Pro Drills inspired by Warren Strelow Featuring Sabres Seamus Kotyk and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen photo – Fred Kfoury III/Icon Sportswire
Over the past two weeks we introduced a series of movement drills with Buffalo Sabres puck-stopping prospect Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and their goaltending development coach, Seamus Kotyk, inspired by the late Warren Strelow, a legend in the goalie coach fraternity.
This week, we bring you another drill Strelow and his successor with San Jose Sharks, Wayne Thomas, used to use whenever their goalies started drifting into – and after making – saves.
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Kotyk's exact cue — the one Strelow and Wayne Thomas used to freeze a goalie who was still drifting into shots — involves a stick on the ice, and what Luukkonen does with it is in the next paragraph.
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