I had the same thought. This is my go to move in hockey. It’s so hard to defend if you disguise your intentions well enough, sometimes even if you don’t. Hill seemed to have that avenue pretty well covered too though - he played really well like most goalies seem to do against this team.
this is all hindsight but a fake shot to get the goalie to move/freeze first would have worked.
I thought I saw the 5 hole open up as the goalie moved from his right to his left. It is a very good and simple move. As you get the goalie side to side moving his pads will split.
I would have to see the replay again to be sure but during the game I was fairly certain I saw the goalies pads open as he went from his right to left. Hard for a goalies pads not to open when moving horizontaly across the goal mouth.
I don’t think that is something you work on lol. But yeah I agree and it’s pretty transparent when comparing him to other elite players.
I looked intently on the initial replay. Stick was there and his pads were tight enough. He didn’t move much laterally. Hill played it perfectly
I don't agree, IMO it's something you could definitely improve with purposeful training/drilling. He's not going to be Bedard/McDavid over night but it could be incrementally improved upon...
And a coach not changing PP lines and putting him up there.
So your fix is putting a guy who cannot score a goal if his life depended out there?
Maybe it can help bust him out? I dont know.
46 points even with his dreadful finish rate is actually kind of impressive.
This. 45-50p ES pts is actually very good. People fail to realize that high end pt producers rely on the PP for 30-40% of their totals (and as high as 50% in some extreme cases, such as Zib currently).
