Breaking Down Flyers Frost Shootout goal vs the Oilers Skinner – Tough Call Podcast
During the shootout in the Edmonton Oilers vs Philadelphia Flyers game, Josh from Tough Call Podcast noticed something during Morgan Frost’s shootout winner.
Like with the offside thing where if you have control, it's cool to stick handle backward a bit while your skates are forward in the zone. But on this shootout goal, his skates actually point backward toward his own goal. If you skate forward and stick handle backward outside the blue line while your skates cross first, it's not offside if you have control. But you can't have your skates enter the zone, go back and leave it, and then go back in (assuming a teammate goes in meanwhile). Like, it's onside, then off, then on again. I wonder if I'm still making sense. But on this shootout goal, this is not going forward while stick handling backward with control. It's totally backing the goalie up, then turning his whole body by SKATING backwards, then coming in forward again. No good.
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Like with the offside thing where if you have control, it's cool to stick handle backward a bit while your skates are forward in the zone. But on this shootout goal, his skates actually point backward toward his own goal. If you skate forward and stick handle backward outside the blue line while your skates cross first, it's not offside if you have control. But you can't have your skates enter the zone, go back and leave it, and then go back in (assuming a teammate goes in meanwhile). Like, it's onside, then off, then on again. I wonder if I'm still making sense. But on this shootout goal, this is not going forward while stick handling backward with control. It's totally backing the goalie up, then turning his whole body by SKATING backwards, then coming in forward again. No good.