Re: Vermont Hockey: Taking No Prisoners In 2012-2013
Watched the game last night and was thrilled to see our young team show such poise and actually get better
as the game went on(powerplay excluded).
Hoffman looked great, while most of his shots were not A type scoring chances he did a great job on the odd
number rushes off holding the post and not giving the shooters anything. You also have too tip your cap to
the D-man in those rushes for taking the pass away and letting him focus on the shot.
As said in the game thread neither team had great flow, I would say because both teams did a good job of making
it hard for the other team to make a good pass out of the dzone to start a rush.
The Cats were much more aggressive on the forecheck, not just the first man but the 2nd and sometimes 3rd and also
showed more 2 man forecheck shorthanded instead of only sending one man like they would in the past.
Powerplay is still predictable and the passing isnt fast enough to get the goalie flatfooted but it did look better in the 3rd
and hopefully they will really spend alot of time the next 2 weeks on this.
An "A" for effort and energy with solid(Paliotta's turnover aside)Defensive zone play. Offense took a step back but we knew it would
against a much better team.
At least we are not in last place.
Watched the game last night and was thrilled to see our young team show such poise and actually get better
as the game went on(powerplay excluded).
Hoffman looked great, while most of his shots were not A type scoring chances he did a great job on the odd
number rushes off holding the post and not giving the shooters anything. You also have too tip your cap to
the D-man in those rushes for taking the pass away and letting him focus on the shot.
As said in the game thread neither team had great flow, I would say because both teams did a good job of making
it hard for the other team to make a good pass out of the dzone to start a rush.
The Cats were much more aggressive on the forecheck, not just the first man but the 2nd and sometimes 3rd and also
showed more 2 man forecheck shorthanded instead of only sending one man like they would in the past.
Powerplay is still predictable and the passing isnt fast enough to get the goalie flatfooted but it did look better in the 3rd
and hopefully they will really spend alot of time the next 2 weeks on this.
An "A" for effort and energy with solid(Paliotta's turnover aside)Defensive zone play. Offense took a step back but we knew it would
against a much better team.
At least we are not in last place.
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