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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Maybe they did it a bit less in Ontario - I haven't been running a game-by-game count, but they have definitely been doing it a lot, all year. And last year too.
Versteeg is not wrong here, you are.
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I don’t think so. Just watch them - this is assumption and confirmation bias by a lot of people. And I agree with the same people who say this about other aspects of the system, especially defensively, so it’s not just me disagreeing.
They just don’t intentionally retreat to D to D passes absent a line change, or on rare occasions when they go to pass and the pass suddenly closes off.
Generally, they take what’s available. The issues come in the neutral zone. The forwards get funnelled and don’t try to avoid it. A lot of it has to do with weakness at RW on the top two lines. Some has to do with tunnel vision and tendencies that they revert to.