Hockey Player Magazine

Tag: Shooting

  • How to Work on Your Shot Inside (without breaking stuff!)

    A big problem for a lot of people who want to practice their shot is they do not have the space. In order to work on your shot at home you typically need a hockey net, and a big enough area to practice shooting from a distance. These obstacles usually keep people from practicing their…

  • Combination Drill From Former NHL Player Tony Horacek

    Former NHL player Tony Horacek coaches in our organization and I went out to watch his practice the other night. While watching a really up tempo session I saw his team run this drill and thought it was really excellent and worked on a number of areas of the game. I spoke with Tony about…

  • Advanced shooting training – toe shots, changing the release point, shooting in stride

    If you browse the how to hockey website enough you will find that the fundamentals of every shot have been covered in detail, most of you who have been following how to hockey for a while should have a good grasp on each shot, so now it is time to take your shot to the…

  • DIII Head Coach Jack Arena of Amherst College Offers 4 Small Area Half Ice Drills

    Coach Arena has been the head coach at Amherst University for over 30 years. In 2008-09 he won Coach of the Year honors for NESCAC and New England hockey writers ECAC East. In 2011-12 he won National Coach of the Year honors from the AHCA. I contacted Coach Arena and asked him if he would…

  • Using your Backhand

    By now, you have probably heard about or seen Sidney Crosby’s no look backhand pass.  It was what those in Pittsburgh have become accustomed to seeing from him.  Incredible plays that create opportunity.I’d like to talk a little about this pl…

  • Rick O’Shay Hockey Targeting System

    The Rick O’Shay gives an alternative perspective to the conventional “Shooter Tutor” style, roll-up canvases. The Rick O’Shay is a great hockey targeting system that gives an alternative perspective to the conventional “Shooter Tutor” style, roll-up canvases. Since it’s a 3D mold, there are endless rebound possibilities, which makes for a much more realistic scrimmage…

  • Where to Shoot to Score More Goals

    If you started playing hockey at a young age you probably had a dream to roof the puck. Young hockey players have trouble getting the puck off the ice, but once they learn how to shoot high it’s almost the only place they shoot. At a young age it is not a bad idea to…

  • Product Review: Shooting Pad & Passing Kit

    I’m a big proponent of ‘off-rink’ workouts.  Stickhandling, passing and shooting are critical parts of the game and ones that I stress to my players that they must practice on their own.  In the product review, I’ll demo the Hockey Passing Ki…

  • Shooters Illusion – See the Net Through the Eyes of the Puck

    In this article and video I am going to share a big tip that will help you score more goals. This is something that is very simple to implement, yet quite a few people don’t actually realize this until they have been playing hockey for a long time. This is something that continually helps me…

  • How to Improve the Power of Every Shot in Hockey

    After coaching hockey for a number of years and working at a hockey camp I have noticed a number of common mistakes that hockey players make that are easy to fix and are robbing them of power. In fact I was making these same mistakes with 20+ years of hockey experience under my belt, and…