Carolina Hurricanes Pro Drills: No Net Needed to Work Recovery and Release Patience
One of our favourite things is seeing NHL goalies and goaltending coaches using the side boards to do drills, just because it’s such a great reminder to younger puck-stoppers who want everything to be perfect that even the best don’t need a net to work on their craft.
Another favourite – and we see it a lot – is seeing those same NHL goalies performing super simple drills, which is a great reminder to goalie parents it doesn’t need to be complicated or have multiple shooters or moving parts to be effective.
Carolina Hurricanes goalie Brandon Bussi and goaltending coach Paul Schonfelder checked both boxes for us with this drill work after morning skate on Tuesday:
“All we’re doing is working on extending that pad, and then after we extend it, getting a push into wherever the rebound goes,” Schonfelder explained. “Sometimes what happens is once we extend that pad, maybe we have the habit of falling backwards on that second chance. Just small little habits to work on, especially after morning skate, where we don’t have a lot of time. But it’s just a small detail in your game if you work on it, we’re just putting information in the computer, right? If we work on it enough, it becomes routine.”
They do the same thing from both sides:
Still ahead in this article:
Schonfelder uses a puck on the ice as a positional marker to simulate a specific shot type — and the habit he's drilling into Bussi for what comes after pad contact is explained in the next section.
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