I’m becoming more and more impressed with the feel of the skating this year. Last year I felt that skating off-speed could be useful in certain situations, but this year, I think they nailed it. You can use speed, starting and stopping, acceleration, and turning to really twist, turn, and jink around to avoid defenders. If you can jink and force a hulking Dman to stop dead in his tracks trying to reverse his direction on you, you will have enough momentum to go around him quite often.
You can also screw up and get levelled with a cross-check to the chest sometimes, but that’s part of the experience too.
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-Scott
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