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To the hockey player, well-trained visual skills are a must. Particularly important are the following:
Perceive the game better in its entirety: the puck, players, lines, goal and boards.
Shoot more consistently, confidently and accurately.
Remember the patterns and weaknesses of the opponent.
Pass more crisply by better identifying teammates.
React to fast-moving shots and passes.
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Building visual skills will guide you to do the following on the ice:
- Visual memory is used to help remember where opposing players frequently position themselves on ice.
- Hockey players must posses an awareness of the position, speed, direction of the puck, players; location of lines, goal, boards throughout game.
- Efficient Visual memory skills are useful for to assist offensive players in remembering defensive players weak sides.
- Visual memory and recognition are skills required to recognize other teammates, opponents, and position of the puck.
- Excellent depth perception is essential to aid in judgement of position of puck in relation to players and position on ice.
- The passing game is influenced by all the visual skills..
- Shooting the puck with confidence and accuracy
- Reaction time, efficient tracking, eye flexibility, are used to anticipate angles of passes.
- Visual skills are used to assist players in utilizing all of the ice and all the players on ice.
- Visual tracking, eye flexibility, depth perception, reaction time visual memory are all skills that must be honed and are essential for goalies.
- Goalies must be able to instantaneously recognize and react to the speed, direction, and height of the puck.
- Goalies are required to recognize the position of offensive and defensive players while monitoring the position of the puck.
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