Top 5 Worst Drills of All Time

This next verse is dedicated to the people in my life with nothing better to do after hockey than coach. With the exception of ex-NHLers, actually good coaches, and possibly me if I ever end up coaching... So question. How can an entire season with countless hours of practice, tonnes of work put in, lots of times watching Dumb and Dumber or going on Cruise Control (Tom Cruise movies) on road trips, blood, sweat, and tears leave you with an unimproved, unintense, and uninspired team?
Alan Iverson knows how...
5) 3 on 0's... there's nothing worse than doing something, or a combination of somethings, that you will never ever EVER see in a game. Especially a drill where you don't have to try.. don't have to go full speed.. don't have to think.. but do end up making a thousand passes/drop passes near the goalie all in hopes of a back door wide open net for the trailer. I can't say enough about how much I hate this drill... rivals only my hatred for the uncoordinated traffic lights that are South East Regina... It rattles me having to think about it to be honest. So congratulations coach and worst city planner of all time... You just wasted 15 minutes of my life and I have gone absolutely nowhere. Why don't you go off the ice now and have your players max out on bench and squats right, especially if you're right in the middle of season and have a game in 2 days...
4) 2 on 0's... This is just a continuation of #5 with all of the best parts of #5 taken out. Cause 2 on 0's are usually the drills where the coach tells you to do something stupid... like you get one pass across the blue and then you have to shoot.. or stay outside the dots the whole way down and get an outside shot (which is slightly better but only marginally so). Thus the only actual benefit from this drill (learning how to be automatic on 2 on 0's for the 0.001 times you might see it in a game) has now been taken away from you. It's like a person giving you the guitar and then telling you you can only play 3 chords: C,F, and G... or that you can only play songs that have already been made, you just play them again, only slightly different. Thus, sadly, you've already been cornered into the life of a multi-millionaire, platinum selling pop-music artist... when all you really wanted to be was a counter-culture unknown, playing in smoke-filled bars for $100 a gig in between your job as a waiter and a gas-pumper at the local Petrol.
3) The full ice horseshoe warmup drill... The go-to warm up drill for almost any coach in any level. The most mindnumbing drill in the world. Is a death trap to any player waiting in line behind the net if players miss high wide side on their shots. Is another opportunity to practice not scoring. And is yet again a chance to do things in practice that you will never do in a game. You have 20 players and a full ice surface... use your imagination... ask yourself... what would Brian Boitano do?
2) "Flow" drills or any rush drill where you don't play the rebound... I don't know how many times I see players not stop at the net to play the rebound in a game and miss an easy rebound goal... all because in practice they're used to taking a shot, turning into the corner, and going back to the back of the line to keep the "flow" of these "flow" drills going... Lest we forget that a garbage goal, third rebound chance from behind the net counts just the same as a pretty give and go backdoor pretty goal. "Flow" should be reserved only in reference to very cool and very awesome hockey hair or jokes about golf from Happy Gilmore. Remember... "Scouts don't ask how... they ask how many."
1) The infamous Peewee behind the net intimidation drill... to prove that you're not afraid of hitting and getting hit. You put a puck behind the net, line up a player on each circle, blow the whistle and they pretty much go full speed at each other to see who wins the puck, and who's afraid... Most of the time run by coaches scared of this drill when they were a kid. It'd be like me incorporating a fighting drill in the middle of practice. The drill is setup similar conditions to the infamous "bag skate" where the players have to skate until a few players start to throw up, except this drill is done until a few players separate or dislocate their shoulders. And I say a few because I can definitely remember a few times when we kept on with the drill even after we saw one or two players skate off to the dressing room.