First game in the books!
and...
What is this feeling? a W?
So it didnt go as bad as i thought yall. Well mostly because no one wanted to play D so they decided to run with 4 lines at forward.
How I felt inside since im the one that brought the line combinations up knowing damn well I wanted to play D.
Game went smooth! Played D still cant skate backwards for **** or turn around on my left side. But i did make little changes to how i play to help with that. Will play D all season so hope to improve. Had a few bad passes expecting my D partner to be somewhere he wasnt but luckily hes a buddy of mine. So after the game we started to work on some strategy.
Team overall is finally a good combo. Our goalies are pretty good and we had some forwards that def back checked and helped out on D. We won 6-3. I had a few shots but i really need to work on my shooting from so far out. I have no clapper so most shots were weak and i didnt do so well with getting them thru traffic. I couldnt find a lane and felt it was because id take to long to let go of the shot. With it being a weak wrist shot i didnt create much rebounds for team to score on.
I do play on my offside (left) being RH i had to catch pucks from boards on my back hand which caused me some problems.
I really need to work on my shot any tips? Also any tips for finding lanes?
Congrats on the W!
Regarding your shots, without seeing you play, its hard to recommend/suggest things. But, if you are able to practice at home, that would help. You can watch YouTube videos as well, and during warmies, apply what you watched against the boards and eventually your goalie(s).
Take this advice with a grain of salt, but here is what I have done over the years.
Besides using your backhand side of your stick to retrieve the puck off a rim-around on the boards, get your butt against the boards, with the heels of your skates flush to the boards too, I do that from time to time when playing my off side and it works to keep the puck in the zone and usually it will carom towards the middle of the ice (depending on the angle of your skate).
Shooting lanes, this might be a little tricky since you are playing on your off hand, and can't really "walk the blue line".
• I'm LH, and play the left side, so I'm able to receive a pass off the boards and skate backwards towards the center of the ice a bit and shoot when ready.
• Another thing I like to do is wait for traffic to develop (if time permits) and then let the shot fly. You can change your angle of attack by moving towards the center of the ice, or away from the center.
• Most times you'll have an opposing forward in front of you, if you can do a small dangle around him and then take a couple strides closer to the goal, that is another strategy.
• Another thing to try is, you can wind up like you are going to take a slap shot, and watch if the forward kind of tenses up/freezes with their stick in front of them perpendicular to their skates, if they do, either toe drag the puck back towards you and take a stride or two forward, or simply just push the puck right at and through their feet and get by them that way.
• I've also been doing a lot of shot-passes recently, often times you'll see a forward on your team just off to the side of the net, get the puck in there and hope they can deflect it in.
Bottom line is, keep thorwing the puck at the net and weird stuff will happen, and sometimes it will go in!
