Practice planner

Hockey Practice Planner for Ice Hockey Coaches

NextShift's hockey practice planner helps you build tonight's practice in minutes: pick drills from your library, set the timings, add coaching points and share a clean plan with your staff and players.

Who it's for

Head coaches, assistants and volunteer coaches who plan ice sessions every week and are tired of rebuilding them from scratch in notebooks and spreadsheets.

Build sessions block by block

Warm-up, skills, small-area games, systems and conditioning blocks with running times that add up for you.

  • Drag drills into the session
  • Durations total automatically
  • Coaching points per drill

Reuse what works

Copy last week's practice or start from a template, then change the date, focus and drills.

Rink diagrams included

Every drill carries its diagram, so the plan shows exactly what the players will skate.

Coaching sheets and PDFs

Preview a printable A4 coaching sheet for the bench and export it as a PDF.

Share with players

Publish the plan so players see today's focus and drills before they get on the ice. Drafts stay private until you publish.

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