The 20-minute youth hockey warmup playlist

Minutes 0-6: skate-around openers

Steady tempo while the team gets loose. Nothing that peaks yet.

• Shipping Up to Boston — Dropkick MurphysThe hockey warmup standard for a reason.
• Blitzkrieg Bop — RamonesThe 'hey-ho' chant gets the bench going.
• Song 2 — Blur
• The Hockey Song — Stompin' Tom ConnorsParents in the stands will sing it.

Minutes 6-14: drill music

Bigger energy for passing lines and shooting drills.

• Thunderstruck — AC/DC
• Kernkraft 400 (Sport Chant Remix) — DropgunInstrumental — clean by default.
• Radioactive — Imagine Dragons
• Centuries — Fall Out Boy
• Can't Hold Us (clean version) — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Minutes 14-20: the last song before puck drop

One big track that ends as the goalies get scraped in.

• Enter Sandman — MetallicaThe build times perfectly to the final horn of warmups.
• Seven Nation Army — The White StripesThe riff becomes a crowd hum.
• Chelsea Dagger — The FratellisSave it if it's also your goal song.
• Eye of the Tiger — Survivor

How to run it from the bench

• Line the songs up in order before you get to the rink — you won't have time to search on the ice.
• Twenty minutes is roughly five to six full songs, so a short queue is enough.
• Use clean or instrumental versions; rink speakers carry into the lobby.
• Keep the volume under coaching voices during drills, then bring it up for the last song.
• Reuse the same playlist all season. Players start timing their warmup to it.