot of fun too!

Serpentine Drill

The Serpentine Drill is a great progressional drill if you've been working on power turns. This drill develops power turns with the puck, and can incorporate some passing and shooting as well.

Skating: PowerSlide Hockey Slide Board

Stickhandling: Attack Triangle

Stickhandling: Green Biscuit Review

Stickhandling: SmartHockey Ball Review

Stickhandling: Swedish Wooden Ball Review

Stickhandling: SweetHands

Warm-up Pass Exchange

Incorporates a lot of different elements such as puckhandling, forward skating, backward skating, pivots, crossovers, passing, and shooting.

X-Deviator Hockey Stickhandling Aid

I’m a strong believer that players who don’t take advantage of off-ice training time are leaving precious skill development on the table.

X-Tiles Flooring System

"S" Warm-up Drill

This is a great little high-speed hockey warm-up drill that incorporates many different elements of the game, including skating, passing, and shooting.

1 on 1 Big Arc Backchecking

This is a simple drill, with a simple setup, that can be used to address a lot of different pieces of the game, including Lane Control, Body Positioning, and One Timer Shots on both Proper and Off Wings.

1 on 1 Swedish Overspeed Drill

In this drill, we develop passing, skating, gap control, and a number of other skills. This drill can also be developed into a regroup drill (see Option 2)

3 Man Weave

Use the 3 Man Weave to teach and re-enforce key concepts like timing, support, and offensive zone triangulation. As skill progresses, increase the demand on the players.

3 on 0, 3 on 1, 3 on 2 Drill

A great drill for imitating odd-man rush scenarios, and is also GREAT conditioning for the forwards.

3 on 3 "D" Support

This small area game drill give players a chance to work on quick transitions, give and go passes and set-ups, and swinging to become a passing option.

5-Card Skating Drill

5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in.

9 Half-Ice Hockey Drills Every Coach Should Know About

With the cost of ice time going up, many teams are sharing practice sessions, especially at the younger age groups. The need for half ice hockey drills continues to grow, and has been a highly requested topic from our readers.

Advanced Hockey Breakout Progression

This is a highly effective breakout progression. There are endless ways to change it up to work on different game situations, and it involves many recurring passing patterns.

Anaheim 2 on 1 Drill

Awesome drill from the Scott Fukami Drill Collections. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Attack Triangle Sequence

The Attack Triangle Sequence is one of my favorite drills to begin teaching basic attack structure to youngsters

Bednar Escape Race

This one is great for full-speed agility skating, and works power turns and pivots, forward and backward.

Burkart 2 on 2 Deflection

My good buddy, and assistant coach, Josh Burkart showed this one to me a couple of years ago. It's a solid drill that has a pretty quick rotation, so not much standing around once your players pick up the flow of it.

Burkart Regroup Drill

This is a great little hockey regroup drill that can be converted into a 1 on 1 as your players progress.

Center Boundary 2 on 1

The Center Boundary 2 on 1 is a fabulous small area game drill that works on quick transitions and 2 on 1's in tight areas.

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

Excellent drill to work on the centering pass with younger age groups. Use the second variation to work on net-front battles

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Cycle Give and Go Drill

The Cycle Give and Go Drill is an awesome way to introduce cycling concepts, and offensive attack patterns.

Czech 1-Timer Drill

Here's a quick-paced 1-timer drill that will help get your players' shots harder and more accurate!

Czech Race

This one is a great, full-speed sprint race. Lots of intensity, and good opportunity for some physical contact.

D to D Stretch Pass

Stretch passes, Regroups, and full-ice Timing drills are where I spend my time in the rare occasion I get a full-ice practice. Here's a great stretch pass drill to add to your library.

Drive Drill Race

The Drive Drill Race is a great hockey angling drill that can be used at any age or skill level.

Figure 8 Angling Drill

As you progress into hockey body checking drills, to stress that the purpose of body checking in hockey is to separate the man from the puck.

Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill

The Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill is a great drill to get everybody moving. It incorporates a little bit of everything, and even involves the goalies in the play.

Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence

I use the Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence to simulate the patterns and passing lanes players will see in game situations. The idea for this drill is to instill the mindset of "Set-up, Attack, Rebound, then back to Set-up."

