Coaches Info - Daily Hat Trick

What is DHT?

Daily Hat Trick, or DHT, is three daily dryland skill drills for your players to perform. Each drill is illustrated by viewing a short video of a youth hockey player performing it. The drills can all be done in a relatively small area such as a basement or garage or any flat area.

Why DHT?

It is well documented that even star players only have the puck on their stick for about 30 seconds a game. So a 20 minute DHT workout gives the player as much stickhandling practice as 40 games!!

Great shooters and stickhandlers are made, not born. Every player you see with a booming shot and silky smooth stickhandling has put in many many hours of off-ice practice.

DHT provides great ideas and greatly helps the players develop a routine for off-ice skills work. Further, if your team subscribes to "DHT Tracking", you will have a perfect mechanisim that will require and enforce weekly DHT work for your players.

DHT Tracking

To really give your players incentive to do the DHT, you, as a coach, set a minimum number of DHTs (i.e. three) that must be completed by each player every week. Then, subscribe to DHT tracking for your team. Your players then simple use the website to log that they complete the DHT for the day.

Weekly DHT status reports will be emailed to you. You now have a perfect dryland coach and tracking system!