Pro Drills with Devon Levi and Marco Raimondo

It was a simple warm-up drill but it wasn’t the usual mindless skating from spot to spot and that’s what we loved about watching Buffalo Sabres rookie Devon Levi and Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greaves working with Levi’s personal goalie coach, Marco Raimondo, for a week in Montreal this summer.

Rather than doing simple crease movement patterns, Raimondo placed two pucks just off the sideboards, about as wide apart as the posts would be. The goalies skated between the two pucks like they were going post to post, making a quick stop on the coach’s stick blade in between, going back to the first puck, then across. By moving that stick blade around, even switching from right- to left-handed, it adds a cognitive processing element to Levi’s warm-up movements.