Hope you guys enjoyed my first installment of Conall’s Coaching Corner. It is a lot of fun to share these terms and habits with you all. These little nuances of the game are incredibly important to point out in order to help my players grow as hockey players. Today we are going to talk about “Cutting off Hands” a phrase that is used frequently on hockey benches around the world.
The term “Cutting off Hands” I think is fairly self explanatory. The idea is to use your stick and come over the top of the other players stick, and low enough so you do not make stick contact with the opponents hands.