Home › Forums › Talk Hockey › Daily Drill Section Fourteen › Reply To: Daily Drill Section Fourteen
Tom MolloyDatsyuk Puck Handling and Scoring
How to score and puck handle.
Datsyuk Dangles.
Lots of thoughts about how to score in a shootout. Some conventional wisdom.
– Shoot where the goalie ain't.
– Shoot where the goalie came from and not where he is going.
– If the goalie is in deep then shoot, if he comes out then deke.
Some players like to make the goalie cover all 6 feet of the net by coming in from the side and getting him to move across the crease then find a hole.
I think the key is take what the goalie gives you. If he has a bad angle, down early, then beat him to the opening or if he/she is square then you have to make her move.
Last night Crosby went in and made a fake left, then right, then back left to get the goalie moving to his right and then shot a backhand where the goalie came from.
One of the best videos I have seen is of Datsyuk on penalty shots and breakaways. He sells a fake and then moves the puck quickly across and shoots, or he sells that he is going from backhand to forehand, slides left and then puts a backhand where the goalie came from. The most common Russian move (I have watched them practice it.) is to fake backhand to freeze the goalie and then quick to the forehand and over the stick side pad. Datsyuk does many of these in the video.
'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'