The most fun set of practices that the Citadelles go through is something akin to a private skills competition. It's usually on slower days, but the team will break up into groups and run through time trial racing drills, accuracy drills, as well as shootouts with an emphasis on style and fancy stickwork over pure success -- no just skating down and taking a wrist-shot here. It isn't the most effective way to practice for the game as it all amounts to what is, in effect, glorified showboating. But, it does have a bit of a psychological use for the team: by letting the best players show off, they set a standard for other players to try to ascend to. It's friendly competition with an emphasis on getting players to try new things and see their own progression by keeping records for players to look back on. When your time was a little lacking at the start of training camp, and then midway through the season you've improved by a full two seconds, it can be an encouraging milestone.