The One Timer !!!

You quickly transition from skating forwards to skating backwards creating space from your opponent. Your head pops up as your eyes lock onto a puck that is already traveling in your direction at a much faster pace than you yourself are moving. From that quick glance, your mind has already computed and estimated the pucks trajectory, speed, and estimated a time of arrival.  Still maintaining your backward momentum, your muscle memory takes over as you start applying more weight on your front leg. Your developed abdomen allows you to twist the upper half of you body independently up and away from your lower half creating a taught tension as you simultaneously open up rising your stick above your head.  As your body bows in this movement, everything around you fades away except for the extreme contrast between the black puck progressing across the white ice illuminating by the lights above. As you stick swoops down, the front end of your skate blades dig in, breaking the plane of the ice below you, and altering your speed. The blade of your stick accelerating down, clashes with the puck, interlocking and saturating it with the directional energy of your stroke. As you follow through, you complete a full bodied whipping eruption that propels the puck towards the net. Sean McAloney