Summary

Recreating a game situation, the 1/4 Ice 2 vs 1 with Backcheck is a sure fire way to bring up your practice's intensity! By beginning the drill in a small area, the forwards are forced to create their lane to the net while the defenders attempt to break the play early.

DESCRIPTION

• D starts on knees, pressures puck and talks with backchecker (X)
• X starts on dot, must tag red line before jumping back in play
• F1 and F2 start with backs touching wall at the blueline
• F1 to break across blue line while F2 strides up wall, and then jumps back into the play via board lane
• Coach blows whistle to activate play, and will pass to either FWD for the rush
• Play it out

KEY POINTS:

• Hard, fast and intense game situation, D must force play

Find this drill in the Minnesota Hockey Drill Share Group on CoachThem.

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