Winger Breakout Skills

This video shows numerous examples of the skills needed by wingers in order to breakout of your own end. Turnovers can be deadly in this area, having your players have these tools in the toolbox will help them breakout no matter what kind of forecheck the other team is using. Players must be able to read pressure and apply the appropriate skill.

[jaydrfish]

This guy has a great teaching voice, and a clear, uncomplicated way of explaining multi-faceted issues.
Thank you so much!

[jerrysmith]

My son plays left wing in Bantam AA and was really bummed after his game last night because the D kept pinching and he couldn`t get the puck out of the zone. After watching this video, I KNOW I can help him, even if it`s to give him the confidence to remind his centre to support him low as a passing option or to ask his coach about what the plan is when D are pinching on him. Thanks man....you are such an amazing asset to hockey. My son and I will watch this video together after he comes home from school this afternoon.

[larsandersson]

Awesome! Hugely appreciated. Would love to see more of this, centers d-man etc.

[ahbroody]

Great video. My kid has always played center but this year the coach has him as wing. He has struggled at times breaking out. This will help a lot

[calvinotos]

Thanks for the vid, I am a 2nd year bantam. I’m not on the beat team but at about 5:11 into the video he talks about a problem that really apples to me. You really know what your talking about, this helped me a lot with decision making

[TMBfan]

Thanks so much for this video. This is my first year playing hockey and I've played center the whole time, got thrown on wing tonight and I had no real idea of what to be doing along the boards.

[marner]

Thank you so much for this. I was looking for a video about playing left wing as a righty. Saw some but they were not detailed enough, or left out some important things. It’s hard to get the whole picture when someone’s video is just about generalities. Your video was filled with applicable detail for breaking out and I really appreciate it. Thx again.

[marcplatapus]

Thanks great help… I’m center trying to learn wing and it really helped me getting used to being on the boards.

[mhicaoidh]

Great video. My beer league teams can learn a lot from these excellent breakdowns. We come out with speed, and we're fine. We can't do that consistently though ... so, when we are rimming or chipping the puck out, it's always a turn over in the neutral zone and the play is coming right back at us.

You're breakdowns here were an "aha!" moment for me as you talk about the weak side wing, and how they can help, for example, when a puck is rimmed to the other side. I realize I need to get moving to that side to get those pucks the other winger chips past their D when our center is caught low.

[Simon-xuqt]

Thanks this helps a lot. It feels like groundhog day as yet another puck comes rimming around the board to me on the wing just above the circles. I will try these techniques to see if I can get it past the D more often, as right now it gets stuck so often.

[W.Holden.]

Playing my first year of higher level hockey and got switched from center to wing. This helps so much, thanks!

[gregweiss]

This helped a lot for my son, thanks man

[StackFREAK]

This is gonna help me out so much thanks man keep the content coming.

[crushingalldeceivers]

Great video, I was switched to wing from center and have felt a bit lost out there.

[Reactions]

I have to say, you explained @3:25, what I've been telling benders for years, "heads down" hockey(caveat - at better levels) is NOT a sign of weakness but playability. Our eye sight allows about 110 degrees of binocular vision, everything else is singular, granular and recognizeable only by reps.

Players DO have responsibility to recognize vulnerable situations AND NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE....

[gregprice]

Awesome video. I had several questions about the breakout and you answered each one! Keep 'em coming!

[Onebrunette]

I play right wing in a D league so this video was very helpful! Headed to watch your other videos.

[motherselllukas]

The past two years I have been playing left defence and before that I played centre my coach just moved me back up to forward this time as a winger I was confused at first but this really helped thanks

[DOMINATOREDWING]

This will be my first year playing ice hockey. Thx for taking the time to make this video. I learned a lot

[carletonmath]

I really like the Red Wings zone exit at 8:12. Is that the best way to breakout against pinching defense in you opinion?