Pro-Tips: Carey Price crease movement, and stick position on post
- Lead crease movement with your eyes before pushing — look to your destination first, then execute the push.
- Proper elbow and stick position on the post is critical and applies from beginner goalies all the way to the NHL level.
- Carey Price credits daily skating and crease movement fundamentals as the single most important part of his training.
- Price incorporates a signature 'Carey Price Kickout' into most recovery drills, even without pucks, as a consistent movement habit.
- Butterfly recovery to the post and push back to the middle is a foundational drill Price uses with goalies of all experience levels.
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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