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Originally Posted by MacDaddy77
If he shys away from the contact in practice the you are only left with 2 options
1. humiliation (by this I don't mean anyting drastic, but you will have to be vocal in practice and single him out, you don't need to yell or anything but you will have to tell him in from of the team that this is not an acceptable way of competing)
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I would try an avoid this as I don't think Humiliation with a guy that has a shy soft spoken personality. That might scare him off instead of motivating him. You could also try have him practice alone along the boards moving the puck with his skates as if he is in a puck battle to help him build confidence and then when he seems to be doing a good job have a teammate similar size to him tie him along the boards and then when he's confident with that get a bigger teammate to battle along the boards with him etc. etc. Once he gets used to the body contact involved he might be confident in game situations.