I love small area games and believe in the benefits attributed to a variety of different skills and game situations. The abundance of individual puck touches and varying skating strides lead to developing vital skills required to be productive at the next level.
Some of these are translatable skills and they’ll be necessary at higher levels.
Individual skills used in repetition in a confined area mimic essential skills in game situations, and the one skill I consider to be most important: first two-step acceleration.
To get to the next level, players have to adapt their skillset to the pace of play. As the tiers get higher, so too does the limitations on space.
Pace is the most essential item to overcome.
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Gus Katsaros
Gus Katsaros is the Director of Analytics with the Owen Sound Attack and NHL Analyst with McKeen's Hockey and NBC Rotoworld. He also contributes to the popular Toronto Maple Leafs blog post, Mapleleafshotstove.com.
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