📈 Learn: Get more out of your release with Tim Turk’s breakdown of power, timing, and wrist activation.

🌟 Watch: A coast-to-coast rush, a bar-down wrister, and a defensive stop in the middle of the ice.

📊 Vote: What’s your biggest shooting challenge?

Tim Turk
NHL Shooting Coach

A stronger release takes more than pushing harder. Tim Turk breaks down how your bottom hand, wrists, and stride-leg knee work together to transfer energy into the shot.

Your power hand—the bottom hand—pushes downward to load and bend the stick, creating energy through the shaft.

As you release, Turk emphasizes fully extending your bottom-hand arm at the elbow while straightening your stride-leg knee. Coordinating those movements helps transfer that energy efficiently into the puck.

Finish with a quick wrist snap as the puck leaves the blade to create tighter spin and a more stable, consistent flight path.

More standout work from across the HPC community this week.

Charles Gelinas →
Goes coast to coast on the power play, eludes three defenders—including a check attempt—and slips the puck past the netminder.

Brayden Butler →
Snipes a wrister bar down into the top corner, then breaks out the Superman celebration.

Zachary McKnight →
Delivers a textbook check off the rush as the puck carrier cuts toward the middle.

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