SKILLS
PURPOSE
Basic regrouping concepts with a D swing and stretch pass.
FOCUS
- Clean, tape to tape passes. There is no pressure, so there should be no missed passes.
- Communicating on the swing.
- Getting open on the flat, for the stretch pass and recognizing to drive or to pass.
HOW TO
- 4 lines of players (one each inside the blue inline with the offside faceoff dots), two with pucks
- At the same time, X1 starts with a puck and X2 skates without a puck toward the O players. X1 passes to O2.
- X1 and X2 cross and regroup. At the same time O2 swings the puck to O1.
- O2 stretch passes to X2.
- X1 and X2 go into the zone 2v0.
- After the stretch pass, the drill continues from the other direction with O1 and O2.
EXTEND
- Run from two sides at one time (X1 and O1)
- Set up to run from all 4 lines, two at a time (X1 and O1, then X2 and O2), or one line at a time (X1, then O1, then X2, then O2).
- Add a second regroup
- Adjust the distance between players
- Add different passing parameters like a drop pass going into the zone
