📈 Learn: How multiple shooting formations can make you a more versatile and less predictable scorer.

🌟 Watch: A remarkable recovery save, a high-glove snipe, and a shootout winner.

📊 Vote: Which shooting skill needs the most work right now?

Tim Turk
NHL Shooting Coach

Most players practice their shot from a strong, controlled base. Games rarely provide that perfect setup.

Tim Turk breaks down three goals from Jakob Chychrun in one game for the Arizona Coyotes. Each goal comes from a different lower-body formation:

The stride formation provides the foundation. It establishes posture, hip and shoulder positioning, and a strong base from which players can develop other shooting variations.

Learning to shoot from multiple formations allows players to adapt to pressure, puck position, and available space. Combine that versatility with different shot types and release points, and you become much harder for defenders and goaltenders to read.

The goal isn’t to perfect only one shot. It’s to develop the ability to finish from whatever position the game creates.

More standout plays from across the HPC community this week.

Andrew Rigsby — Never Give Up on the Play →
Andrew makes an incredible recovery save, sliding across the crease to deny a shooter who appeared to have an open net.

Grayson Largotta — Dangle and Snipe →
Grayson attacks down the left side, beats the defenseman one-on-one, and finishes high glove from in tight.

William Martel — Shootout Winner →
William stays composed through multiple dekes before finishing glove side for the shootout winner.

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