Dylan Garand Pro Drills Part 3 — Crease Work to Feel Edges, Post Entries and Exits

Our multi-part series with New York Rangers goalie Dylan Garand continues this week as he adds pucks for Part 3 of his hour-long summer skating routine.

Garand made his NHL debut with the Rangers on March 22 and finished his first big-league stint 2-0-1 with a .948 save percentage after that call-up, earning a two-year contract extension from New York this summer. The 23-year-old impressed in that stint with his control, efficiency and edge work, all of which were on display when InGoal Magazine got on the ice with him last summer to capture the routines that have gone into building those strengths during a visit to his hometown of Kamloops, British Columbia.

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 is almost exclusively on skating and movement. We got close to an hour of footage — and just as importantly, Garand reviewing it with us — from that session.

It started with some skating and edgework along the blue line, from one side of the ice to the other, with drills shared by Dustin Wolf, and continued in Part 2 with some pucks on the ice for edgework from the knees.

In Part 3, Garand takes things into the crease, starting with some work around the posts: