Sentences with phrase «puck possession»

If I am Nill, I pretend like I am the Las Vegas GM these next few months and the quietly try to go build a roster that emphasizes puck possession kinds of guys.

You can not tell their 4th line from their 1st line when it comes to puck possession.

If the team can maintain this level of puck possession, well - timed disruption and confidence in their goaltender, they may have the keys they need to carry them past their old adversaries in New Jersey and into the Stanley Cup Finals.

My expectation is that Zubrus is going to play on the right side with Elias and Zajac, to give DeBoer a line that's defensively responsible enough, and good enough in terms of puck possession to face the opposing teams» best lines.

With the kind of a 180 we did in our game plan, stranding high speed puck possession players with dump and chase and checking for chances style of play, it would be futile, and plain stupid, to try and assess them play Hitch hockey.

He is one of the players who was drafted for the puck possession, high speed, hockey and he just couldn't adjust to Hitch for most of the season.

But when we dominate we tend to lose 1 or 2 games each playoff series where we have around 60 % + puck possession.

After sustained puck possession by the Canadiens, Drouin connected with Galchenyuk, who fired a one - timer past Bernier.

The New York Rangers made a series of adjustments to their puck possession and defense to carry them to victory over the Washington Capitals in Game 7.

DeBoer says something about puck possession and limiting turnovers.

Aside from Hanzal's faceoff wins giving his team a boost in puck possession, the trio was also the major cause of Nashville's mistakes in the Predators» own end and produced the first two - goal lead for Phoenix.

Over the past two seasons, Ron Francis and Bill Peters have been methodically rebuilding the Carolina Hurricanes from the ground up, implementing a fast - paced puck possession system that takes advantage of the skills and smarts of one of the youngest teams in the NHL.

Not exact matches

Forsberg took possession of the puck on the blue line, with his skate on the ice before the puck crossed the line.

Honka and Klingberg had shown themselves to be effective getting the puck out with possession, but when the # 3 guy is Pateryn, and he can't crack 30 %, you have a problem.

The Devils have Butcher and Hall on PP1 and Hischier and Johansson on PP2 to reliably carry the puck in with possession.

I was going to absolve Sheahan, as he was responsible for the weak side point and did his job there, but I went back a bit further to see why Stewart beat Tatar to the puck, and saw that we had full possession of the puck in the d - zone, Green passed the puck to LGD which he completely misses, and Sheahan grabbed the puck only to immediately turn it over.

He got possession of the puck and fired a shot on goal which was blocked but followed with a backhand rebound that lit the lamp.

That forecheck was especially apparent on Nashville's two goals on the night where they forced the puck deep in Phoenix's zone, getting Mike Smith out of position and regaining possession for a quick shot in the net.

It goes like this: (1) we can't seem to carry possession into the O - zone, (2) so we dump and chase, (3) and then we have to go spend significant effort along the boards, (4) to try to get the puck back under possession in what is a 50/50 crapshoot, (5) and when we do repossess, (6) we have to re-organize to get a quality O - zone shot chance, (7) but we are tired because we just spent 50 - 60 % of our time working our asses off along the boards, (8) just to try to get the puck back and have a chance, (9) which said lack of energy results in actual lower quality chances (and maybe fewer penalties drawn and more penalties taken) and (10) we go back to the bench deflated because it seems like we are working really hard and getting nothing out of it.

These guys puck moving and possession skills START A BLOCKCHAIN of clean entries that leads to a maximization of effort and organization that leads to far more high quality scoring chances.

What I saw was a complete mental letdown due to a combination of (1) lack of possession skilled players and (2) a late season lack of energy — which is natural considering how hard you have to work to overcome not possessing the puck.

They battled for loose pucks and made some of the Pens» most skilled players, primarily Evgeni Malkin, fight for their possessions.

As you checked other skaters to try to gain possession of the puck, you often quickly went to a fighting mini-game where you mashed buttons in an attempt to knock your opponent down.