Oops I Did It Again Hockey
Six years agone, then-UND associate coach Peter Elander gave Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson a new drill to endeavour.
It was nicknamed, 'Oops, I Did It Again,' after the Britney Spears song that was pop in the early on 2000s when Elander started using it with all of his teams back in his native Sweden.
The purpose of the drill is to piece of work on the transfer of weight and being able to roll your wrists to have shine transitions with the puck.
How expert was Jocelyne at it?
"Half-dozen years agone, she wasn't good at it," Elander said.
That may seem hard to believe after Lamoureux-Davidson pulled off the motion to perfection early Th morning on the earth's biggest stage -- a sudden-death shootout confronting rival Canada with an Olympic gold medal on the line.
Lamoureux-Davidson approached Canadian goalie Shannon Szabados and faked a shot between the hash marks to get the goalie to drop. Then, she moved the puck to her left side on her backhand. Szabados started to dive that way in desperation. But at that moment, she pulled the puck back to her forehand, twisting Szabados into a pretzel and easily burial the goal.
- Watch the goal hither, via NBC Sports
It stood as the game-winning goal as the Americans beat out Canada 3-two to win Olympic aureate -- their first in twenty years.
"Oh my gosh," NBC analyst Pierre McGuire said after the goal was scored. "That's electrifying. That'southward every bit good as you lot're going to encounter anywhere."
The goal, which has been lauded by many as the nearly important e'er scored in U.South. women's hockey history, was the effect of endless hours backside the scenes in The Ralph working with Elander in "Highway Patrol" sessions, every bit the Lamoureuxs called information technology.
The nickname was considering of all of the tires and cones that were placed on the ice. 'Oops, I Did It Again' was 1 of the drills.
"I did it thousands of times," Jocelyne said early Thursday forenoon after actualization on the Today Show and Good Morning time America. "Over and over and over."
And Elander said that's why she was able to pull off the move on the earth's biggest stage.
"In this generation, young people who don't know how to practice things correctly, they don't want to practice information technology," Elander said. "If it takes a long time to perfect something, they don't have the patience to do it. The Lamoureux sisters are outliers in that group. If they run across something difficult, they see information technology as a challenge to improve it. To be able to be not expert at something, then work yourself into perfection at it, is almost a lost quality in today's lodge."
Elander, who was nicknamed The Professor at UND, said there's 2 variations of the 'Oops, I Did It Again' movement -- and Lamoureux-Davidson actually scored on both variations during the Pyeongchang Games.
The first one is a shot imitation followed by a quick motility to the backhand.
Lamoureux-Davidson scored on that play against the Olympic Athletes from Russia.
She had a breakaway off of a faceoff, faked a shot to get the goalie to driblet and flipped a backhand into the net. It was her second goal in the span of vi seconds, setting an all-time Olympic record for fastest sequent goals by a unmarried role player.
Elander idea Lamoureux-Davidson would use that move in the shootout confronting Szabados. Instead, she used the 'Oops, I Did It Over again' double (or contrary), where she makes a 2nd motility after the fake shot.
"The double is much, much harder," Elander said. "I honestly thought she was going to fake a shot and practice what she did confronting Russian federation."
Merely when Jocelyne faked her shot at the hash marks, Elander suspected she may be going for the double.
"If y'all do the double, you accept to start earlier, because you need more room," he said. "She sold the shot really well. When she rolled it over, she still had plenty time to go back. I'm super proud of her."
The Lamoureux twins gave Elander credit during their postgame interview with NBC.
"The last four years, nosotros've put in individual sessions with him," Jocelyne said. "The Highway Sessions. He'd set up upwards tires up and downwards the water ice and we'd practise different drills. Those were pretty tiring days. I'm just happy information technology worked out and paid off. It's pretty special."
Elander is no stranger to the Olympic spotlight.
In 2006, he was the head jitney of the Swedish squad that pulled off what is, to this twenty-four hours, the biggest upset e'er in women's hockey. The Swedes stunned the Americans in the semifinals and went on to win silver.
That is the just fourth dimension since women's hockey became an Olympic sport in 1998 that the U.Due south. and Canada haven't met in the final.
This time, Elander's work helped the Americans.
"I was but so happy for them," Elander said. "I know all the hours they put down. I know this year has been pretty tough for them. They haven't had easy access to anything. They earned everything.
"I'm super happy that the rest of the world got to see what they can practice."
Source: https://www.grandforksherald.com/sports/the-story-behind-jocelyne-lamoureuxs-oops-i-did-it-again-shootout-move-that-gave-the-u-s-olympic-gold
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