2024 2025 Around the League Part 2

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Yeah, they just gotta dump it in more. They're built to play that way now and seem willing to do it when they have to.

Agree with your chip play idea. Always thought they should work on those and try them more often.

EJ might be the best in the league at that soft high lob out of the zone that doesn't get iced. Cale tried one the other game too, but it got blocked.

Instead of doing it deeper in the zone, maybe try it just inside your own blueline and have it land just on the other side of the offensive blueline, and have the forwards skate into it. Could catch the D flat footed and having to turn.

One of the best plays I ever saw Forsberg make was that QB pass from his own zone for Blake to skate into. It was only a few games into the playoffs after missing the whole year too. Incredible.

I'm not sure that was even a set play. I think Pete just took a glance at Blake, was so creative and good at reading the play that he just lobbed it to the perfect spot on the ice, and Blake saw the puck in the air where he could get to it, and just hustled to get it and score.


Nice slash by the Dman there
 
Speaking of shots, I haven’t seen much discussion about how good we’ve been at shot suppression since the deadline.

Avs haven’t allowed 30+ shots in any of the 8 games since the deadline. Pretty damn impressive.
Now 9th straight game allowing less than 30 shots. We’ve averaged only 22.6/shots against per game over that stretch.
 
Scott Hannan. That was a fairly routine slash by the D man that pretty much never got called back then btw. That's why it was so hard for D men to adjust to the new rules.
Yeah I'm aware the rules have changed. Seeing that just put it in perspective because you don't see that as much nowadays
 
Yeah I'm aware the rules have changed. Seeing that just put it in perspective because you don't see that as much nowadays

Yeah, that's why I mentioned it. It's crazy watching these old clips to see how much players got away with. Half of every Forsberg hockey highlight looks like a rodeo highlight.

I'm not sure anybody in history took more abuse, obstruction, and uncalled penalties than Forsberg, because you just couldn't stop him, and when he would play through it, they just wouldn't call it.

Slashes were the major one though that's changed. Slashes on hands, even on breakaways, almost never got called. It was just a smart defensive play.
 

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