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Jordan Eberle can score but he wants to score more.

So, he hired a shooting coach this summer, not so much to work on his one-timer, which isn’t his strong-suit, but just getting into areas to score. He wants to get back to the 34-goal season of 2011-2012 years ago, so is working with hockey’s “Shot Doc,” Ron Johnson from Vancouver.

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“Lots of guys are hiring skill coaches and I’ve had skating coaches but the shot was something I wanted to focus on this summer,” said Eberle, who can stickhandle in a Volkswagen but wants to get shots off quicker or find the soft spots on the ice.

Johnson, who runs Elite Hockey Shooters and has worked with Joe Pavelski and Ryan Kesler and scores of other kids and pros, looks at things like puck protection, grip mechanics, snap shots.

“I pick something out every summer that I want to work on and this year it’s my shot. As a hockey player there’s always room for improvement. You want to get faster or whatever. With how good goalies are, you have to change things up,” said Eberle, before Monday’s Celebrity Pro-Am for the Oil Country Championship at Glendale.