Hockey Player Magazine

Tag: power skating

  • 5 Hockey Drills to Improve Acceleration

    Speed is important in hockey, but too often players see speed as only going straight down the ice. In hockey you have to be fast in many areas. We need speed in acceleration, crossovers, lateral speed, stopping, turning and transitions. As you can see, there are many areas of your game that you can work…

  • Inline / Rollerblading Drills for Hockey Players

    A big complaint among hockey players in the more remote areas is that there is no place to skate over the summer months. This was certainly a problem for me growing up. I grew up in a small farm town and every arena within 100 kilometers took the ice out from March – September. So…

  • What makes Fedorov such a great skater

    What makes Fedorov such a great skater

    By Robby Glantz I was watching a Detroit Red Wings game recently and I was particularly focused on their star player, Sergei Fedorov. I was interested in trying to understand what makes him so dangerous and explosive on the ice. On might think that because Fedorov is just flat-out faster than everyone else, the opposing…

  • Backing up strong

    By Robby Glantz Oct 23, 2001, 18:17   A common myth in hockey, which I hear repeated quite often, is that only defensemen need to be strong backward skaters. While it is true that, overall, a defenseman will skate greater distances backward than the forward, it is still vital that the forward make every attempt…

  • What you can learn from other sports

    What you can learn from other sports

    By Robby Glantz Oct 23, 2001, 15:00 Robby Glantz At my schools I often show the kids photos of NHL players executing proper techniques in skating. One of the pictures I inevitably display is of that renowned hockey star, Michael Jordan. How’s that? Is he playing hockey now, too? Of course not, but I show…

  • Creating explosive starts

    Creating explosive starts

    By Robby Glantz Fast starts are vitally important in ice hockey. Whenever I work with pro players—from the LA Kings to National Team players in Europe—the skating skill that they like to work on the most is, inevitably, the explosive start. And this holds true whether they are defensemen or forwards. They like to work…