Master Angling to Limit Your Opponents Time and Space While Minimizing Scoring Chances Against

Today’s hockey drill is designed to help you refine your angling ability, effectively reducing your opponents time and space while steering them into less-risky areas of the ice.

From: Original drill posted by southcoast.hockey, additional analysis and commentary by Brandon Rubeo of Quest Hockey

🎯 Hockey Skills Targeted:

• Angling

📕 What You’ll Learn:

• How to force opponents into low-risk areas of the ice

• Ideal angling body and stick position

• Optional drill variations to simulate game pressure

🧠 Why Work On Angling:

• Angling is a skilled used in all three zones.

• Angling reduces, or eliminates, chances against by taking away your opponent’s time and space.

• Angling minimizes the quality of the chances against by directing the puck carrier into less-risky areas of the ice.

🛠️ Equipment Needed:

• Two (version 1) or three (version 2) players:

  • Version 1: puck-carrier trying to score and a defender trying to angle their time and space away.

  • Version 2: puck-carrier trying to score, a defender trying to angle their time and space away, and a second forward joining along the far wall as the puck-carrier brings the puck out of the zone and prepares to attack, creating a 2-on-1.

• A net, or you could designate an area of the ice as the ‘goal,’ i.e. like an endzone in football.

• Optional:

  • Two cones or some other accessories/barriers (the coach from the original video used gloves) for players to skate around initially to create a gap.

  • Another accessory/barrier (the coach from the original video used a stick) for the puck-carrier to skate up above while the defender stays below.

*Full drill description, tips, and optional add-ons below the video.

VIDEO: Angling Drill to Steer Opponents Away from High-Danger Areas

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