Goalie Screen Drills: (ab)using your partner, and a few props (feat. Lehtonen & Lindback)

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  • čas přidán 26. 09. 2012
  • One of the drills we used frequently at the GBHA Goalie Skills sessions is credited to former Pittsburgh Penguins' goalie and current Metallurg Magnitogorsk goaltending coach Tom Barrasso: the 'Barrasso Screen Drill' in which one goalie (with or without a stick) attempts to screen a partner. Three versions of this are shown in the video: a static drill, with both goalies standing still, facing a single fixed shooter; a dynamic drill with a static screen, in which the active goalie skates into the screen, simulating a backdoor threat at the side of the crease turning into a screen as the play moves; and a fully dynamic drill, in which Kari Lehtonen and Johan Hedberg take turns screening each other as one tries to track the puck across the moving pointmen, setting up one-timers. (The static drills can also make use of a tall, skinny screen board with roughly human dimensions, often called a 'Chara board'; we used to have one of these at the GBHA, until someone 'misplaced' it.)
    We also use a 'carwash' style screen at the GBHA, demonstrated here by Mont Sherar and originally invented by Mitch Korn when he was coaching at the University of Miami. (Fortunately, this is not so easy to 'misplace.') As the video shows, this prop allows high shots through a screen with no risk of blocking or deflection, which is sometimes (but not always) a desirable training approach: it lets the goalie focus on working through the visual screen.
    Finally, Mitch Korn shows off three drills featuring Anders Lindback that can be done using a classic screen board (seen here, and which he also invented) or a carwash, or with a partner: a simple low-shot drill under the screen; a drill in which the goalie makes an exaggerated challenge out to the screen, then has to face a low shot while retreating at full speed; and finally, a drill where the screened shooter can either pass from behind the screen to a secondary shooter, or attempt to generate a rebound to the secondary shooter.
    Featuring a selection of video from Brule Hockey, the Nova Scotia Goaltending Academy (NGSA), the Atlanta Thrashers' practices from January 2008, Mont 'Montster' Sherar's Goalie Academy (MGA) in Denmark, and the legendary Mitch Korn's work with the Nashville Predators' Anders Lindback at their 2010 prospect camp: edited and posted here for the purposes of education and criticism.
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