Skills and Concepts

Listed below are some of the skills and concepts participants can focus on during a practice session.  If there are specific topics and skill areas that you would like to target, please discuss your requests with PAH in order to tailor your training session to your particular needs.

PUCK SKILLS
Shooting
    - Wrist shots, Slap Shots, Snap Shots, Backhand Shots
Passing
    - Forehand, Backhand, Saucer, Receiving a pass
Stickhandling
    - Forehand to backhand and vice versa
    - Toe Drag, Backhand Toe Drag
    - Puck flips
Deflections
Face-offs


OFFENSIVE SKILLS
Fakes and dekes
Evasive maneuvers
Puck protection
Offensive attack options
    -Drive the net, delay, cut to middle, 1 vs 1
Odd-man attack options
    -2 vs 1, 3 vs 2, 3 vs 1


SPECIAL TEAMS
Powerplay setups, breakouts and entries
Penalty-kill positioning
Face-off options

SKATING
Technique / Efficiency / Power
    - Forward Stride, Backward skating, Tight turns, Pivoting,                        Quick Starts, Stopping
Edge control
Balance
Agility



DEFENSIVE SKILLS
Proper positioning for Forwards and Defense
Defensive play and positioning along boards
Keys to playing against odd-man attacks
Wingers defensive positioning and play on boards
Defensemen specific evasive maneuvers
Defensemen specific puck-handling
    - Defensive zone, Neutral zone, Offensive zone