[belfryhockey] In “Belfry Offense” I outline the value of the “backside of the play.” If you are Thompson, Tuch or Dahlin or anyone else playing with Jeff Skinner, move off the puck on the backside of the coverage with your stick on the ice and he will find you.
In "Belfry Offense" I outline the value of the "backside of the play." If you are Thompson, Tuch or Dahlin or anyone else playing with Jeff Skinner, move off the puck on the backside of the coverage with your stick on the ice and he will find you. pic.twitter.com/m9eIVhVDdU
— belfryhockey (@belfryhockey) September 12, 2023
by seeldoger47
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>[Working the Perimeter Outside to Inside the Dots: In Zone Play
What happens when defenders give the offensive group time to play on the outside with the puck & players without the puck time to separate from coverages to get inside.
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I don’t understand how some people can watch Skinner play and come away thinking he needs Tuch and Tage (or Eichel before them) in order to be good. He’s an [exceptionally powerful driver of 5v5 offense](https://imgur.com/a/Y1vP8Ph#v0Yrfjm).
I know this is probably going to get buried as it’s relatively unrelated, but I think this was why Eichel had so much success with Pominville and minimal success with Kane.
Pommers always skated to the net with his stick on the ice and expected a pass or a rebound shot.
Kane would skate with his stick a foot off the ice and just watch Eichel do his thing as if he’d have no input. I’d watch him do it multiple times a game, it was crazy.
Aren’t they teaching kids this anymore?
Not bad for a player who’s success is measured by the number of goals he scores.