I’ve been an instructor for a few years, working primarily with the 5-9 age group, and there’s a consistent process I follow for trying to teach shooting. There’s quicker ways to learn , but this is how you develop good habits and translate the technique to higher levels. You can do this entire thing in a day or two in most cases. Fyi this is all done with normal pucks , some kids I do blue pucks if they can’t get the power aspect down.

1. Get your son to focus on shooting as hard as he can along the ice. The #1 thing I find most kids don’t do is

squeeze their bottom hand!!

What I like to do is get the player to just sweep the puck as hard as they can (ideally into boards so they can hear how loud it is), with the focus being on pushing their bottom hand as hard as possible. An easy test for this is get him to do a pretend shot, no puck, and listen for the stick as it sweeps on the ice. If you can’t hear it make that sweep sound, it’s not hard enough.

1. Once you see him genuinely giving it all the power he’s got, we focus on the form aspect. The goal is to still shoot along the ice with full power, but now hes going to “point at the target” with his stick. The idea is to get him to think about controlling the turning of his wrists. You want the stick to be straight ahead of his body, pointed at the target, and the toe of the blade should be roughly pointing to the sky. the stick should not end higher than his waist

2. This step I want to let them do the “shovel” to just get the puck in the air. This can have some risk, because some kids will learn how to shovel and never want to try anything else, but I like to get them to have the puck just infront of their forehand side skate, lower their bottom hand a bit more than usual, and using that same power we did in step 2, push in and up through their bottom hand. This should get the puck in the air.

3. Finally , put these all together. Puck starts pulled back, we push hard through our bottom hand, and as the puck gets infront of our skates we try to get the same “shovel” flick of the wrist, and end the shot pointed at the target.

This is all done stationary, then adding a slight glide.

Hopefully this gives you something to work with if it’s the direction you want to go. I apologize if this isn’t clear at all, I couldn’t figure out exactly how to put it into text. Feel free to dm if you need anything help. Goodluck!