USA Hockey's American Development Model 
10 & Under (10U)

Learn To Train
Ages 9-10 

At this stage, participants continue to develop movement abilities across multiple sports and in a wide variety of environments. In ice hockey, players continue to increase their attunement to the appropriate environmental cues that allow them greater movement adaptability and hockey sense.

In late specialization sports such as ice hockey, early specialization can be detrimental to later stages of development. Participants should develop a solid base in a variety of sports in each of the physical literacy environments (e.g. swimming, athletics, gymnastics & skiing/skating).

10 & Under (Squirts) & 12 & Under (Peewee):

• Continue to develop physical literacy
• Continue to participate in at least 2 or 3 complementary sports
• Participants at this stage should learn basic skating, puck control and team play
• There is no need at this stage to specialize at a specific skater position, however, goalies may begin to focus on their position

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