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Originally Posted by kyuss275
Fundamentals was going a bit to far to make my point. But did he need to re-teach the forwards that they had to come back and play d , instead of cheating and waiting for stretch pass?
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Our forwards played D under Hartley. The inherent positioning was different in certain situations - for instance centers didn't overload on the cycle and wingers did fly the zone when the opportunity presented itself - but they didn't "cheat" as you frame it. Very few of the goals we allowed were due to failed breakouts. Most were due to simply poor puck retrieval due to passive positioning , and when breakouts failed it was usually because the system asked for a high skill level from the backend which our bottom D lacked.