A selection of tips in five videos of Carey Price working with young students.

It was tempting to lead into this quick Pro Tips article with an apology for harping so often on some of the basics. This isn’t the first time we’ve run a story featuring NHL goalies reviewing what might seem to a lot young goalies like simple crease movement work.

Given how often Price has listed skating as the most important thing he works on daily, we’re going skip that apology about going back to the basics again, and instead get back to Price and some of the simple skating tips — from leading the movement with your eyes, to stick position on the post — that we captured him delivering to young goalies over the years at the “Day with Price” event with Eli Wilson Goaltending.

We’ll start with a butterfly recovery to the post and push back to the middle to a drop. In this drill from the 2017 camp, Price works with a beginner goaltender and two more experienced goalies. But as you’ll see, the elbow- and stick-position advice on the post and look-before-you-push guidance Price shares during the beginner’s second set applies right up to the NHL:

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