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This guy is really reaching equating zone exit prevention with fore checking.

He's talking about an aggressive fore check being the key to preventing controlled zone exits by the opposition.

Then he has the Ottawa Senators at 12th in the league at this metric.

Guy Boucher is the coach in Ottawa.

Here's a video of his forecheck in action:



The author has a link to another article about the benefits of aggressive forechecking, and I think he is using this data set to confirm his belief in a strong forechecking system when that isn't necessarily what this data set is actually showing.


Perhaps the data isn't even accurate as the Ottawa Senators play a system that generally is willing to allow another team to gain their own blue line in possession of the puck as a matter of principle.

Yet they are 12th best in the league at forechecking/zone exit prevention?



Generally it appears that preventing controlled zone exits is a good thing, but what are you sacrificing when you seek to prevent controlled zone entries as much as possible?

Maybe your team gives up more controlled zone entries at your own blueline.

The article for me raised more questions than it answered.