Mark Carlson weaves fun and aggressiveness into 12 highly competitive games where there is a winner and a loser.

Carlson offers marker board diagrams and fully explains the execution, purpose and benefits of each game prior to moving to on-ice demonstration with his players.

His games include:

• Last Man Standing - A passing and receiving elimination game that drills good hard passing and puck control.
• Net Game - A coach-scored game that focuses on conditioning, competitiveness, speed and puck control.
• Crease Game - This game creates a battle to get into the paint while controlling the puck.
• 2-on-0 Scoring (Game 1) - This highly competitive small ice game focuses on scoring goals.
• 2-on-0 Scoring (Game 2) - This full ice game requires two goals to be scored to earn one point. Great for conditioning, puck control, shooting and goal tending work.
• Stop and Start Scoring Game - Trains individual skill play while combining conditioning with detail. The game forces players to focus under duress and fatigue. The game's skill set includes goaltending, start and stop skills, breakaways, puck control, dekes and fakes.
• 15 10 Drill - This forwards vs. the goalie and defensemen game creates 2-on-0, 2-on-1, 3-on-2 and breakaway situations.
• 3 Puck Breakaway - This game drills combines shooting and goal tending with great conditioning value.
• 4-on-3 Small Area - This game works on battling with body contact and promotes good tight defending. A great way to evaluate your players' hockey sense, awareness and vision.
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• Net Game - Played in one zone with three nets in play. This game features strategy, quick puck play accountability and defending in a fast and chaotic atmosphere.
• Nowhere to Hide - A 1-on-1 battle in a small confined corner area with a goalie. Forces tough nose to nose battle with focus on getting to the net front to score a goal.
• 4-on-2 Goal Scoring Game - The focus is on front net pressure for both the offense and defenders.

These games are sure to assist you in developing a fun, competitive practice environment with high energy battles that focus on winning!

45 minutes. 2010.

Improve your team's game-time performance with these up-tempo practice drills.

This DVD presentation includes 15 drills plus variations giving you numerous drills to incorporate into your practices. Coaches O'Connell and Leplante draw up detailed diagrams of each drill followed by video clips of the drills being run in a live Northeastern practice. Pick up key tips as Coach Cronin coaches his athletes through the drills.

These drills work on critical hockey skills and concepts such as driving to the net, rush concepts, cycling, regroups, shot blocking, goalie warmup, tracking the puck, odd man rushes, penalty killing and much more.

Many of these drills simultaneously work on offensive and defensive concepts to provide efficiency in your practice planning.

Give your players the tools they need to be successful in live competition using the drills, concepts and coaching points from Greg Cronin and the Northeastern hockey program.

78 minutes. 2010.

Teach your players to perform essential hockey skills at high speeds in confined areas.

Jim Johnson, a 13-year veteran of the NHL, believes that presenting competitive play in confined areas in practice will have tremendous carry over into game situations. These games promote problem solving, create a fun atmosphere, encourage creativity, simulate game like situations and provides instructional practice time for problem solving.

Johnson shows you 10 confined area games you can easily implement into your practice. Johnson discusses ways to vary the drills to make them adaptable to any team or situation. Each game has a specific skill theme that include passing, puck protection, breakouts, 2-on-2, 3-on-2, transition, defensive zone coverage, low zone play, 4-on-2, competitive goal tending play and reading and reacting. Johnson diagrams and explains each drill to make implementation simple.

Using these games will enable you to simulate game-like, competitive situations in your practices while maximizing touches for your players!

46 minutes. 2009.