Pro Drills with Richard Bachman
- Start rush drills from the red line so goaltenders face realistic rush timing, not stationary shooters.
- Shooters attack just off the boards and shoot short-side low to generate corner rebounds, then attack from an even sharper angle.
- Decide whether to use an overlap based on the angle and situation before the shot, not reactively after it.
- Bump forward out of the RVH if the second attack climbs too high in the zone to maintain proper squareness.
- Back-leg anchor position in the Reverse-VH is critical to stability and effective post coverage.
After working through a couple of variations of crease movement patterns in our first two parts of this progression with Minnesota Wild goaltending development coach Richard Bachman, we moved into a lateral rush drill focused on small shuffles and stance adjustments.
The series concludes with another drill, but this time it incorporates a dead-angle shot too, creating a decision for Vancouver Giants prospect Matthew Hutchison on when (or whether) to use an overlap, and then how to best get re-organized on his post after the initial shot, something that was a focal point in the second crease movement tip in this series.
Bachman walks Hutchison through the decision making and the drill in this first video, including a good discussion on starting rush drills from the same place we would play a rush chance:
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