Offensive hockey plays are what makes the game very exciting. As a coach you will have fun teaching them since the player will have fun practicing them. Good offensive plays can lead to very good scoring chances. You must not forget though that even though you might have great offensive plays, you cannot discredit the defensive plays either.
Cross Drop
Cones are placed at points of action to aid skaters. Player A passes to Player B who has skated into the high slot for a criss-cross action. Player B now skates with the puck around the bottom cone heading for the top cone. Player A at the same time is skating around the top cone heading for the bottom cone. Player B makes a drop pass to Player A between the cones, changing the direction of the puck. Player B continues to skate around the top cone while Player A skates around the bottom cone with the puck, both heading for the goal.
It is important that Player B is at least a little further than a goalie stick length from the goalie on the weak side so that a pass can not be poke checked away.
Player A meanwhile is skating to the goal trying to pull the goalie to the strong side and showing that he is going to shoot. If the goalie pulls to the strong side Player A passes to Player B for a one timer in the back door. If the goalie shows a hole then Player A takes the shot.
Russian Weave
Skaters are in 3 lines below the goal line, pucks start in the middle line. Skater 1 passes to Skater 2 wide then follows his pass to Skater 2's lane. Skater 3 skates forward to the blue line for puck support. Skater 2 cuts to the middle and passes to Skater 3. Skater 3 receives and passes the puck wide to Skater 1 and skates to the middle lane as Skater 2 continues to Skater 3's wide lane. Skaters continue to zig zag to the offensive zone and set up a triangle attack on goal. Variations: Regroup in the offensive zone and return to the original starting point goal for the triangle attack. Begin the next group as the 1st group is returning for their attack to create traffic and heads up play.
Cycle Offense
Skaters form 2 lines at center ice. At the directions of the leader the F1 shoots on goal long range. The goalie gains control and throws the puck to any corner he chooses. The strong side F picks up the puck and skates along the boards. The weak side F supports at net then supports in the corner. Strong side F cycles the puck off the boards about the hash mark of the face-off circle and immediately cuts to the net. The weak side F gains control of the puck and immediately gives an area pass to the other F who takes a shot on goal.
These offensive hockey plays will surely help your team with scoring. It will take a little time to learn them but once they players have mastered these plays, you team will be dangerous on offense.
This article is about offensive hockey plays. Three plays are explained so that the coach will be able to teach them to his players.
