Pro Tips: Carey Price Post Play Part 2
- Always look behind the net after widening off the post — creating the short-side window means nothing if you don't actually use it to read the play.
- Carey Price's post-play drill adds a far-side stick save progression before the reverse-VH seal and crease recovery, building realistic game-situation habits.
- Eli Wilson introduces cradle control coaching as part of the drill setup, adding a technical layer to post movement fundamentals.
- Perfect practice — not just repetition — is the core lesson Price reinforces with every goalie in attendance during this drill sequence.
- The lean into the post and clean exit off it are foundational movement patterns Price demonstrates personally before coaching young goalies through the progression.
InGoal recently reviewed a drill sequence with Carey Price that featured a push into the post before widening out and using a short-side window to see behind the net, then dropping into a reverse-VH seal on that post and finally coming up to the top of the crease for a shot.
This time they added a progression to the drill by starting with a low shot to the far side and asking goalies to use their stick to steer it away before initiating that same recovery sequence into — and then back off — the post. Like a lot of the recent drills we have shared from five years at the Eli Wilson Goaltending Day with Price camps, this one again serves to drive home the importance of the movement pattern work that has made the Montreal Canadiens goalie one of the game’s best, and Price himself re-iterates it with his instructions to the young goalies in attendance.
Before we get to those tips from Price, however, let’s start with him demonstrating the drill and an introduction to it from Wilson that includes some good advice on controlling cradles:
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