You have heard of monkey in the middle. Well sometimes the Aurora play the hockey equivalent. The team splits off into groups of 3 and two of the players along the walls will pass to each other while the man in the middle tries to intercept. If he does intercept the puck, he “wins” and trades places with whoever’s pass he picked off, becoming a passer himself. It’s a pretty fun game that develops checking and passing skills which are very useful for successful teams. One time the coach made the “mistake” of placing Kaapo Kampainen and Gudmundur Kristjansson with the rookie Lias Ekholm-Gunnarson putting the youngest player the checker between two of the best passers in the league. It took poor Ekholm-Gunnarson ages to finally stop their ridiculous passes. The coach then decided to start having a bit more fun with it, putting more and more players in between the two until there were four players awkwardly swinging their sticks around trying to bat pucks out of mid-air. It was a lot of laughs and made for some great team bonding.