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Originally Posted by atapene i actually think many players stop the puck too early instead of letting it do as much work as possible by itself, and then using the momentum of the pass in their initial movements.... especially if a team-mate has passed you the puck. hopefully, they put that pass past you for a reason, cos they wanted you to go with it... and often they have a better view of whats around you than you do, as you're looking at the puck to get the pass.
nothing worse than throwing a decent pass for a team-mate to run onto only to have him reach out/back and knock it down as soon as he can reach it, and then see him get destroyed by an opposition player because he's made the puck static and put himself off balance.
controlling the puck like we're talking about is a nice medium between getting control asap and keeping the pucks momentum, i think. i'm all for it. |
This is actually what i'm really after. The mistake I made in my example was knock down the pass. What I should have done is re-direct the momentum and control the puck. WHat I'm thinking is the times to keep the momentum of the puck it might be better to do that mid water rather than letting it hit bottom and chase it. What I would preach in this whole idea is NEVER make the puck static. the ideal in my mind isn't a medium between getting control and keeping momentum, it is controlling WITH momentum AND in the direction you want.
Does that make any sense?
Benson's drill is all about this. Don't just practice knocking down passes, at the worlds level everyone should be reasonably good at that anyway, and as you point out can be a bad choice at times. But practice putting the puck down where you want MOVING in the direction you want, no matter where the puck comes from.
I like it anyway