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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Backlund rush aside, absolutely this. Moving up the middle of the ice is risky - so the Flames tend to drive it wide. It results in poor quality shots, albeit a decent quantity of them. It’s one of the big reasons why we struggle to score despite solid efforts. It’s playing hard, dumb hockey.
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It's the forwards coming down the center. They're lining up laterally on the rush.
Should be, puck carrier down the wing, far forward crashes the net hard to draw a defender away, forward coming down the middle hangs back a couple strides to get open for a shot.