Learning to Play the Game
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Positions

Where do I stand and what is my job?

The four positions, plus the bridge between them. The three skater documents share one skeleton — by zone, then by situation within each zone. The goaltender document deliberately does not.

The 5 documents in this section

CenterYou are the link between all five skaters, and the half of that belief measurement leaves untouched is about territory, not mileage — the centre's job spans all three zones and the…WingerIn your own end and through the neutral zone, holding your lane is a spacing job before it is a scoring one — in the containment structure this document assumes, which is a coaching…DefenderTwo defencemen work as a pair, and almost everything else a defenceman does follows from that.GoaltenderGoaltending is not primarily about reflexes — it is about being in the right place, so that the save needs almost no reflex at all.Switching PositionsAlmost every player who sticks with hockey gets moved at some point — wing to centre, forward to defence, onto the other side of the ice, occasionally into the net.

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  author  = {James Bloom},
  title   = {Positions},
  howpublished = {Learning to Play the Game},
  url     = {https://learn-ice-hockey.com/positions/},
  note    = {Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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