Give and Go 1 on 1

This is another drill I picked up from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

Give and Go Shooting Drill

This drill is simple and straight to the point. Players must learn to read the pressure, get a pass back to the corner, and execute a give-and-go.

Hockey Breakout Drill

Many hockey situations occur in patterns. This simple hockey breakout drill breaks down these patterns into their simplest form, then puts them back together in sequence to mimic a game situation.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Man in the Box Drill

This is another one of my favorite 1 on 1 hockey drills. The set-up is very simple, but there are SO MANY important concepts that can be worked on... it is VERY effective!

Master the 2v2 Continuous Backcheck Drill: Step-by-Step Guide

Put this high intensity backchecking drill to work for your hockey players!

Michigan Tech 1 on 1 Drill

This is one of my favorite 1 on 1 drills because you can use it to work on so many different skills. Make sure your forwards swing fairly deep into the zone to receive the breakout pass.

Musical Pucks

Working on crossovers can be hard and frustrating for many young hockey players. I've found that turning skill development drills into shooting drills or games can make them a lot more fun and motivating to work on. Musical Pucks is a small area game that demonstrates this tactic well.

On the Dot 3 on 2

This can be a fantastic drill, depending on the skill level of your players. At best it's a quick-paced, high-intensity, odd-man-rush drill. At worst it can be quite slow, with too much standing around...

Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill

The Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill works really well to teach proper angling technique for F1 & F2 on the PK forecheck.

Perpetual Breakout Drill

The Perpetual Breakout is a great drill to develop hockey breakout abilities in a high-tempo, flow and timing setting.

Perpetual Cycle

One of my favorite cycling drills. I recommend starting simple, teaching the cycling fundamentals, then progressing up to this one.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

Pressure v. Contain 1 on 1

Pressure or contain; move quickly toward the opponent if he is not in control of the puck (pressure); - move more slowly toward the opponent if he is in perfect control of the puck (contain); - knees bent.

Quarter-Ice Perpetual Cycle

Great drill to work on the both the high cycle and low cycle in a quarter-ice setting.

Slovakian 3-Pass and Shot Drill

Here’s a solid drill from my Slovakian friend Jan Bednar. He sends me awesome drills from time to time, and they’re always exactly my style! This drill has two variations, one ends in a 1 on 0, and the other ends in a 1 on 1.

Small Area Games: Triangle 1-Timer

This is a fast-paced, small area game drill that incorporates a lot of one-touch passes and one-timer shots. Works REALLY well with the right group of players. Encourage your players to move the puck quickly and isolate the man.

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Spice Rebound Activation

Fun small area game to add some competition to your practice!

Stop & Start Angling

I used this drill last week with a group of Mites and Squirts in a local clinic here in Salt Lake City. It was a progression from some of the skills we had been working on earlier in the session. This drill combines stops and starts, angling, and drive skating.

Swedish 5-Pass & Shot

The Swedish 5-Pass & Shot drill is a great way to work on some of the passing and skating patterns used in regroups. This is a more advanced drill, so make sure you have the right group for it before giving it a try.

Teaching Defense to 7-Year-Olds

Most 7-year-olds aren't capable of skating backwards well enough to play a proper 1 on 1. But there are still 1 on 1s in games. So what do you do? Here's my strategy.

Timed Delay Drill

Use the Timed Delay Drill to introduce basic passing and timing concepts, as well as offensive attack and delay tactics

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

"Precision" Practices, and When to Use Them

Here's a quick look over my shoulder for a practice I ran, as a guest coach, this past Saturday.

4 Blueline Warm-up

The 4 Blueline Warm-up is part of the Scott Fukami drill collections available through DrillDraw. This drill has 5 phases, or sequences. All are fantastic!

5-Card Skating Drill

5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in.

Advanced Hockey Breakout Progression

This is a highly effective breakout progression. There are endless ways to change it up to work on different game situations, and it involves many recurring passing patterns.

Breakout, Regroup, Regroup, Attack Drill

This drill is extremely versatile, and can be used to work on a number of different game situations. After your team gets good at it, try throwing in a forechecker (or two).

