On today’s SHORT SHIFTS episode, Toph wants to talk all things F1 and “Crazy Legs LoVecchio” is HERE FOR IT! Tips, tricks, and F1 hacks (play chess, not checkers) and habits is ON THE CLOCK!
TEN MINUTES STARTING NOW!
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(upbeat music) Here we go with another short shifts episode 10 minutes or on the clock, Jeffrey J. Hulovecchio. Proud American hat right there. He has no idea. No idea what the topic is gonna be. Should you choose those Zephx? We're gonna have some fun today. Do you choose to accept? I always accept. Okay, I think you're gonna like this one. I think I always say that, but I think you're gonna like this one. So write up your alley, ready? Today we're gonna talk about F1. Today we're gonna talk about F1. One, F1 is easy. No, F1 is, he's the missile man. She's the missile man. They're the one going into, it's wrapped in on the four check. They're the one disrupting in the neutral zone. We're talking about F1. Jeffrey J. Hulovecchio, have a feeling you're pretty good at being F1. Talk to me about it. Talk to me about how you could be a very valuable F1. Let's go. Had to be F1, first of all. Wasn't the best at reading the play. So had to be F1 and me told all the boys, it goes in, I'm going, all right? So just let me go. Number one, stick in front of you. Do not skate with your stick in both hands. Skate with your stick out reached as far as you can in front of you. Because, as we said in the podcast many times, but if you're new here, you got to think about it, right? Play chest, not checkers. Your arm from your shoulder to your fingertips, it's probably like depending on your age, two feet, three feet long, you know? Then your stick, depending on your height, four feet, five feet, whatever it is, so you can get your stick on the puck making a play where it actually hits your stick anywhere from five to eight feet sooner. Eight feet is an ocean at the higher levels of hockey. - It's a lot of feet. - And it's a lot of feet, an absolute ocean. So if you start getting really good at not only keeping it out in front of you so that that defenseman has a way harder time making a pass, you also with your stick out in front of him can steer that guy who's going back for the puck to where you want to go. As you get older, hockey is a lot of thinking. It is chess, not checkers. You are going to be running some type of forecheck and a USF1 have a job of steering them one side, the other up the middle, whatever your goal is. And by having that stick way out in front of you, again, five to eight feet out in front of you, you are going to be able to take away a lane on purpose, shade over a little bit to one side to make them go to the side that you want to go to. Toel played a left wing lock, a cornel. So if that is your goal, you're trying to steer them up to the right winger. So if that stick is way out in front of you, you can shade over to take away that half of the ice where they would come up the left wing side for them and we can push them to their right winger where our left wing lock is. It is so important to have your stick out in front of you. It's also going to break up plays, you're going to cause turnovers, which lead to offense. We all want to score goals. It's the best thing in the world. No better feeling and stick pressure will help with that. And I'll also say that you've got to know within your line mates what for check you're running. You got to make sure that if you're trying to steer a guy to this side that you're F2 and F3, know what you're doing. They've got to be able to either read off of you or also be on the same page as you within the team system if there is one. And if there's not, you got to be talking to them to create that. The last thing I'll say is finish your effing check. If you were playing check hockey, you're old enough, finish your hits. I hate how hockey is like getting less physical. I love it in one instance, but like, you want to separate yourself right now, finish your checks. And if you're F1 and you're in there and you're flying and you got a guy lined up, bury him. Obviously legally, bury him because, you know, you are going to get more space on the ice for yourself. You're gonna get more space on the ice for your teammates, for your team, every now and then if you take a penalty for charging or whatever, even if it's not, you're going to open up space on the ice for you, especially with where the game is now, where there's a little bit less hitting than there was when Tof and I played. - 100%, man, 100%. And I love the word that you used, steer. That's a word we use that Miami a lot was steer. And you want to steer the player with the puck where you want them to go. Whether that's on the four check and you want to steer them up into the strong side is that's where your F2 is going to be or your lock, whether it's steer and like we did the lovely lock or it's coming up the right side. You're always trying to take away time and space, take away ice by forcing them to go into where your structure is, right? So steer, like again, we talk about terminology, like terminology is a big part of being able to teach and being able to coach. And I always thought that was a really good word. Good job. (laughs) The next thing that I have as F1, you can't get beat up the ice. You can't get beat up the ice as F1. So when you're going in, whether