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Puck Handling Skills  

A3 Big Moves Warm up, HC Dukla Camp

Published by TomM On Tuesday, August 17 2010 @ 02:21 PM EDT

Players skate around the ice and practice stickhandling moves all around the body, in the feet and try to separate the movement of the upper and lower body.

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B500 Swedish Stickhandling in Circles

Published by TomM On Thursday, April 15 2010 @ 04:58 PM EDT

Key Points:
Make moves all around the body. Protect the puck, keep the head up.

Description:
1. One unit of 5 in each circle.
2. On the whistle go full speed.
3. Rotate clockwise to another circle.
4. Coaches work with the goalies.
5. Do all moves, dekes, escape moves changing the task at each circle.

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A200 Puck Protection Circuit

Published by TomM On Sunday, April 11 2010 @ 08:33 AM EDT

Key Points:
Shield the puck with the body. Use quick turns, head and body fakes, pivots, escape moves to gain the offensive side and score. Keep the stick free to receive passes and tip shots.

Description:
1. Get puck from corner or below goal line and try to score or get open for a pass or tip vs a defender.
2. Keepaway-1 pt. for 5 passes.
3. 2 pucks weave around and pass. No Passing.
4. 1vs1vs1. All against each other.
5. 3 vs 3 no passing.
6. 2 vs 1
7. 2 vs 2 or 3 vs 2.

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A200 Puck Handling Circuit

Published by TomM On Thursday, April 01 2010 @ 09:54 PM EDT

Key Points:
Protect the puck with the body. Develop big moves all around the body and thru the legs to shield the puck. Learn to pivot and make quick turns and backward escapes.

Description:
. Zig-zag forward and backward with the puck.
2. Protect the puck skating #8's.
3. a. Skate along line and reach around pylons.
b. Skate around pylons keeping puck on the line.
4. Figure 8's around gloves to the front and sides.
5. Weave through pylons.
6. 1 on 1 game. Go around pylon to become the attacker.
7. Partners work inside the circle and protect the puck from each other for 10”.

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B202 Luhowy Puckhandling and Passing Circuit

Published by TomM On Sunday, July 20 2008 @ 11:50 PM EDT

Key Points:
Control the puck and “lock and load” when you carry the puck; meaning move it from in front to your side. Keep a strong skating position with the knees bent and head up.

Description:
Line up behind the top of the circle with 2 or 3 players facing 2 or 3 players at the other end. Have between 2 and 4 groups depending on the number of players. A group of 4 is the smallest.
1. First player in each line skate towards the other line and pass to the far line.
2. Exchange pucks and pass to opposite line.
3. Skate to red line tight left turn and pass to original line.
4. Repeat but make a tight right turn.
5. Carry toward other player and head and shoulder fakes with legs wide then pass.
6. Alternate knee touches and pass to far line.
7. Carry the puck and do a lateral push to face the other player and exchange pucks.
8. Exchange pucks twice then pass to the far end.
*Other passes like backhands, saucer or moves like in the feet, toe drag can be added.

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Puck Handling Practice

Published by TomM On Monday, July 21 2008 @ 04:39 AM EDT

College women puck handling and passing practice Tracey Luhowy.
This practice focuses on handling the puck all around the body in drills and then in game situation.
1. Nervous system overload A300 stickhandling both a puck and tennis ball at the same time, then one with the stick on one with the skates.
2. B500 Chaos stickhandling in the nzone with a tennis ball with speed intervals.
3. B202 passing and puckhandilng tasks.
4. B5 pass and shooting from 3 lanes.
5. D400 games in each half of Perry Pearn 2 on 2.

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A2-A200 Puck Handling and Skating Practice from Finland

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 02:06 PM EDT

1. A200 formation and Yashin leads the big moves warm demonstrating the skill and the kid's follow.
2. A2 skating drills for balance and edge control.
3. A200 Russian Big Moves exercises. Pro player demonstrate the big moves and the players follow.

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B6 Zig Zag

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 08:28 AM EDT

Moves to separate the movement of the upper and lower body.

