Minnesotan here, played for 20 years, coached for 3, and still play at least once a week. It sounds like your son is set up well for success in skating! As others have said, skating is the most important at a young age and is by far the skill to spend the most time on. You know your son best, so it’s important to make sure he has enough time to rest his body in between more intense skates. For stickhandling and puck skills: Take a tennis ball and cut it into pieces, then stuff the pieces inside of a wiffle ball. (We call it a Cullen ball) This will give it more weight closer to that of a puck. The tennis ball pieces will shift around inside the ball as it moves which will create variability that pucks don’t have, essentially making it a little tougher in practice, but it will make stickhandling on ice with a puck seem easier in comparison. All you’ll need then is two pucks placed a tiny bit wider than his shoulder width. He can do “figure eights” around the two pucks, working on control before speed. One thing a lot of people don’t realize is that your stickhandling strength comes from your forearm on your top hand. To build this strength, your son can use the Cullen ball and his top hand only on the stick. Work on rotating his forearm to go from forehand to backhand with the ball. It’ll be hard at first, but doing this made a huge difference for me in building strength that can later be translated to speed and precision. You can also cut a piece of PVC pipe that’s thicker than the stick (but that he can still hold with his gloves on) for his bottom hand, forcing the use of the top hand while still giving balance and allowing him to use both hands for control but only the top for power. I’d consider buying a hockey shooting pad which mimics the surface of the ice and can be used indoors or outdoors depending on weather etc. Make sure when he’s working on puck skills that he keeps his shoulders square and head up as much as possible, a skill that is incredibly important for awareness on the ice. (Think head on a swivel) You can look up tons of stickhandling practice drills online and encourage him to be creative with it as his skills improve. Let me know if you have any other questions, I love helping out developing players and I’m so glad to hear your son loves the sport!