Learn how to teach and reinforce sound, quality, efficient movement in your skaters, regardless of their age or skill level.

Where do power, speed and quickness come from in skating?

Pat Malloy, the Director of Hockey Programming and Head Instructor for the Elite Performance Hockey Program with the Peak Centre For Human Performance in Ontario, Canada, gave an on-ice presentation at TCS Live 2022 on the Foundations of High Performance Skating to answer that exact question.

Malloy has worked with world class teams, coaches and players leveraging sports science, performance analytics and ethics in sport to create a strong structural base with successful outcomes. His NHL coaching experience includes several seasons as a development coach for the Buffalo Sabres, as well consulting in player development for the Ottawa Senators.

Having worked for nearly two decades developing athletes, Malloy has concluded there are universal structural skating habits that can be taught at a young age and used by everyone right up to the NHL. Understanding that no two athletes are the same, Malloy’s drills use science to make them as simple and effective as possible to impact skaters.

“The habits we instill in our young players, if they’re high performance habits, will continue to grow.”

It starts with the postural power acquisition. If you’re new to this term, you’ll be very familiar with it after watching Malloy’s 23-minute presentation.