Backchecking flow drills
Description
Diagram 1:
To start F's leave together, skate around the circle pick up a puck as shown.
D's time there skate, skate up to the red line pivot backwards to play 1 - 1 (gap control)
During the 1 on 1 diagram 2 initiates.
Coach blows his whistle during the 1 - 1 signaling F's to shoot quick
It also starts the next group of F's and D's working the same pattern as diagram 1.
However now the D who just completed the 1 - 1 jump into the play and skate hard to the other end to join the F in a 2 - 1.
The F who was with the initial D during the 1 on 1 back checks and ties up the D.
Drill is perpetual.
Tags: Hard Back Check, Tie up the stick, Timing