I had a full hour lesson with Mike last Friday. I was dreading it, to be honest, but it was not as bad as I thought it would be. We continue to work on skating primarily, and I'm still finding making my feet do some of the drills difficult- including the first backward skating drill. I did make some improvement though. Enough so, that I think that this whole crazy scheme may actually work out. I also did something I've never really done before- stopped pretty much where I wanted to stop.
Towards the end of the lesson, Mike asked what I really liked about the NHL, what I liked to see and what I wanted to do. I told him that I really liked a good passing play. With that in mind, we ran a series of passing drills- both forehand and backhand. We skated down the ice passing back and forth, we did square passing drills- accept a pass, skate to a point, pass back- and we did a give and go drill, where I positioned myself in the boards, took a pass and skated down the ice... like a winger. These are the best drills we've done, and I think I'm well on my way to playing on the wing!
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