Pro Drills with Devon Levi
- The Spin Drill trains goalies to react to a shot immediately after a 180-degree turn, simulating a one-timer with little time to locate the puck.
- Coach Marco Raimondo cues the spin by either calling out or banging his stick, adding an unpredictable auditory element to the drill.
- Devon Levi emphasizes that the drill replicates real-game situations where a goalie lacks time to find 'quiet eye' focus or settle into their stance.
- A key technical focus is preventing the feet from going wide during the spin — goalies must consciously keep feet underneath the body and let the head lead the movement.
- Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Jet Greeves also performed the Spin Drill, with Raimondo framing it around developing instincts, sensing, and using multiple senses to read the game.
The first drill InGoal Magazine reviewed with Devon Levi when we caught up in Kelowna this summer was a skating and edge work warm-up that ended with a series of quick 180-degree spin moves in which he focused on keeping his feet tight underneath him.
This next drill with Levi will starts similarly, but his long-time Montreal-based coach Marco Raimondo adds a reactive wrinkle with a shot that can come from either wing. They call it the “Spin Drill” and it starts with Levi facing the net and Raimondo in the middle with a puck he then passes to a shooter on one side or the other before either calling out or banging his stick, which is the signal for Levi to spin around and find a puck that quickly on its way:
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