Red Wings' goaltending prospect Jared Coreau benefits from vision training

GROSSE POINTE WOODS - Eye training has done wonders for Detroit Red Wings goaltending prospect Jared Coreau the past three summers.

"We just call it vision training," Coreau said. "It's a light board and it's made by a company called Dynavision. You look at a small screen in front of you and then there's five rows or five circles of lights. Then different lights will light up and you have to hit them before the time runs out. We go .75 seconds, .5 seconds, .4 and .3, that's the fastest one that we'll do.

"It's just a peripheral training to keep your focus on one point and then reacting to others. It's helped a lot."

Coreau, who improved significantly the past two seasons with the Grand Rapids Griffins after a real difficult first pro year spent mostly with the Toledo Walleye in 2013-14, said the training has helped him track the puck tremendously better.

"I guess the easiest way to explain it, my reaction time went from .67 to below .3," Coreau said Wednesday, after the morning skate at McCann Arena. "So it cut it more than half. I think if you're not doing it, you're behind the game. It's a huge, huge advantage."

The 6-foot-6, 235-pound Coreau first learned of this training when he was 14.

"It was a little expensive though, so my parents kind of thought, 'No, we'll just throw tennis balls at your head and make you catch those.'

"I had seen it before and then when I had my first year pro, I wasn't very good. Jeff Blashill really pushed it, so I saw a lady named Karen Muncey in Ottawa; she started the whole thing. I went in and started doing that pretty much every day."

Coreau will play his first full NHL exhibition game tonight against the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.

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