Orca Smash
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- Feb 9, 2012
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All teams forecheck hard on free pucks. Watch us. We have two guys (sometimes three) deep when the opponent D has puck on stick, and head up control. It’s a juvenile approach. Yes there will be the odd turnover (there are D like Gudbranson in the league) but in most cases we get trapped, and it causes a cascading series of events that lead to high quality scoring chances (against) off the rush. No NHL teams forecheck like us. And they don’t, because it’s a certain recipe for failure. They trap, because the 1-2-2 has worked in hockey since we went to 5 skaters from 6.
Do all teams forecheck hard on free pucks? I mean we dont....Again I am not talking about when the opponent has the puck, I am talking about when the puck is dumped into the offensive zone. We often send one forechecker in all alone out numbered and have trouble sustaining any offensive zone pressure as the opposing team wins the puck battle and it goes back the other way.