Passing power

I have trouble with passing the puck as well. I'm interested in hearing what the proper technique is too.

From what i understand some trappers font grasp the stick. Just the way they are made. What i was shown was to use the back of your trapped as a fulcrum. All the movement and power comes from the top hand. It seems to all be in the tecnique though. Its like a flip, similar to the way you flip the puck up as a foreward.
Im not good at it, but i practice it every warmup for a few minuets and im getting better. One tip is hold the stick tight with the top hand. Once i figured that out it made a big difference.

its practice! I am terrible at passing puck, or lifting it to clear the zone, and there are many ways to do it.

its finding one the feels comfortable with you and then just practicing and practicing and practicing.

I use a closed glove push techinque (back of glove hand is against paddle) as opposed craddling paddle in glove. I also use the pad as leverage techinque to, and can get better results from this some times, depending on time given to play the puck

Do you guys do the Turco method?



Here's a picture of me doing it back from my roller days:



Basically, I use the Turco method (glove hand over the stick instead of behind or under it as old school goalies used to do). It gives me a ton of strength, and is much more accurate, for me, than the old school method. I don't have the strongest upper body whatsoever, and yet I can, with the Turco method, really whip the puck pretty quickly. Last game an old teammate of mine was reffing and joking told me to play the puck when I had come out a bit, made the save, and covered it. The next shot came in, I dropped it down, and gave a beautiful saucer pass to my player at the center line, and he yelled back, "Show off!" Hahahaha. Got an assist the previous game, too.

But, anyway, try the Turco method, if you can. It feels funny at first, but you get used to it and will really see an improvement in strength and, more importantly, accuracy. Wish I had better video, but you can kind of see from behind that I do the Turco method at 2:30:



Hope that helps somehow!

You should figure out which way works best for you..either overhand(Turco) or underhand(Brodeur) style. Once you pick one, make sure you squeeze your stick the best you can with your glove. In both pictures synesthete posted, they are squeezing their stick. This is important. For those that are saying they use the closed glove push method....ever try backhand like that???

The two things I have a problem with is the wrist flick, and I'm used to holding a hockey right handed, so now when I try to pass as a goalie, I'm holding my stick as if I was a lefty and it still feels so weird.

most right handed shooters find success using the overhand (Turco) method.

I have been working on that method recently and it has helped a ton! I can now get the puck to the blue line from the goal line, albeit it takes about 10 seconds to get there haha. I'm still working on squeezing the stick with my glove hand, but I know I'll get it with more time.