Category: Jeff Lerg
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From The Crease: Reaching for Pucks
By Jeff Lerg – Being a smaller goaltender, I had to develop the skill of reaching for the puck. As shooters increased their shot accuracy and speed over the years, the puck very rarely seemed to just hit me in the chest. Many top-end shooters seemed to eventually find that placing a shot just over…
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From The Crease: The Importance of Developing Both Legs
By Jeff Lerg – As goaltenders practice each day, they develop muscle memory without even thinking about it. Each time a shot is saved, your muscles remember those distinct movements. Your muscles remember all of the movements that are made, so it is important that the good outweighs the bad. An example of the good…
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From The Crease: Maintaining Composure
By Dave DeSander (guest writer) – As a goalie, you have the difficult task of playing the entire game. Not only does playing the entire game require physical demands on the body, but it is also highly stressful and taxing demands of mental composure. It is this mental composure that will very likely be the…
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From The Crease: Sharpen up your game
I have always stressed the importance of skating for goaltenders. The more proficient and more explosive you can move around the net, the better chances you have of making more saves. Here is an article I found in InGoal Magazine, which gives goalies a few basic drills to do in order to develop muscle memory…
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From The Crease: Drills For Explosiveness
I always like to work on the explosiveness in my game in one way or another. Here are some clips of me working on my leg power while moving on my feet. This is a drill that is designed for a goalie to explode forwards and backwards in a very short distance. Make sure to…
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From The Crease: Track, Locate, Control
After countless hours on the ice and in the gym, my body and brain have developed habits that go on display when I hit the ice and pucks start flying at me. Most movements and saves have become second nature and are happening without any thinking at all. To the frustration of everyone, just because…
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From The Crease: Success never rests
By Dave DeSander – Every goalie in the NHL has one thing in common – they’re never satisfied with their current level of success. Over the duration of a long NHL season, goalies will often fall off the wagon of their normal success and find themselves in a slump. The typical fan would say…
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From The Crease: The Equipment Conundrum?
By Jeremy Kaleniecki – It is a well-known fact that each year the NHL evolves. Sometimes there are big changes while other times the changes are small and seemingly unnoticeable. As the game continues to change, everything else has to change with it. The purpose of this article is to discuss not a change, but…
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From The Crease: Taking Ownership of Your Own Destiny
By Rob Liddell – The only way to achieve excellence in goaltending – and life in general – is to expect excellence from yourself. I’m a firm believer in goal-setting, and the power of the mind-body relationship. This begins with taking ownership of your own destiny. In terms of goaltending, this starts with the ability…
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From The Crease: “The Hops”
By Carl Howell – I have seen several young goalies around the state use the “hop” to skip across the crease to gain a new position. I don’t mean a power-shuffle hop; they use a multi-step process to move rather than using the power shuffle, T-push or drop-step T-push. This reminds me of the goalies…