Teaching to be more aggressive

One of the best players on my team has all the skills to be the best at Atom level, but he is lucking aggression part. Battles, races for the puck - he is afraid to hurt players (told me that last week) and generally too nice of a kid.  
Any ideas how to teach aggression with 10yrs old?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Hartman on January 19, 2011 at 8:40pm

The best advice is to not teach aggression!

Teach him to compete and want the puck and have fun.

Permalink Reply by Scott Killips on February 29, 2012 at 5:49pm

I run several drills where kids have to race thru cones or slalom and whomever is winning the race gets to take the shot, the other has to backckeck.  I also take my top two kids and divide them into two groups, I make them both captains of their group and they pick the rest of the kids to be on their team. From there we do skills comeptitions so that they are encouraging each other as well as trying to push each other to win.  Winners get to lead warm-ups, lead in shoot outs ect. just to add a little incentive. I find it best sometimes to let them try to motivate each other instead of it coming from the coaches all the time.

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