Belfry Hockey Podcast
Darryl Belfry has worked with the NHL’s brightest stars including Sidney Crosby, Auston Matthews, Nathan MacKinnon, and Hayley Wickenheiser. Belfry is recognized as the leading expert in uncovering new pathways of performance excellence on the ice. This is an NHL player development podcast featuring 20 different NHL players. In each episode, we analyze the different attributes and skillsets that make each player effective. Belfry relates these skillsets and attributes to his off-season tactical methodology, helping to gain an understanding of the processes and hard work behind the art of the NHL.
Belfry Hockey Podcast
Episode 1: Sam Steel
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Darryl Belfry
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Season 1
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Episode 1
For our first episode we have Sam Steel, a 24 year old player for Anaheim. Sam is a perfect opening episode because his game is rich with important player development topics. The Steel study offers a platform to discuss the value of acquiring good pucks and how central this one aspect is to helping players breakthrough in the NHL in their offensive game. With puck acquisition becoming his central challenge, there are a number of factors that spiral him into the position he is now battling in offensively.
Episode Notes:
- The Importance of puck acquisitions and compound possessions
- Improving the conditions of the puck
- The impact of puck touches and offensive rhythm
- Route discipline issues lead him into an acquisition into a stop
- The responsibility of the center to play the middle of the ice
- Skating patterning
- Success equation to create development momentum
- Connecting his play through two zones
- Rush closing his own space
- Problems with playing above the defender at the net
- Shot routes to unsettle the goalies feet