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shadowlord · 01-22-2021, 02:39 PM

To me, there is nothing wrong with the bump back play itself. Many other teams employ it too.

My biggest beef with it is when the Flames use every single rush on the first PP unit with Johnny carrying the puck. Then it becomes way too predicatable for the opponents because they know exactly there to focus their defenders.

That being said, so far this season, I've seen a lot more variation in the zone entries. I think in pre-Ward era, the bump back was used 100% of the time... now I think it's closer to 60-70% of entries by the first unit.

When the bump back fails, visually its failure is more apparent compared to other flaws in a powerplay like not screening the net, being unable to recover the puck, not putting players on their off-wing for faster one-timers, etc. (Not that the Flames PP has any of these issues right now, it's looking good)

01-22-2021, 02:39 PM	#27
shadowlord First Line Centre Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Vancouver, BC Exp:	To me, there is nothing wrong with the bump back play itself. Many other teams employ it too. My biggest beef with it is when the Flames use every single rush on the first PP unit with Johnny carrying the puck. Then it becomes way too predicatable for the opponents because they know exactly there to focus their defenders. That being said, so far this season, I've seen a lot more variation in the zone entries. I think in pre-Ward era, the bump back was used 100% of the time... now I think it's closer to 60-70% of entries by the first unit. When the bump back fails, visually its failure is more apparent compared to other flaws in a powerplay like not screening the net, being unable to recover the puck, not putting players on their off-wing for faster one-timers, etc. (Not that the Flames PP has any of these issues right now, it's looking good)