| We have all seen the pros pull moves that normal | | | | You have to be completely unbiased when you are |
| people can not do, and we have all tried to pull a move | | | | about to pull a move. If you can think of a way that |
| that ended up with us laying on the ice with the entire | | | | the goalie will stop your shot then the goalie has |
| team laughing at us. But that was when we did not | | | | probably already thought about that. You have to |
| know what a good deke required. It was before we | | | | make sure that you are doing what the goalie does |
| realized that the best dekes are not the ones that | | | | not expect. |
| make us look good, but the ones that put points on the | | | | Along with these mental flaws are some guidelines to |
| scoreboard. When you look at deking with that | | | | performing an excellent deke. |
| mentality, more moves become obvious, and it is much | | | | 1) Do What they Will Never Expect |
| easier to score. | | | | If you can always keep the other team guessing, then |
| When we talk about deking there are a couple of | | | | you will always score. You must be able to convince |
| flaws that players will have that will stop them from | | | | the other team that you are doing something that you |
| pulling all the moves that they can. To become a good | | | | are not. |
| deker you must make sure that you do not have any | | | | 2) Do not Get Fancy |
| of these mental mistakes. | | | | You never want to get fancy. Normally you will just |
| 1) Pride | | | | lose control of the puck and also the opportunity to |
| It is okay to be proud of yourself. However, it is not | | | | score a goal. There is also the chance that you will |
| okay to let that pride get in the way of scoring a goal. | | | | take to much time deking the goalie and skate to a |
| You have to understand that you are only trying to | | | | position where you have an awkward shot. |
| score a goal, not show off. When you begin to show | | | | 3) Let Your Main Goal be Scoring a Goal |
| off you will only lose control of the puck and embarass | | | | As long as you focus only on scoring a goal, and |
| yourself. You have to understand that the best deke | | | | nothing else, you will see openings. You will see shots |
| may not even be a deke at all. You may only have to | | | | that you can take and mistakes that the goalie is |
| shoot the puck to score a goal. | | | | making. A good rule of thumb is that the simpler you |
| 2) Wishful Thinking | | | | keep your job, the harder you will make the goalie's. |