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It’s all about PASSION !!! But one skill worth practicing by the hour ... ... is cutting to the middle and getting shots off before you’re comfortable. Watch tapes of Gretzky and Ovechkin SCORING GOALS IS MUCH MORE ABOUT PASSION THAN IT IS ABOUT SKILL. Most players need to be skating comfortably toward the net before they release a shot Gretzky and Ovechkin shoot in practice when they’re moving parallel to the blue line... so in games, they get shots off before they get into comfortable shooting position.