Coaching Hockey With Small-Area Games features more than 50 small-area games proven to develop player skills. The games cover all aspects of play, including offensive and defensive skills and tactics, transitions, face-offs, power plays, and penalty killing.

Dave Cameron is the head coach and program director of Jets Hockey Development, a skating and skills coach for Manitoba Moose, and a development coach for Team Canada U17. Also a Hockey Canada skills consultant, he has more than 20 years of experience coaching players of all levels: professionals (NHL, AHL, and ECHL), college athletes, and young athletes just learning to play the game. He has helped many players achieve their goals, including being selected in the WHL Bantam Draft, making the jump to the NCAA, being selected in the NHL Entry Draft, and winning the Stanley Cup. Cameron specializes in individual skill development such as power skating, shooting, stickhandling, passing, and position-specific skills. He believes that confidence is built from practice and players can continue to get better through detailed work in specific areas.

Cameron played minor hockey in the Winnipeg area before moving on to the WHL, where he was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1998 (third round, 80th overall). He returned to Winnipeg to attend the University of Manitoba, where he obtained a degree in kinesiology before starting his coaching career.

Chapter 1. Benefits of Small-Area Games
Chapter 2. Designing Your Own Small-Area Games
Chapter 3. Warm-Up Games
Chapter 4. Offensive and Defensive Games
Chapter 5. Specialty Team Games
Chapter 6. Transition Games
Chapter 7. Face-Off Games
Chapter 8. How to Apply to Game-Like Situations
Chapter 9. Developing Practice Plans From Drills to Small-Area Games