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1 v 1 VS Cole Caufield



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48 Comments

  4. @aaronwhite1786

    Props to you, Jeremy! Even if he's not going 100% or anything, you're still keeping up pretty solidly on the defense!

  5. @williamm3691

    Goal Caulfield 😎Great video. 9:53 I love how surprised and impressed he is with your snipes. "A quick lesson from you" lol

  7. @foil.mp4

    someone tell me cole’s stick specs. i need to find out the lie curve and stick height

  26. @holobalobaloable

    Honestly, that was not too bad at all on defense in the beginning. I was expecting you to immediately be baited into a crossover outside the dots and get your ankles broken to the inside – like Bouchard in every other Oilers highlight (half-joking). Looked like solid fundamentals, just held back by the fact you were obviously taking the whole thing casually (reaching out with stick as he walked by instead of moving feet and getting physical, not going sweat-mode with deep knee bend on the mohawk transitions, etc).

    I loved your interview at 2:20 too. Most hockey player interviews might have stopped at a generic 'create space and use your teammates', but you kept prompting Cole to expand further on his thought process, not allowing the conversation to settle into typical 'hockey interview answers', and he ended up giving valuable insights – although maybe they need an extra stage of translation for clarity, which I'll attempt to do:

    1. Look at the defender's feet, and when they're crossing over you go the other direction. This is extremely important, and is also sometimes called 'attacking the heels'. It's also common in Basketball amongst high class dribblers – moving in such a way as to force the defender to turn their toes in one direction, so that you can 'break their ankles' by cutting back behind their heels. This is what I mentioned you did a good job of avoiding, earlier on!

    2. 'Put the puck in a place where they can't reach it.' The spin-o-rama and through-the-legs weren't just cute trick moves Cole was pulling off with a 'look what I can do' mentality – they were efficient methods of keeping his legs between your stick and the puck, effectively creating a zone of ice where you cannot reach. AKA puck protection.

    3. 'They're trying to lunge and lean'. I think he's partially explaining how he was beating you here. Even though you weren't blatantly over-committing on defense by crossing or turning your feet, you might have been letting your stick lead your body around a bit too much, leaning and lunging for poke checks, which put you off balance. He protected the puck until he saw you reaching, then drove through your stick with his legs and took body position.

    4. His number one tip for a 1v1 is finding your second teammate, because 1v1 is an incredibly rare occurrence in an actual hockey game, whereas creating/finding 2v1s is the core of offensive hockey strategy. If your first instinct is to look for a 2v1, that's a mentality that translates well to elite levels of the sport.

    5. 'Try to get speed, but be patient and use speed when it's most valuable.' Huh, does Caufield train with Darryl Belfry? Because this sounds very familiar, haha. And it's great advice, too. Speed kills at low levels, but CHANGES of speed kill at elite levels. Learning how to consistently reach your top speed in neutral zone rushes and receive a pass without slowing down is a god-mode cheat in Beer League, but when you reach the NHL you won't be consistently blowing past defenders wide and cutting inside (unless your name is Connor McDavid, I guess). Instead, as Cole demonstrated in these 1v1's, he gathers speed, then he slows down a tiny bit while he protects the puck and baits the defender to over commit with a crossover, lean or lunge. Then when he sees that, he re-accelerates to blow through a weak point.

    I would dig into the board battle stuff too, because I love Sidney Crosby's office as much as anyone. But I've already written a novel, haven't I? FYI I'm no expert, just an overly-passionate rando, so kindly take this as me – the nerd – taking notes in class 😅

  30. @petrlukshin4620

    Great nice funny video! Awesome guys))) It is unbelievable what arrays of skills these NHL players have. Love the game even more)))

  35. @billhenry7833

    The kid is too tiny, and no better than anyone else other than his shot. He scores during the regular season, but disappears in the playoffs when it gets rough. His team is like it is short handed when they don’t have the puck in the playoffs.

  39. @CamHC

    He had to wait for you to catch up and put your stick in front of him, which I believe is what threw him off.

  44. @Habs_Centennial

    Remember I made Nasher61 famous in NHL 2011 by being a shootout test subject I'll always be the ranked #1 player overall with well over 300k points now!!

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