End to End Defence

Head Instructor: Zach McCullough - Hockey Canada Certified Skills Coach, OHL Barrie Colts Skills Coach & Brody Cadeau

End-to-End Defence Skills is for players aged 9-14 years old. This program will improve a player’s overall ability to play the position. We will continue to build on and teach necessary foundational skating skills important to the game of hockey along with introducing specific skating skills, puck skills, tactics and strategies required of a player to be effective; contributing at the defence position.

Skills that will be taught, corrected and reinforced in this program are:

• Backwards Strides & Crossovers
• Transition
• Walking the Blue Line
• Gap Control and One on Ones
• Retrieving the Puck in the D Zone
• Breakouts
• Overall Positioning