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Hockey Equipment: Choosing a Hockey Stick

This video provides some great tips on how to pick the proper hockey equipment for youth players. It stresses the importance of picking a shorter stick for younger players.

Coaching Hockey: Fun with the Puck

When coaching hockey with very young children, it's important to incorporate fun activities with learning hockey skills. This video offers some great ideas for fun activities that you can do with just a puck.

Hockey Skating: Crossover Start

From a dead stop, a youth hockey player can use the crossover step to quickly transition into a fast, powerful stride. This video shows you how to do a crossover start and explains why it's so important in hockey skating.

Hockey Skills: How to Receive a Pass

Learning to receive a pass is one of the most crucial hockey skills for youth hockey players to develop. This video demonstrates both how to catch a pass and then either move to make a pass or shoot the puck.

Hockey Shooting: How to Shoot a Wrist Shot

The wrist shot is perhaps the most basic shot for youth hockey players to learn first. This video breaks down the technique for you and shows you the most important hockey shooting mechanics.

Hockey Drills: Simple Stickhandling Drill

A youth hockey coach shows one of the most effective stickhandling hockey drills in this video. This drill can be done anywhere, and the player can use simple objects like a tennis ball. This drill is great for helping youth players improve their basic stick skills.

The Hockey Ready Position

This video is part of the Coaching Youth Hockey Training Plan. This subscription-based plan includes an entire season of youth hockey drills (over 50 videos!) in an intuitive, week-by-week format. http://www.playsportstv.com/trainingplans
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Coaching Hockey: How to Run an Effective Practice

This video offers some great tips for coaching hockey from a veteran coach. He suggests to keep your players moving at all times and never let kids stand around watching.

Hockey Skating: Skating Drills for Mites and Squirts

This video presents some great hockey skating drills for younger players. A youth coach demonstrates the skills and explains how to use the knee drop, superman and barrel roll skating skills to get young players comfortable on the ice.

Hockey Drills: Partner Stickhandling Drill

For all hockey players, being able to control the puck is a very important skill. One of the best stickhandling hockey drills, it teaches players to keep their heads up as they move the puck around a stationary teammate.

Hockey Drills: 3 v. 3 Cross-Ice Practice

Shorten the playing area for youth hockey players and get everyone involved with a 3-on-3 scrimmage. Coach Guy Gadowski explains how this cross-ice action allows players to practice all facets of their hockey skills.

Hockey Drills: Stickhandling Chaos Drill

In this video, coach Guy Gadowsky demonstrates one of our favorite hockey drills for mite and squirt players. This drill is great for working on stick handling while skating, and also for learning to keep the head up while skating.

Hockey Goalie: The Butterfly Technique

This video provides a great introduction to the butterfly technique for a hockey goalie. In this video, a youth hockey coach breaks down the technique and explains why it's so effective for goaltending.

Open Ice Carry

This video is part of the Coaching Youth Hockey Training Plan. This subscription-based plan includes an entire season of youth hockey drills (over 50 videos!) in an intuitive, week-by-week format. http://www.playsportstv.com/trainingplans
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Hockey Skating: Push-Pull Drill

To develop a strong, powerful hockey skating stride, try the push-pull drill demonstrated in this video. This is a great drill for youth players who want to improve their hockey skating skills on the ice.

Hockey Drills: Passing Progression Drills

This video demonstrates three great hockey drills for developing puck skills and improving passing. The players must make and receive passes from a stationary position, under pressure and while skating forward and backward.

Hockey Skating: Backward Skating Stride

In order to play hockey, all players must be able to skate backwards. When playing defense, it's an essential skill. In this video, a youth hockey coach breaks down the proper hockey skating technique for the backward skating stride.

Hockey Tactics: Face-Offs

The keys to winning a face-off, as this video demonstrates, are reading your opponent, having a plan, and getting leverage. A youth hockey coach explains the hockey tactics you need to think about before the puck is dropped.

Hockey Tactics: The Breakout

Getting the puck out of your defensive zone is one of the keys to winning hockey games. In this video, a youth coach breaks down the hockey tactics for executing a successful breakout from the defensive zone.

Hockey Shooting: Redirecting Passes

An effective hockey shooting technique is to redirect a pass so it goes on net. This video demonstrates a simple play where the defense pass the puck from the blue to a forward down low, who redirects the pass into a shot on goal.

Goaltending: Shuffle-Step and T-Glide

This video is part of the Coaching Youth Hockey Training Plan. This subscription-based plan includes an entire season of youth hockey drills (over 50 videos!) in an intuitive, week-by-week format. http://www.playsportstv.com/trainingplans
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