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Blog 1 - Shot Quality / Shot Selection
- Not all shots are intended to score on the first attempt. From bad angles and distances what matters is the type of scoring options your shot creates: tips, rebounds, extended offensive pressure. "Shot Recoverability" is the term for how easy/hard it is for the other team to contain your shot. We need to use the right type of shot in the right situation, do not try to snipe top corners when the distance and lack of traffic leads to an easy save and no rebound. Shoot low for a rebound or tip instead, with the added benefit that your chance of missing the net on low shots is limited to missing wide only.
- Deceptive shooting comes from changing the angle of the shot, such as by pulling the puck in towards the skates before shooting, and from disguising the shot release, such as by shooting in stride. Need to be able to shoot off either foot while still skating. Deceptive shots are harder for the goalie to save, harder for the goalie to control the rebound, and harder for the defenders to block.
Blog 2 - Soft Catch
- Goal is to catch the puck silently.
- Use the soft catch in a shot for a quick release. One motion, thought process of shoot out of the soft catch, different thought process than catch and shoot separately.
- Use soft catch as the first move in a sequence of stickhandles. Useful in high traffic situation (Kane)
Blog 3 - Offensive Timing & Taking Back Ice
- Offensive Timing: Arrive at the right place, at the right time, with the right amount of speed
- Better to be late than early, don't want to have to stop or limit the passing options. Taking back ice allows you to build more speed and to give more passing options (aka avoid being early.) This is done by dipping down below the level of the pass, using crossovers, etc. Sometimes taking back ice and skating away from the puck is the only way to build speed and avoid getting stuck without space after receiving the pass
- Hound vs Spider - Hound receives puck because of effort, winning races, straight line speed. Spider relies on timing and positioning to be in the middle of the web, plays come through him.
Blog 4 - Speed Behind the Puck
- Related to taking Back Ice. If you are above the puck, you will often be covered by defenseman (they have a proper gap) and you have to also worry about offsides. If you can build speed behind the puck you often catch their d with an improper gap (too big of a gap) and they will have a speed disadvantage
- Struggling players press, which leads to getting above the puck, and now its both harder for you to get the puck and harder for you to be dangerous after you get it. The homerun pass can work, but against good D it will be covered, and actually used as a decoy forward (NHL Power Plays)
- If we don't have speed behind the puck, especially if both of our forwards without the puck are stuck waiting on the offensive blue line, its time to dump it in deep, or play it back to our D and reset (take back ice.) We don't want to try to stickhandle through the neutral zone without speed if our other forwards are above the puck.
Blog 5 - How to Measure Your Game
- Use video to quantify aspects of your game. How often did you turn over the puck? How many shots did you take? Etc.
Blog 6 - Multiple Pucks
- Incorporate multiple pucks into drills and skill development. Three man weave with 2 pucks. Stick handle a puck while keeping one in skates.
- Benefits: Helps separate upper and lower body, "forward thinking" - must plan ahead where pucks are going.
Blog 7 - Shooting In Stride
- Timing of Shot - Shot is released when foot is landing. Landing puts downward pressure on stick, flexing the stick.
- If you are trying to beat a defenseman wide on your strong side but can't get the corner, try shooting in stride which might surprise the goalie. Also has less chance of being blocked by a defenseman (benefit of deception)
- Shooting in stride out of a pass - Soft catch on one foot and release on next step. Need to be able to do this off either foot.
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