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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The forecheck looked fine last year with the same players. Footspeed is not what's holding them back.
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Yes it looked fine for a few months. But I don’t think it was as effective in February, March and into the playoffs. Clearly it failed spectacularly against the Avs and even this season it’s been extremely inconsistent.
I would say the relentless forecheck that Peters, Ward and co deploy puts this team in to trouble at times. They’re constantly caught up the ice trying to forecheck and because they’re not fast enough to get back, they open up the middle and end up getting torched with goals against. That was definitely what I saw in the series against the Avalanche.
We’ve seen other teams deploy a similar system and because they’re much faster, they look unrelenting on the forecheck and the backcheck.