Fun Hockey Games to Play

Fun hockey games to play are designed to help improve your basic hockey fundamentals as well as to keep you entertained. While many hockey games can be reduced down to basic shooting and defensive drills, numerous full team hockey games are available that will help prepare you for competitive hockey play.

Shootout Game

A shootout game is designed to improve your break away skills as well as your one on one shooting skills. Have a goalie stand at the goal and skate out to center ice. Pick one of your teammate to play against in the shootout. Place a hockey puck on the ground and skate toward the goal. Take a shot at the goal from any position on the rink. If you make the shot, you get one point. Take turns between you and your opponent. The first player to five goals wins the shootout.

Best Goalie Game

This game is designed to improve your goal-tending abilities. Stand in front of a net and have the rest of your friends skate to center court. On your mark, have one teammate skate up and attempt a shot on goal. Try and block his shot by staying low and using either your glove hand or stick side. Have the other skaters take turns shooting on you until 10 shots have been hit at you. From here, have the other players take turns blocking 10 shots on goal. The player with the most stops wins.

Blindfolded Hockey Game

This game will help you improve your shooting touch and feel while in the rink. Have a goalie stand in front of the net and have the rest of your teammates form a straight line, starting 10 feet in front of the goalie. Have the first player in line face the goal with a hockey stick and a puck on the floor. Place a blindfold over his eyes and let him take a shot at the goal. The first player to make a blindfolded shot wins.

Scrimmage

This hockey game will help you with respect to in-game situations. Grab five players and divide into two teams of three. Without goalies, place a hockey puck in the center of the rink and have the two teams play a full ice hockey game. Practice passing, skating and communicating with your teammates to get open shots on goal. Because there are no goalies, there will be more goals and, as a result, the game should be given a point limit.