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Max Skill Station Series #1 - #3

https://vimeo.com/243488565

A great setup for stations or even private and small group lessons. This setup requires a small area of the ice, a tire or cone, a small barrier (not the long ones), and a smaller sized net (if available). As you start working within this setup you will most likely start to think of the limitless possibilities of drills you can do from this formation.

Areas of Focus

There are a lot of basic fundamentals that player get to work on in these drills.

Control turns
Control turns with pucks
Retreiving pucks forwards and backwards
Shooting (and keeping your head over the puck)
Single shifts

Series #1

Place two pucks on one side of the barrier depending on whether the player shoots right or left handed (see animation and diagram)
Player starts with a tight control turn around tire
Player retrieves puck from barrier by pulling the puck towards the body
Player should be ready to shoot right away
Puck should not touch the back hand side of the stick
This will help player keep their head over the puck during the shot process
Then the player circles back around the barrier and does the same thing for 2 -3 repetitions

Series #2

Player will start with the puck and place another puck on the opposite side of the barrier (see diagram)
Player starts with a tight control turn while controling the puck
As they come back to the barrier they do a single shift to their forehand
Players should protect the puck from the barrier
After the barrier the puck should be in shooting position for a shot
Players go in front of the net and then do a tight control turn around the net
Player picks up the puck of the barrier by pulling it into their body
Player does same thing with the puck they just retrieved off the barrier
Repeat 2 to 3 times

Series #3

Place a puck on each side of the tire (see diagram)
This time player will start backwards and skate up to the tire
Player will retrieve the puck as they are skating backwards around the tire
Player transitions forward to the barrier and does a single shift to their backhand side
Players shoot shortly after they are around the barrier
Player swings in front of the net back towards the tire and transitions backwards at the barrier
Player does the same thing in the other direction
Repeat 2 times

TIP: You can make a game out of it by timing players and having penalties for missing the net.