Passing Warm Up

Drill Diagram

Description

X1 and O1 skate up the ice together crease width apart
X1 starts and passes to O1 who touch passes puck back to X1
Passing continues down the ice to the far blueline
-At the far blueline the puck carrier goes around the circle and the other player skates around the other circle
-On the way back players pass the puck cross ice through groups coming down the middle. Player should have head up and wait for a passing lanes to open up. Should be able to get 2 or 3 cross ice passes in.

Notes: Second group starts when the group a head hits the near blueline.

Tags: -Touch passing up the ice, -Cross ice pass quickly control, get the head up, hard cross ice pass