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Originally Posted by Textcritic

It's too bad so many people hate Hometown Hockey, and missed that excellent profile piece on power-skate coaching guru and Flames consultant Dawn Braid.

Here’s a great article on her.https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ches-big-read/

I thought this quote was gold.

‘Regardless of who comes through the door, though, the philosophy of her approach remains unchanged — back to the fundamentals. Back to the blueprint. “Take the basic elements of skating,” she says. “Your forward and backward skating, your crossovers, your edges and your turning … You look at that in a player and pull out ‘Why do they not do them well?’ and, ‘Have they ever been taught correctly how to do those basic elements?’” The key is body alignment, she explains — ankles, knees and hips. “If the alignment is off there, then the whole kinetic chain of movement is going to be incorrect. So, when I say ‘foundation,’ that’s what we’re looking for first.”’