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A2 Russian Puck-Handling Warm-up with Shots with Vladimir Yursinov

Published by TomM On Monday, April 27 2009 @ 03:14 PM EDT

This can be done every time players go on the ice to expand their muscle memory. The point of these exercises is to increase the size of the reach with the stickhandling moves, and to separate the upper and lower body.
This is one of the most important exercises a player can do to develop puck handling skills. All the moves can also be practice off ice with various kinds of balls and pucks.
Description:
• From the A2 formation, players skate down the ice in 3 or 4 groups; practice big moves with the puck. One player leave and the next player go when he/she gets past the top of the circle. Finish with a shot from your lane no closer than the hash marks.
. Go one way then the other and do a different skill each time.
• Reach forward while down on 1 knee, reach back as far as you can.
• Give the puck forward and take it back with the toe of the stick.
• Place hands close together and reach sideways each way as far as possible.
• Practice head fakes and shoulder drops, and move the puck quickly to the other side of your body.
• Do high step-overs, when you step with your right foot to the left, reach as far as possible to the right with the puck, step with the left foot to the right and reach as far as possible to the left with the puck.
• Reach back as far as you can with the puck, turning the upper body so you are looking behind you as you skate in the opposite direction. Do the same the other way.
• Do 3 or 4 crossovers to the left and reach as far as possible to the right with the puck, then cross over to the right and reach as far as possible to the left with the puck. Reach back as far as you can with the puck, turning the upper body so you are looking behind you as you skate in the opposite direction.
• Single fake by practicing a small fake one way, then quickly pull the puck across your body to the other side.
• Double fake by giving a small fake one way, then quickly pull the puck across your body to the other side. Immediately bring it back.
• Put the puck behind you and pass it up into your skates from 1 side, then the other.
• Have the puck in front of you and pass it back to your skates and up to your stick, then off the outside of each skate and to your stick.
• Reach back on the forehand, then quickly pull the puck across your body.
• Skate backwards with the puck after pivoting to the right and do the same after pivoting left.
• Slide sideways, pushing about 4 or 5 times with the inside skate and gliding on the outside skate. Fake passes and shots while skating like this.
Pivot a complete circle to the left and then to the right.
. Fake a slapshot and go around opponent on the backhand side.
. Fake a slapshot and go around opponent on the forehand side.
. Fake a slapshot and then do a backhand tight turn around opponent.
. Fake a slapshot and reach out like you are going around the opponent on your forehand and then pull the puck quickly to your backhand and go around opponent.



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Stickhandling practice off ice

Published by TomM On Monday, September 01 2008 @ 10:23 PM EDT

Josh Dixon works on puck handling skills with players at hockey school in the skills centre.

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A300 Multiple Puck, Ball Nervous System Overload

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 08:45 PM EDT

Key Points:
Use two or more balls, pucks of different sizes, weights, bouncyness to overload the nervous system.

Description:
1. Skate around the ice and control more than one puck, ball or combination of balls and pucks.
2. Use items such as: tennis balls-light, racquet balls-bouncy, heavy pucks, light pucks, soccer balls, waffle balls-light, squash balls-small. The nervous system has to adjust to each weight and size and control the amount of pressure applied on each object.
3. Progress in the amount and variation of objects and then reduce the number every few minutes until the player is handling one puck.

-A routine I have a pro player do is; skate around the ice with a tennis, racquet and hockey ball. After one lap I take away the hockey ball and replace it with a puck, another lap and I replace the tennis ball with another puck, third lap I take away the racquet ball and now he has 3 pucks. After a lap two pucks putting them back to the skates and on the stick. Then one puck doing the Russian big moves all around and thru the body.

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Russian Big Moves Demo

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 08:45 PM EDT

The coach demonstrates the big moves, the instructors then lead and the players follow.
1. Long reach forward and back with the top hand.
2. Slalom side to side the puck goes right and skate left then skate right and reach left.
3. Put the puck from the stick to the outside and inside edges of the skate and back to the sticl.
4. Legs wide apart, hands close together and use head and shoulder fakes.
5. Tight turn right then left.
6. Heel to heel slide each way.
7 Skate from forward and slide backwards with the puck each way.
8. Fake slapshot and go stick side the across the body.
9. Fkae a shot and tight turn each way.
10. Yo you the puck with the toes down the ice.
11. Toe drag into the body while sliding backward.
12. Back toe drag.

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A300 Toe Drag and Finish with a Shot

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 08:45 PM EDT

Key Points:
Keep your hands away from the body. Roll the wrists especially with the top hand and slide the bottom hand up the stick. Give a hard fake to the inside to lure the defender then pull the puck across while you slide away and around him.
1. Pull the puck around the dots and then shoot. Slide backward as you pull the puck into your skates; then accelerate forward.
2. Shoot on the net with a toe drag and release.
3. Repeat but with a back toe drag.
4. Change directions.

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Puck Protection Skills from Finland

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 07:08 PM EDT

Shield the puck.

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Puck Handling with an old coach

Published by TomM On Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 07:08 PM EDT
Keywords slow

The old guy moves around using various moves.

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