What started as a tweet about soundbites for offense, evolved into a thread and will now become a series on our newsletter.
In our unintentional part 1, I wrote about a soundbite for offense.
Today we break offense down into a subset called the entry.
Entries are plays that are typically created due to a clean exit which creates some speed through the neutral zone. If we do a good job in the NZ and create a favorable gap to attack upon entering the OZ, we can deploy a few soundbites. These are for our players to remember. Help ideas “stick” with players by creating alliteration and rhyming soundbites.
Example Video from Above Tweet Ideas:
Middle Madness
Most players in #13’s shoes would keep the puck wide and try to find late help on their inside edges and gliding. But they do this so well that he’s already positioning himself to move to the middle before his first touch. The defensemen keeps backing up, creating a more favorable gap with every passing second. One player moving laterally, the defender moving north-south. Chicago is a “middle madness” textbook.
Diagonals Destroy Defenses
17 reads the diagonal route on entry and overlaps the puck carrier, he moves into the new outside space(but still in the dot lane where he is more dangerous)
The prime scoring real estate near the Subway logo is created by a diagonal entry by the puck carrier.
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