Faceoff Tips

Current and Former Pittsburgh Penguins talk about the art of the face-off and give some strategy for your players.  Watch the video then read my comments below.

Note:  This is not my content. I’m sharing what was found publicly displayed on youtube.com

A couple of thoughts on this.

• In the video Craig talks about if he were on the other side, he would still win it toward his net.  At the youth level I would never recommend that.  I would suggest is to teach your player to read the situation and put a player who would be on the strong side to win the puck back or to the wall on a Defensive face-off
• If in the Offenseive zone, teach them to put a player on his forehand on the inside of the circle so they would have the best shot possible.