The Art of the Face-off: Heavy Sticks and Strong Cores
Ryan O'Reilly, Steven Stamkos explain what it takes to own the dot.
It only takes a fraction of a second for a game to change directions.
The responsibility of winning face-offs requires a special kind of skillset, one that takes a unique type of player.
Since the first time they stepped onto the ice, Nashville Predators Ryan O’Reilly and Steven Stamkos always wanted to play center.
Winning face-offs is job No. 1.
O’Reilly first fell in love with hockey watching his older brother Cal get into the game and has been drawn to it ever since. He didn’t always have his brother's number in the faceoff dot but that was a challenge he needed to overcome early on.
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