As a coach of a Bantam team and as someone who, frankly, has a heck of a slap shot, I've noticed that a lot of kids put the puck too far ahead in their stance when taking a slapshot and are basically hitting it after all the energy in the stick is gone. You want to hit the puck on the down swing, kinda like golf, but still want to hit the ice a few inches behind the puck. You get the power from the flex of the stick.
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