Hockey is a game of speed and strength, but it`s also a contest of skill and precision. Teams that control the puck also control the game and score more goals. >Hockey Drills for Puck Control> presents 70 challenging drills to help you better control the puck and help your team put more points on the scoreboard.Author Vern Stenlund, a former professional player, is now a successful coach and an instructor for the Huron Hockey School. Huron has graduated more than 300 players to the NHL, and each year enrolls more than 10, 000 aspiring hockey players to its clinics. In >Hockey Drills for Puck Control> Stenlund presents activities that translate into improved competitive performance on the ice.Each chapter presents 10 illustrated drills that focus on specific puck-control skills. All activities are easily adaptable to roller hockey, and many drills emphasize learning in game-like situations.The drills progress in difficulty--from fundamental to advanced and from solo practices to game situations. A special Drill Finder section cross references drills by their related skills categories so you can easily find the ones that fit your needs.Each chapter includes full-page diagrams illustrating the drills and features Key Points and Drill Progressions sections in each chapter that:- tell you what Huron Hockey School coaches have learned over the years to make the drills most effective,- offer tips to help players and coaches reduce the time to master skills, and- provide helpful ideas to refine the drills to challenge even the most experienced player.Stenlund explains how to modify drills to include shooting at the end of activities and includes a chapter on passing as a means of puck control.Improve your puck control skills with these 70 ice-tested >Hockey Drills for Puck Control>.

How should a modern hockey drill and practice look like? How much does the console games affect your players and in what way, something negative or is it an opportunity? What can we hockey coaches learn from the world of console games? These are questions that are handled in the book and transferred as practical examples to hockey drills! Personally, I am not a big fan of console games, even if it can sometimes, surely be perceived that way in the book. For example, I would prefer that my own children were more physically active than they are right now! Probably I'm not alone about that idea? But I try to understand, see the possibilities, and handle the new challenges, as a parent and coach and share these lessons, connections, development and opportunities for you as a hockey coach and, or parent. How do you change a one dimensional hockey drill to a modern multidimensional hockey drill? Or what components are needed in a modern skill developing hockey drill? Learnings from console games are transferred in practice to your on ice drills and off-ice practices, with over 200 hockey drills in the end.

Hockey Plays and Strategies features a variety of plays, systems, and strategies for game play in the offensive, neutral, and defensive zones. Special situations such as the power play, penalty kill, and face-offs are also featured.

This is a practical Handbook for youth Ice Hockey coaches, and parents. It has 129 individual pictures and illustration variations to look at. All the skill activities and drills are numbered for easy reference between coaches and parents. Complete with diagram, illustration, and explanation for each one. It covers all the fundamentals you will need to get started in offensive ice hockey. It also has training games to play, sample practice schedules, many strategies to use, and many plays to run to get your team started.