How to shoot like Connor Bedard

those ribbons and pucks with Connor Bedard the other day and he was a nice enough guy to let me record a few in slow motion and when you break down these slow motion shots it's really easy to pick out differences and really discover how this guy has such an incredible shot I mean he's 18 years old but you can tell his shot is special what I want to do in this video is show you guys three things three big differences that I noticed from his shot to most other people's shots so you can use this to try to shoot like Conor Bedard so in this video we're going to learn how to shoot like Bernard now I don't want you guys to read too much into this because he was at the NHL combine he's in dress pants he's wearing his Gucci loafers so please don't read too much into every single thing that he's doing there's a lot of ways to shoot the puck but these three differences that I notice definitely will make a difference in your game let's start with that Top Hand location a lot of newer players I notice this all when I'm teaching the younger players or the newer players is that the Top Hand kind of remains on the hip right here and yeah they'll get it out a little bit sometimes they just sweep we covered that in a previous video just punching that bottom hand we don't do that anymore because you've been watching the videos right but look at that Top Hand still kind of in this area lined up with the hip of this leading foot right here 's what I noticed about Bedard though he doesn't have that top hand here on the hip he starts it here and down there so not only on this leg but down nice one he's basically starting with it on the thigh right how low that Top Hand is taking a look at some game footage here you can see he starts with hitting the stick handling position kind of on his hip brings it across the body to that thigh kind of holds it here that's the bait right there and he's gonna bring it back across for that release