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Another Breakaway Tip For Goalies

Posted on Saturday, July 5, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I would prefer to have a shooter deke me on a breakaway rather than shoot. A way for the hockey goalie to dictate what the shooter does on the breakaway is to adjust how far you come out when they come in. If you want the shooter to deke you want to come out pretty far so that they don’t have anything to shoot at and have to deke. If they decide to shoot anyway you should have your angles covered and it should be very difficult for the shooter to snipe on you. If you would prefer to have the shooter take a shot rather than deke, you might not want to come out as far.