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Keep your elbow up
This happened to me a couple years ago and I learned a lesson I haven't forgotten since. It was a slow dump in toward the goal and I was going to skate out and pass it up to the wing. An opposing forward and I were racing for the puck between us - I beat him to it, but whiffed and the guy skated past me and in for a goal.
As I was skating back to the goal, one of my defenseman skated past me and said "you dropped your elbow". I asked him what he said and "he said you dropped your front elbow. If you drop your front elbow, the puck rolls under the toe of the stick". "Keep your elbow up."
He was right. Now when I skate out to play the puck, I consciously throw my front elbow (the hand on the knob) up just as I plant to shoot. That keeps the stick blade as flat as possible and my shot has been consistently good ever since.
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