Hockey Practice Guide provides Hockey Coaches Multi-Station layout drills for hockey practices to maximize hockey player skills and coaching efficiency
Hockey Practice time is hard to come by and/ or
very expensive.
Associations:
Provide your hockey coaches with the tools to be
effective.
  • For a few dollars per hockey player
  • Provide your coaching staff with the Hockey Practice Guide
    system to maximize effective and efficient player
    development and practice ice usage.  

A poorly run hockey practice is expensive... For a hockey
team with 50...  1 hour hockey practices in a season.
  • If 9 minutes per hockey practice are idle at $200 per hour
    that is equivalent to wasting $1500 or 7.5 extra hockey
    practices
  • Multiple $1500 by the number of hockey teams in your
    association... You can quickly see the opportunity!
  • If you pay more for ice, have longer hockey practices or
    more idle time the opportunity is even greater.
Minutes
Idle/ Ice
Cost
 
3 min
6 min
9 min
12 min
15 min
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
$100
 
$250
$500
$750
$1000
$1250
$150
 
$375
$750
$1125
$1500
$1875
$200
 
$500
$1000
$1500
$2000
$2500
$250
 
$625
$1250
$1875
$2500
$3125
$300
 
$750
$1500
$2250
$3000
$3750
$350
 
$875
$1750
$2625
$3500
$4375
60 minute practice
Hockey studies available on the Internet state ...
1 effective hockey practice is equal to 11 hockey
games in developing hockey player skills!
 

The average hockey player only has the puck for approx.
20 - 30  seconds in a hockey game.

Remember the 7.5 hockey practices you just found
above... That's equivalent to over 80 additional
hockey games in developing player skills!
Test: attend a few hockey practices with a stop watch and
time a player to see how active they are in a structured
drill vs waiting in line, stretching, listening to coach, etc.
from the time the Zamboni doors close until they open to
resurface the ice.
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The largest cost component to most hockey programs.  
Whether your teams share the ice or have access to a
full sheet of ice..
  • It is important that the use of practice ice time is
    optimized to allow for maximum hockey player drill
    repetition.
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