The Garage Sale Drill

Drill Description:

• All kids start at the goal line and skate to center ice, leaving their sticks there and next
• skate to the far blue line to touch up,
• skate to center ice again to leave a glove
• skate to the near blue line to touch up
• skate to center ice to leave the other glove, then
• skate to the blue line, to touch up
• and then retrieve all equipment in the order in which they dropped it, before racing to finish at the goal line.

This note from Dennis Chighisola…  The sender of this drill seems to have a knack for fun oriented drills.  Ya, her approach to the game always seems to make me smile, and I can just imagine that her players look forward to what she might have planned next.

My take on such drills?  I firmly believe we can have a balance when it comes to strict teaching drills and fun ones.  As a matter of fact, I think at least one of these would be good for somewhere near the end of a practice (hey, why not have your players leave the ice laughing?).

I might also add that a drill like the above one isn’t only suitable to younger players.  I mean, think about it…  Even a high school or college coach could use it, but with something at stake, or something that results in bragging rights, whatever.  Again, picture it, with older guys absolutely killing themselves while also laughing their heads off.  No, not a bad way to end a practice at all.