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Top Shelf: A Guide to the Perfect Wrist Shot What youngster has not dreamed about snapping a wrist shot past the goalie in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final to win the game? However, not everyone has a shot of this calibre; a shot so great that any goalie who faces it trembles in fear as the player with the puck breaks in alone with his eye on the corner of the net. There is …showed first 75 words of 474 total…

…showed last 75 words of 474 total…reaches your front foot and your shoulders are square to the net. At the point of release, your wrists snap forward causing the stick blade to turn out and lift the puck. After the puck is released, follow through pointing the toe of your stick toward the point on the target that you are aiming for. The height of the shot depends on how much you rotate your wrists and how high your follow-through is.