Box Control (Full video clips explanations from Justin Goldman , Thomas Magnusson , Stefan Ladhe ,

Box Control (Full video clips explanations from Justin Goldman , Thomas Magnusson , Stefan Ladhe , Jack Hartigan, Charles Grant & Evan Mosher

[@ПИЛИГРИМЫ-е9щ]

Great.

[@dougbarclay9185]

How do you determine the box height? That's what I'm unsure of.

[@iangleadell]

The height of the box is determined by the depth of the goalie (or how close they are) in relation to the puck. If the puck is say dead centre at the top of the crease, and I butterfly literally on the goal line then the box would be 4ft tall because thats how high the puck can travel and still go into the net. Say instead I got much closer to the puck (like 2ft away) the height of the box would become much, much smaller because my body would cut off the line of the puck much earlier. Have a look at the part of the video around 4 mins in where they discuss rebounds in tight, when the goalie extends their pad right towards the puck - the height of the box, in that case, is literally the height of the pad and shows the importance of getting gloves/everything to the puck to smother the chances.

[@dougbarclay9185]

@@iangleadell Thanks! Your explanation helps.