{"id":1058,"date":"2011-10-20T12:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2011-10-20T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T18:43:20","slug":"defensive-zone-pickup-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/defensive-zone-pickup-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive Zone Pickup (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good breakout pass can be the difference between creating an offensive scoring opportunity, or finding the puck in the back of your own net. Last week we covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/hockey-instructional-video\/neutral-zone-transition-options-for-defensemen\/\">passing options for neutral zone regroups<\/a> &#8211; in this week&#8217;s video, we&#8217;ll take a look at options for picking up a loose puck in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dabpxb5e3Aw<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teaching Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prior to picking the puck up:\n<ul>\n<li>Look over your shoulder prior to picking the puck up<\/li>\n<li>Angle in when approaching the puck (don&#8217;t skate straight at it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Strong-side pass option (wing or center):\n<ul>\n<li>Move the puck quickly<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate unnecessary stickhandles<\/li>\n<li>Avoid rimming the puck around the wall if at all possible<\/li>\n<li>Identify which pass option is available prior to picking up the puck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>D to D pass:\n<ul>\n<li>Move the puck quickly<\/li>\n<li>Eliminate unnecessary stickhandles<\/li>\n<li>Know if your partner is right or left-handed<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t jam your partner up by putting the puck to close to the wall<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t rim the puck around the wall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Escape turn:\n<ul>\n<li>Use the net for protection initially<\/li>\n<li>Turn toward the boards, protecting the puck\n\t    <\/li>\n<li>        Move the puck quickly<\/li>\n<li>Accelerate out of the turn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we covered passing options for neutral zone regroups &#8211; in this week&#8217;s video, we&#8217;ll take a look at options for picking up a loose puck in the defensive zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[38,52,164,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}