Dylan Garand Pro Drills – Rangers Rookie Shares Edge Work Routine from Dustin Wolf
How a Rangers rookie rebuilt his edges with Dustin Wolf — and what to copy in your own warm-up.
- Garand has used the same pre-stretch warm-up movement routine since age 14 — and the reason he started it is surprisingly simple.
- Dustin Wolf didn't just skate with Garand — he sent him footage. What that footage showed is detailed inside.
- The specific blue-line edge drill Garand learned from Wolf, and how he sequences it into his warm-up, is broken down in the full article.
- Garand's offseason focus with Dan De Palma is almost exclusively on skating and movement — not saves, not positioning.
- InGoal captured close to an hour of on-ice footage and Garand reviewing it in real time — the drill-by-drill breakdown follows below.
Dylan Garand made his NHL debut with the New York Rangers on March 22 and finished his first big league stint 2-0-1 with a .948 save percentage after that late-season call up.
The 23-year-old impressed with his control, efficiency and edge work, and InGoal Magazine was lucky enough to be on the ice to capture the roots and routines that have gone into building those strengths during a visit to his hometown of Kamloops, British Columbia last summer. Garand said on Episode 320 of the InGoal Radio Podcast, which was recorded during that visit, that his offseason focus with long-time goalie coach Dan De Palma, who coaches the WHL Kamloops Blazers and Canada’s World Junior and under-18 teams, is almost exclusively on skating and movement, including drills he learned from Dustin Wolf of the Calgary Flames while skating together over the past couple summers.
We’ve got close to an hour of footage — and just as importantly, Garand reviewing it with us — from that session, and we’ll start by sharing the beginning of his warm-up. As Garand told us, it’s not just movement for the sake of warming up; it is all done with purpose.
“Absolutely, and you’ll see (in later videos) where I’m skating at center ice, the movement patterns, this stuff makes it feel way better,” Garand said.
It starts against the boards at center with crease-style movements before Garand stretches out his legs, groins and hips for a couple of minutes on the ice. InGoal was still setting up the cameras and only captured a short portion, but as you’ll hear below that’s OK.
The warm-up starts at center ice against the boards — but the drill Garand does first, the one he's repeated in the same spot since he was 14 at Delta Academy, is the next thing described.
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