3v3 hockey has done wonders for my 9 y/o daughter's shooting confidence
Honestly, I can’t recommend this format enough for kids who maybe lacked a little puck-carrying or shooting confidence during the winter full ice season. Super fun environment, low stakes, lots of touches, and they get to do it with friends.
She had 1 goal in her first game and only managed a single shot on net. Second game it started clicking and she scored 3 more. Somewhere around then the lightbulb went on: “Wait… I can score here.”
She finished with another 30 goals over the final 5 games, finding new ways of manipulating defenseman to get a clear shooting angle.
Funny enough, she’s actually more of a playmaker in full ice. During her 10U season most of her goals were dekes off the rush. I don’t think she had a wrist-shot goal from outside the low slot all year.
I told her in a fun league like this that if you’ve got the lane, carry it and rip it. Now she’s downstairs every night working on her shot because she’s realizing it can be a real weapon :)