Warm up Drill Description
Both players on one end (green without a puck & blue with a puck) start on the whistle, then the drill is continuous alternating from end to end.
The blue player (with puck), delays slightly allowing for the green player to get ahead by skating up, across and into the middle.
The blue player passes the puck (pass 1) to the green player, who skates with the puck through the neutral zone along the dot line.
The green player, now with the puck, passes to the first player in the green line at the other end (pass 2). Now that green player cuts across the ice, staying over and outside the center ice circle, receives a pass (pass 3) from the line originally started from, takes the puck and shoots (shot 1).
After passing to the green player (pass 1), the blue player (who originally started) skates across the ice going wide and around the far neutral zone face off dot, receives a stretch pass (pass 4), from the green line in the other end and goes back into the end they started from and shoots (shot 2).
Once the 4th pass is given, then with timing, the other end can go following the same routes and patterns.
Note:
Remember to switch sides.
Warm up Drill Focus:
– Timing and awareness
– Hard and accurate passing
