High paced conditioning drill to work skating , pivoting and awareness.

Set up as shown, on coaches whistle players closest to net go sprinting to the Blue line and pivot to backwards.

Backward skate down blue line to tire at center ice, next skater goes once the skater in front of him gets to blue line.

At center ice tire come to a complete backwards stop and explode out and around tire at face off dot heading back to blue line again checking yourself into boards and then pivoting and skating backwards down the boards to the goal line.

Sprint back in line to repeat.

Notes: Once each player has done this 2 or 3 times(coaches choice) have players switch sides and repeat

Can also be done with pucks

Tags: Full speed even when going back into line !!!!!!