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Originally Posted by saXon
Some results have been positive as of late, but I still can't stand the hook pass backwards on the PP. It pisses me off. Any momentum going forward is killed by passing it back to the trailing man. The opposing team isn't blind, they can see it a mile away and it gives them a chance to set up to stifle it at their blue line.
I've had to watch Brodie, Wideman, and Gio perform this crap all too much game in and game out. It seems the only D man willing to do the breakout pass for the puck to be carried in is Hamilton.
It needs to stop.
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It's the length of the bump back, plus the absence of any followup pass by the trailer to an up ice man that's the issue, not the concept of the pass itself. I just think their execution has been lacking on it.
Eg. If a puck is bumped back to Hamilton on the right side and he's going at spped, he draws the defenders to that side, and if he can pass quickly enough across to JG up on the left, JG then has an easier zone entry and set up. If the defenders don't bite, Hamilton might catch some flat footed and enter himself.
But if the pass is too far back, before he has speed, or if he doesn't have speed because he's not moving forward at the time, or if he can't make the quick pass himself, the play doesn't work.