I played travel hockey all my life and than played in college for a few years. Now I play in A & B rec leagues as life is a little too hectic to still be traveling about for hockey. For a long time I never had any problems beating the guys I played with to the inside and than after a couple of years I found myself getting stopped on everything I did. I've got significantly better acceleration than most of the guys in my league and decent hands, but it seemed, after a while, that I'd used every move I had to it's limit and they were no longer effective. The only time I ever had success going inside was by putting a shoulder down, protecting the puck and driving my legs. When I finally got tired of having the puck swatted away or getting pushed to the outside, I decided it was time to add a few new tricks to the bag and went to a bunch of pickup games with guys from the C & D leagues. If you have trouble faking to the outside, coming to a quick stop and cutting the other way with good acceleration, I found that learning how to leave the puck behind you as you make your cut, so that when you begin in the new direction the puck is already to the inside and you don't have to bring it across your body (risking a pokecheck) helps make up for a lack of acceleration or a defender who seems to have a step on you. Another move I found helped me open up the inside lane again was something like Thomas Vanek's around the world move, but as a deke, not a shot-fake. If you put the puck to the inside, and deke with your body, without touching the puck and than get back to the puck quick enough to move it the other way it will buy you a lot of time. You have to really sell the fake though, because a defender who follows the puck and not the body will just pokecheck the loose puck. Finally, I found that extending your reach to the outside, as if you're trying to get the puck in a shooting lane while keeping your body behind the defender, will get the defender to turn (the important and desired effect, as mentioned above) and leave you enough time and space (because of your extended reach) to slide the puck behind the defenders back skate and to the inside as he turns to the outside. From here you've really got them beat. The move to get the defender to turn is similar to the way Jussi Jokinen and Pavel Datsyuk score a lot of their shootout goals... your body is lined up with the defender but you're reaching way out with your arms so that the puck is in an open lane. All of these moves are really easy to execute as they don't require great stick handling skills by any means, just good timing. Anyone whose been playing for a while should be able to pull them off with just a little bit of practice and while these don't work for me all of the time, they gave me a few new options when going 1v1 and something to mix in with my old moves to make me a less predictable stick handler and bring me back some of my old success.