Pro Drills with Devon Levi
- Stay on your feet when shooters are on their strong sides — the longer pass travel time means you have more room to move efficiently without dropping to a butterfly recovery.
- Control your depth deliberately: Raimondo teaches that where you stand is the one variable a goalie can always control, and it creates time to read the play.
- Maintain pace even with extra time — Raimondo stresses arriving early and 'in one piece and quiet' regardless of how much time the play gives you.
- Progress drills from programmed detail work toward reactive play by introducing rebound situations as skills become automatic.
- Efficient movement beats hyper-speed movement — Levi notes that after high-intensity reps, this drill 'feels really slow,' reinforcing that calmness and footwork quality matter more than raw speed.
The last entry into our Pro Drills series with Devon Levi and his long-time Montreal-based goalie coach, Marco Raimondo, started with Levi on his knees and the coach passing to one-timer options on either side. As we continue with Part 2, Levi gets to start from his skates and the shooters are on their strong side instead of their one-timer sides.
That combination gives Levi more time, not only because he is starting from his skates rather than with a recovery out of the butterfly, but also because the passes have to travel further across the bodies of the shooter and release inherently takes a little longer.
The focus, however, does not change.
“It’s a little bit more time,” Raimondo said, “But we still want to be early, still want to keep pushing our pace, being there as quick as we possibly can, in one piece and quiet.”
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