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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think that's the puck management Giordano is talking about.
You have to make a read through the neutral zone as to the likely out come.
Do you have numbers?
Are the D backing up or challenging?
Is there back pressure?
Where are you on your shift?
What's the pulse of the game?
If you have a "I'm beating this guy no matter what" and turn it over you kill a team on the odd man rush.
They call it the grey zone, lose the grey zone and you lose hockey games.
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Agree in talking about why we give up lots of odd man rushes (lots of terrible decisions) but my point was that our neutral zone defensive system makes all those questions easier for the other team to answer.
Are the D backing up or challenging? Flames are Always Backing Up
Is there back pressure? Flames rarely have smart back pressure
This means that the other team is never pressured in the neutral zone to have to make those decisions, they can just easily waltz into our zone because we let them.