Medicine Ball Builds Stability On Ice
The Toronto Maple Leafs recently broke out the medicine balls for their goalies but it wasn’t in the weight room. No, Joseph Woll and Anthony Stolarz used the medicine ball on the ice, holding it out in front of them while doing crease movement and stopping low shots.
TSN’s Mark Masters shared a couple of video clips from that practice session on X:
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The coach who first brought this drill to InGoal's pages — and the unlikely inspiration behind it — is named just below, along with Curtis Sanford's exact words on what the medicine ball actually fixes in a goalie's movement.
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