Low-High Warm-Up

PURPOSE

This is a basic warm-up drill focusing on skating, shooting, and adjusting shot angles. More importantly, it gets goalies moving from low to high and vice versa having to adjust to new shooting angles and depths.

HOW TO

• Players in each corner at and each point with pucks.

• Player 1 curls around top of circle for quick shot.

• Player 2 from point pulls across the blue line and takes a long shot.

• Player 3 curls in from other corner for quick shot.

• Player 4 pulls across blue for another long shot.

FOCUS

• Hard, readable shots as this should be more about the goalies than the shooters.

VARIATIONS

• Instead of making an X (1-2-3-4) go in a clockwise or counter clockwise direction (1-4-2-3).
• Add give & Go’s
  • 1 passes to 4 and gets it back, curls to shoot, 2 passes to other D and shoots, 3 passes to 4 gets it back and shoots, 4 passes to 2 and gets it back for shot
• 1 and 3 can step in front for a screen tip rebound