My son has recently started having problems with breakaway drills (he seems to have less problems with the real thing). Anyway, he has always done well with breakaways until recently. He seems to get beat a lot more than he used to. One of his biggest problems is that he goes down and then the player goes around him and puts it in the corner of the net. He's coming out at the beginning, but probably retreating too quickly and too deep into the goal. He's also probably going down too early as the opposing player is able to go around him and put it into the corner. It also looks to me like he lets the player get too close to him (facing him), without poking; thus allowing the player an easier cut to the left or right.
Obviously, this is a little hard for you to diagnose without seeing it, but I haven't played a lick of hockey in my life, and am trying to help. Any suggestions?
Posted on Aug 21, 2006, 8:31 PM from IP address 24.165.202.27
