Skills Sessions
Take your game to the next level with Top Shelf Hockey’s Sunday Skills sessions. During these ice times, our instructors break down key elements of the game into precise movements that will improve each player’s strength, speed, agility and explosiveness. The skills sessions will cover:
Power Skating
Top Shelf power skating is designed to improve speed, acceleration, power and agility of the skating stride. During the sessions, we will work on each player’s:
- Forward and backward striding
- Forward and backward starting quickness
- Inside and outside edge work
- Pivoting and transitional skating
- Foot quickness
- Crossover acceleration and lateral mobility
- Stopping, turning and pivoting
- Backward quickness
Scoring & Stickhandling
Our scoring and stickhandling sessions will teach players to dangle with the puck and fire it like a pro. They’ll learn to blast different types of shots while transfering their weight to achieve maximum velocity. Specific shooting skills covered will include:
- Wrist shot
- Slap shot
- Snap shot
- Backhand shot
- Shooting for accuracy
- Shooting while moving
- Shooting through traffic
- Shooting for the rebound
- Shooting out of a pivot
Passing
We’ll teach players to delivery and receive passes with authority and precision by working on:
- Forehand delivery and receiving
- Backhand delivery and receiving
- Leading skaters
- Delivering and receiving passes in traffic
- Bank passes
