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Tag: skating

  • How to Improve Skating Acceleration

    When you are in a game one of the biggest advantages that you can have over your opponent is quick acceleration. Your ability to quickly go from coasting to full speed will help you win foot races, out-skate your opponent, get more loose pucks and get more opportunities to shoot and score. Speed is a…

  • Goalie Iron Cross

    Drill: Goalie starts in the center circle and forward skates to the top of the circle.   Goalie drops and covers 5 hole.Then a right leg pad kickThen a left leg pad kick Skate backwards to the center, repeat step 2 Slide to the left, repe…

  • 5-Card Skating Drill

    5-Card Skating Drill 5-Card Skating is a great drill my assistant coach, Ryan Newton, came up with. I like this one because it lets you work on the defensive zone coverage skating patterns while getting some conditioning in. Here’s the diagram: 5-Card Skating Drill 1. Players start in 5-card formation 2. On whistle, each position…

  • Pre-Practice Skating Drills

    Here are a few pre-practice skating drills I like to use to get the players and goaltenders warmed up. Each drill has the goaltenders doing goaltender specific skating drills instead of skating with the team. As we all know goaltenders very rarely need to skate the length of the ice or do transition moves, so…

  • How to Gain On-Ice Speed with Off-Ice Training

    By Jarod Palmer, Minnesota Wild Player Note: HUGE thanks to Jarod for writing this article for How To Hockey. This article is a detailed account of how he got his speed up to NHL standards. If you want to say thanks you can tweet this article and mention him https://twitter.com/#!/palmfisher I have always been a…

  • Forward Crossovers Basics

    We have had a lot of requests for more skating videos and articles so here is one for forward skating, we have some basic articles already for how to skate and how to stop, so this one seemed like the net logical video / article to publish. In this video we show you the basics…

  • 1 on 1 Agility Skating

    Drill: Players start at the wall On the whistle, they skate toward the opposite side of the circle Next the transition into a backward skate around the circle Now it’s a 1 on 1 battle for the puck Focus: Quick start and transition to …

  • Ready… Set… Stop!

    Ready… Set… Stop!

    Ready… Set… Stop! By Robby Glantz Nov 6, 2001, 20:29 Yzerman: A skilled stopper. ©BBS If you are a frequent reader of this column, you are no doubt aware that I am constantly striving to teach you what it takes to attain more speed while skating. And hopefully, by now, you are beginning to master…

  • Skating with the Ref

    Skating with the Ref

    Skating with the Ref By Alex Carswell Nov 6, 2001, 19:24 Leary can poke check too. ©BBS Hey, you. Yeah, you, with your nose in the magazine. Who do you think of when I say “in-your-face” hockey? Huh? Cam Neely? Marty McSorley? Ulf Samuelsson? Try Denis Leary. You know, that guy in the Bruins jersey…

  • Lateral Movement

    This week’s video covers some easy to run drills to improve your lateral movement.  Whether it be on the playing a rush as a defensemen, or making a move as a forward, lateral movement is important to develop in all players. Key PointsGood…