Burkart Regroup Drill

This is a great little hockey regroup drill that can be converted into a 1 on 1 as your players progress.

Coach Regroup 2 on 0

I love this drill because is is very modifiable. You can start simple, with coaches controlling the play, and progress to complex variations which include 2 on 1's!

Controlled Skating Breakout Drill

Although this drill loosely mimics a breakout drill, the real purpose behind this one is to introduce Timing and Support concepts to youngsters. Players must time their skating to arrive at the designated receiving zones on time for a possible pass.

Face-off Sequence

This Face-Off Sequence is a great way to nail down your face-off set-ups, no matter which zone you're in.

Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill

The Fukami Breakout Warm-up Drill is a great drill to get everybody moving. It incorporates a little bit of everything, and even involves the goalies in the play.

Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence

I use the Full Speed Power Play Passing Sequence to simulate the patterns and passing lanes players will see in game situations. The idea for this drill is to instill the mindset of "Set-up, Attack, Rebound, then back to Set-up."

Hockey Breakout Drill

Many hockey situations occur in patterns. This simple hockey breakout drill breaks down these patterns into their simplest form, then puts them back together in sequence to mimic a game situation.

MacDonald Forecheck Drill

The MacDonald Forecheck is a nice little drill to work on forechecking lanes and angles.

Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill

The Penalty Kill Forecheck Angling Drill works really well to teach proper angling technique for F1 & F2 on the PK forecheck.

Perpetual Breakout Drill

The Perpetual Breakout is a great drill to develop hockey breakout abilities in a high-tempo, flow and timing setting.

Perpetual Forecheck

This drill allows you to work on a lot of different stuff at once. Obviously, the main focus is forechecking, but you’re also working on D-Zone Coverage, and Breakouts as well.

Spice Figure 8 Passing Drill

I love this hockey passing drill because it just flows well––especially when you have the right group of players for it.

Swedish 5-Pass & Shot

The Swedish 5-Pass & Shot drill is a great way to work on some of the passing and skating patterns used in regroups. This is a more advanced drill, so make sure you have the right group for it before giving it a try.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts of All Time

Weiss Tech Hockey's Top 5 Most Popular Posts. Here they are (remember, my video-production abilities have evolved over the years… so you might get a good laugh at some of my older stuff!)

"S" Warm-up Drill

This is a great little high-speed hockey warm-up drill that incorporates many different elements of the game, including skating, passing, and shooting.

1 on 0 Headman Drill

I picked up this drill from the Scott Fukami drill collections available to DrillDraw owners. These drill collections are phenomenal, and are filled with hundreds of REALLY GOOD, well-drawn drills.

4 Blueline Warm-up

The 4 Blueline Warm-up is part of the Scott Fukami drill collections available through DrillDraw. This drill has 5 phases, or sequences. All are fantastic!

4-Pass Hockey Warm-Up Drill

Here's a fast-paced warm-up drill that incorporates skating, passing, and shooting. Plus it works multiple angles for the goalies.

Bednár Skating Warm-up Drill

Make sure to have players execute at full speed, while maintaining good puck control, and staying low on the pivots.

C-Pass Give and Go Drill

The C-Pass Give and Go is an awesome drill to get your players moving. It is high tempo, and works a lot on giving and receiving passes in motion.

Full Ice 3 Pass and Shot Drill

With the right group of players (and the proper number of players), this can be a very fun and effective drill.

Half-Ice Bednár Conditioning Drill

Here's a Fantastic Half-Ice Conditioning Drill from Our Friend, Ján Bednár

Leafs Warm-Up Drill

This is a fun one that touches on quite a few different skills, including backward skating, pivots, passing, drive skating, and shooting.

Spice 2 Shot Warm-Up Drill

Great warm-up drill that incorporates skating, passing, and shooting.

Tom Renney Warm-up

This is a fantastic warm-up drill for more advanced teams. My old junior coach back in Toronto, Kevin Burkett, used to run this with us almost every practice.

Warm-up Pass Exchange

Incorporates a lot of different elements such as puckhandling, forward skating, backward skating, pivots, crossovers, passing, and shooting.