07/02/2026
The first drill of the Coaching Goalies Drill Series is the two slide drill.
The two slide drill is a bit of a swiss army knife drill for working on slides.
As a base it can help develop the goalie's sliding technique if the coach focuses on ensuring perfect technique on each slide.
If you want to emphasize intensity, quickness and power on their recoveries and slides, you can push the pace on the second slide, forcing the goalie to get to their spots more quickly.
You can also focus on an underrated part of the position, in the goalie's routes around the crease and being efficient in how they close space. We prefer our goalies to slide just past the post to fill the top corner quickly with their upper body rather than into the post, which, while it may make it easier to recover on a rebound, can lead to a delay in getting the upper body into the top shelf.
You can run this drill with a lot of differnet tweaks as well, including having the goalie start in RVH, or start by going post to post before the shot. Or, start with the angled shot first.
Generally, we always want the goalie switching directions on the second shot. As if you go left post to middle then right dot angle, the goalie can use momentum from the first save to make the second save and you aren't really working on recoveries anymore.