A step by step guide to winning more face offs
- Have a plan when you approach the face-off dot
- There are many different ways to win a face-off, how you plan to win
the face off depends on where the face-off is taking place. In the
neutral zone you may try something cheeky like tapping the puck forwards
and blasting past the centermen, in your own end you may tie-up the
other centermen and have your defence or winger come in and get the
puck, in the offensize zone you could win the puck back on your
fore-hand, back-hand, between your legs or even put it right on net.
Never approach the face-off without a plan
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- Let your team mates know about your plan
- Think of where you want to win the face-off to, and let your players
know. If you are going to win it back to the defencemen, give a little
wink to the d-man so he knows the puck is coming. If you are going to
tie up the centermen let your players know so they can be prepared.
- Get nice and low
- I probably said this about 20 times in the video, haha. When you are
low to the ice you can react faster to the puck drop and you will be
anchored to the ice. It is important to be nice and stable when the puck
drops in case the other centermen tries to push into the circle.
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