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Stick Handling Drills
- Weave and Shoot Drill (same drill as Individual Skills Contest): Athlete weaves 21 meters through cones placed every 3 meters and shoots at goal.
- Follow the Leader Drill: Athletes practice stick handling behind the leader, who can go in any path. Leaders should vary their speed and navigate around obstacles as appropriate for the level of the team. Have several groups with several leaders.
- Circle Weave Drill: Athlete stick handles a puck in and out of a circle of teammates. Athlete then gives the puck to next person who does the same. Continue until the entire team has made the run. Lower level teams may start this drill at a walk and then build up to a jog or trot. Higher level teams may start at a jog or trot and then build up to a run.
- Red light-Green light Drill: Athletes line up at the starting line at one end of the court. On coach's command "green light," athletes move forward with stick and puck. On coach's command "red light," athlete stops. Any athlete moving during the "red light" returns to starting line. First athlete to the finish line wins. The coach should make the "green lights" short enough so that the athletes stop 2 to 4 times before they can reach the other side of the court.
- Gauntlet Drill: Athlete stick handles a puck in a straight line past a double line of teammates, which are staggered at 2-meter intervals on either side. The stick handling lane should be a minimum of 2 meters wide. If a teammate is successful in stick checking the athlete who is running the gauntlet, that teammate becomes the next runner of the gauntlet, from the beginning. The athlete who was stick checked takes the place of the new runner in the line. The teammates on the line should not step into the lane; they should only stick check as the runner passes through their area on the line. NOTE: The line will not be able to steal the puck, only dislodge it from the runner's stick.
- Musical Pucks Drill: Athletes run outside a circle of cones or a line on the court. On a whistle, each athlete has to retrieve a puck from the center and stick handle it to a cone or outside the lined area. There are fewer pucks than athletes. Whoever doesn't get a puck is out. The drill can be varied with the number of pucks and can continue until one or more athletes are left controlling pucks.
- Steal the Puck Drill: This is the same game/ variation as the musical pucks drill (see above drill), only the pucks can be stick checked from another athlete before that athlete can get to the safety zone.
- Relay Races: Evenly divide athletes into several lines. Demonstrate a designated skill and then have the athletes try the skill. First team that has all of its athletes finished and sitting down gets a point. To even out abilities of teams, let the losing team "draft" from the winning team and give the winning team an athlete in exchange. Stick handling races can include: forward, backward, accelerate, stop on whistle, weave in and out of cones (forward, backward, two at a time), weave around defender, weave up and pass back to next in line, move to next cone and pass (keep repeating until reaching last cones), etc.
- Square Relay Race: Evenly divide athletes to four corners of square. Races can include weaving in and out of cones in the same direction, opposite directions, diagonally across the square, passing across the square, etc. Give points to winning teams, draft pick to losing teams.
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