Sentences with phrase «offensive zone»

You wouldn't expect a player who's among the league leaders in offensive zone starts to also be among the very best in the league in gaining the opponents blue line with possession.

What you'll notice on the chart above in the very last row is offensive zone starts.

All of the sustained offensive zone pressure and who knows... on another night 3 or 4 of them would have gone in.

I really liked that he put Vrana on the 2nd line on offensive zone draws before the Caps built a big lead.

The Turris line is among the league leaders in ratio of offensive zone starts, which makes Fiala's zone entry rates (shown below) all the more impressive.

Minnesota needs to establish more offensive zone time than it did Tuesday for Greenway to be impactful.

A terrible offensive zone entry by the Los Angeles Kings, Tanner Pearson specifically, turned into a scoring chance after New York Rangers defenseman Dan Girardi fell and then turned the puck over on a panic play right to Mike Richards.

Beagle has a 24.39 % offensive zone faceoff rate while Vrana gets a far more favorable usage at 61.1 %.

While it's clear the referees made the incorrect call, even though Oshie himself is no stranger to embellishments, the penalty was the Capitals fifth offensive zone penalty of the game.

Aleksander Barkov set up Nick Bjugstad's tying goal with a strong and skilled move through the Capitals offensive zone.

The difference was that their best players weren't sustaining offensive zone pressure like the Predators were able to.

And last night I noticed the bruins are really good at letting our forwards to have space in offensive zone areas like the corners or up and down the boards where you aren't a real threat, but if you try to push play towards the net from there you instantly get swarmed.

Propped up by the strong play of Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno finding his physicality, and Daniel Winnik just being that clutch, savvy veteran the line has controlled a lot of the Wild's total offensive zone time.

That led to easier offensive zone entries and a longer sustained attack in the Flyers» zone.

The Preds responded well with some solid offensive zone time.

Tommy Wingels took an ill - advised offensive zone penalty that in turn led to a short - handed chance but Pekka continued the theme of the night by coming up big.

Speaking of that deployment, Nieves is averaging 12.21 offensive zone faceoffs per 60, 24.41 neutral zone faceoffs per 60, and 18.55 defensive zone faceoffs per 60.

The Flyers got off to a decent start, controlling most of the scoring chances and offensive zone time.

The Boston Bruins big line of Milan Lucic - David Krejci - Nathan Horton executed a perfect «ABC» offensive zone entry on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first period.

If you want a very fresh example, how about Jori Lehtera getting smoked by Mat Barzal for a breakaway game - winner despite having two steps on him leaving the offensive zone?

Keeping them from entering the offensive zone with speed will be another defensive challenge.

Hopefully having last line change will help to free up Claude — get him against some lines where he / Coots / Raffle can dominate in the offensive zone rather than trying to contain Sydney's line (which they did tonight).

They make situational distinctions like that all the time, like being able to execute a hand pass in the defensive zone but not in the offensive zone.

At least you're giving Lehtera a neutral zone draw against them, rather than a defensive zone draw, or wasting an offensive zone draw that the Lehtera line is going to squander anyway.

When you have possession of the puck in the neutral zone, you can enter the offensive zone offside.

I guess they're trying to protect Girard, but he could be a great fit with Subban, especially in the offensive zone.

He would get a lot more chances in the offensive zone with Girard than with Emelin anyways, even if he has to stay in the back a little more.

If you're a hockey coach looking to show your team how to enter an offensive zone, this video is a textbook example.

All that work in the offensive zone, it's just wasteful... damn shame.

Well, part of that 200 feet is the offensive zone and there sure are a few guys on this roster that are as ineffective in the O zone as AA (and our defensive squad?)

By clogging the neutral zone with forecheckers, Boucher makes it extremely hard for opponents to gain the offensive zone; when Tampa is playing with a lead, the 1 -3-1 can seem almost impenetrable.

The other attackers would then speed into the offensive zone.

The league has become dominated by run - of - the - mill defensemen grabbing you every inch of the offensive zone.»

This mythical creature sounds terrifying, especially if he is roaming the offensive zone and firing lasers at any of his foes who dare to try and stop him.

Johan Larsson knocked the puck back into the offensive zone with two of his teammates still below the blue line, and McCabe scored moments later.

The ideal shift for a 3C like Faksa is to spend 35 of 45 seconds in the offensive zone creating chances, forcing the other team's best offensive players to play defense, and often when that happens it leads to either a goal or a penalty.

The NHL, in a tweet, explained «that all Sabres players tagged up at the blue line prior to Johan Larsson touching the puck in the offensive zone, rendering the play onside.

As for Honka's corsi - for numbers — I think you'll find there is a direct correlation between a player's corsi for percentage and their offensive zone starts.

They spent very little time in the offensive zone.

I also can not STAND that everytime we seem to have pressure in the offensive zone from the forward group, it's Dillon and Polak on the blueline..

When he rushes through the offensive zone toward a goal, Pelé captures the imagination in a way that only the most dramatic of athletes can.

They also added a very talented winger in Alex Radulov, who should provide an intense presence in the offensive zone.

Before the rule change, offsides was whistled immediately if attacking players were in the offensive zone when the puck crossed the blue line.

He could simply fire the puck into the offensive zone at any time, even if his forwards were well past the blue line; all his forwards had to do was skate back to the blue line and tag up — like a runner going back to third base before scoring on a sacrifice fly — and then chase the puck into the attacking zone.

When Alexei Emelin got sucked into the play and left St. Louis wide open in the Canadiens» offensive zone, Carl Hagelin picked up the puck and found him.

This is a great trade for the Wings, Quincey is a physical defenseman who can still contribute in the offensive zone.

Way, way back when, it was 10 seconds to get it out of the box, unlimited time to get it over midfield (without going back into the offensive zone) and then a new 10 second clock started over midfield.

Maatta played more aggressively in the offensive zone; he took more shots and joined the rush a couple of times.