you're a team that wants to play physical, kind of like you were talking about, like finish your check or you're just trying to get in pressure hard and maybe you're not as physical team, whatever it may be, the biggest thing is just don't get beat back up ice by the defenseman 'cause that's where odd man rushes come from is when you get beat up the ice by the defenseman. So a lot of times that happens by finishing, but a lot of defenseman nowadays are getting a lot better of deception. (laughs) And so they might throw a puck or pass a puck and know that they're going to get hit. Whoop, they sidestep you and then they beat you up ice. So I do think it's important that like you have to be really like hard working or relentless F1, but it has to be in control. It has to be in control. Like if your skates, skates getting like so hard, blah, blah, blah, blah, they go to check somebody. It's like really easy for defenseman nowadays to kind of sidestep and then beat you up ice, which is what they want to do. So you have to get in and be relentless, but you have to have like control of your body if that makes any sense. - Totally because when I was younger, I didn't have control in my body. I know and a big part of it was honestly because when I would go to hit guys, when I, my first year juniors, I didn't have good stick pressure. And because I didn't have good stick pressure and I was just, I was new to hitting. I mean, I was a skilled guy up until I got to juniors and then I wasn't skilled enough. I would go in and put my stick up in the air and try and crush a guy. And it would throw me off balance. When you go in with your stick out in front of you, leading stick on puck, you just are in a more balanced body position to make a better hit, which then allows you to not get off balance when you throw that hit so that you'd make sure you don't get beat by back, by the defenseman. 'Cause if you are gonna hit him, like Tom said, you cannot get beat up the ice because if you do almost every time they're hitting that D man who got by you and he's probably gonna bury it. - Mm-hmm, been there before. - And the other thing when you talk about F12 and whether that's in the neutral zone, whether it's on the forecheck, get back through the middle of the ice. So you talk about like that stick pressure, like coming up as F1, like going north, but also when that puck comes away from you, it gets past, it has to be back hard through the middle with your stick pressure. Because again, offensively, where do you wanna bring the puck? You wanna get the puck to the middle to create that confusion, to create that chaos. And so defensively, what do you wanna do? You wanna take that away. And a lot of times that happens through the back pressure of F1. And so always, always, always stick back through the middle first and then get your butt go and take away those passallings through the middle. - Yeah, I love that you said that, like stop on a dime and the first thing that should move, it shouldn't be your legs first. It should be swinging your stick back towards the middle of the ice and towards your D zone. Because that first pass beats you, they might try and put one right underneath between you and the second or third forward on your team. And by just you, as you stop, boom, if you're watching the YouTube, boom, going this way, stop, boom, stick, turn and go. My stick is there. I can't tell you how many times I knock down passes doing that. Just stop in the neutral zone, stop, come back, especially on the penalty kill, like that. And that's like a different area. That's in the D zone. Like you go up top, they pass it down low. You very quickly get that stick back to the middle. So, and I'm sure you as a half wall guy who is nasty, that made it a lot harder for you to get pucks through. - Oh, 100%. But I do have to say, when you're saying boom, boom, you know, it's a really underrated but hilarious movie. I don't know if you would have watched this. Remember the movie, "Sergeant Bilco" with Steve Martin? - I don't know if I ever saw it. - Oh, look at your side. - So, there's this one scene where like, one of the army generals is like, instead of going boom, boom, kaboom, boom, what if we save the kaboom for last? And we go boom, boom, and then kaboom. - That changed at all. - That dude, it was a hilarious lie. - I thought you were probably just butchered, but that's okay. - I thought you were gonna say boom goes the dynamite from that young reporter. - Oh, dude, that was awesome. Yeah. - And who goes the dynamite? - And to the other man, and boom goes the dynamite. - Okay, we got 20 seconds left. What else you got, F1, any other big or not big? - Move your feet, don't watch. Move your feet, don't watch. If you're F1 and you're going, close the gap. You close the gap by churning and burning. Do not read and react. It's not your job to read and react. That's F2, F3, churn and burn. Get those legs pumping, stick in front of you, bang that body, baby. - You're a letless. Share the show. Share that show. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]
On today’s SHORT SHIFTS episode, Toph wants to talk all things F1 and “Crazy Legs LoVecchio” is HERE FOR IT! Tips, tricks, and F1 hacks (play chess, not checkers) and habits is ON THE CLOCK!
TEN MINUTES STARTING NOW!
We appreciate every listen, download, comment, rating and share on your social sites!
