| Stickhandling Confidence | | | | - Practice |
| Stickhandling, like any other action that's repeated | | | | - Challenges |
| enough, will soon stick. Handling the puck then | | | | - Fun |
| becomes a natural movement or motion. For example, | | | | - Creativity |
| when first born, people don't know how to lift their | | | | - Repetition |
| head up. (some hockey players still don't!) After much | | | | Stick Handling Drills |
| trial and error and repetition, an infant learns how to do | | | | - Mechanically break each motion down to its |
| it and has the confidence not to have to think about it | | | | fundamental parts. |
| or even try to do it. It's as natural as holding a hockey | | | | - Repeat the mechanics relentlessly. |
| stick. Handling the puck with a stick becomes a natural | | | | - Combine the pieces into fluid movement. |
| movement. | | | | - Creatively mix motions together in different |
| | | | combinations. |
| Stick-handling Definition | | | | Hockey players should develop a FEEL of the puck on |
| Ice hockey term for handling the puck with the hockey | | | | the stick blade. With repetition, hands will be able to |
| stick; moving the puck along the ice with the stick, not | | | | sense where the puck is on the blade to control it |
| by pushing the puck, or smacking it, but by short | | | | without having to stare down at it. Can you imagine |
| movements with the front and back of the stick's | | | | the practice, ability, and skill it takes to play hockey in |
| blade. Stickhandling is the most important and most | | | | the NHL like Lance Pitlick did? What are the hockey |
| difficult of all hockey skills. | | | | skills required to play professional hockey, and how |
| Stick handling skills are learned by: | | | | much time would you have to devote to learning |
| - Repetition | | | | them? |