Screen Shots & Protecting Your Crease

Screen shots are always hard to stop. If you can't see the puck, there's not much that you can do except guess where it's going to go.

Here's a goalie with an attacker trying to screen her.











The goalie is pushing to get to the top of the crease, challenging the shooter, and giving the forward in front trouble... that's good.

But when the shot comes, she doesn't have much room to move, and if there's a rebound, the attacker has a good chance of scoring.



Just for fun...

In this kind of situation, you have to worry about the puck first. But, sometimes you can make the forward leave, or help you stop the puck.

A little push on the forward's skates, legs, knees, or bum can teach them to stay away from your crease. (Watch your goalie coach give a push to the player trying to screen him.) But be careful, your job is to stop the puck... and you don't want to get a penalty!