Picking corners, it's where goals are scored. I mean, Holtz and Zetterlund are #1 and #2 in terms of goals scored for Utica this season.
Yup, and most of them were not picked upper corners. Did you see Holtz's goal last night? The 1-timer PP shot off the cross ice pass just has to hit the open side and a bunch of their goals have done that as well. Open nets off reebounds account for some as well. Z's 1st NHL goal was off the goalie's stick on an open side off a 2 on 1 pass. Watch the replay. Not top corner. Open spots are the answer and that's the top corner some times, five hole another, low glove side, etc. There are a whole bunch of ways goals are scored and the real good ones take advantage of every opening.
20 other AHL guys ahead of them and 19 more nipping at their heels. Now if they hit those top corners that would be another story. Missing the net wide by several feet or clearing the net off the top of the glass does not remind me of a guy just missing the top corner. It's like Vaughn's ball off the back stop and Uecker saying, "Just bit outside."
There is a big difference in missing the top corner and missing so bad you wouldn't hit a net 10 feet wide and 8ft high. Foote is even worse at it. He can find the empty net though he has 3 of those in his 14 goal total. Z has 3 of them as well. That says they do know where it is.
Z and Holtz are goal scorers and they will score them any way they can get them. The pretty picked upper corner is not the way the guys with the highest numbers accumulate most of their tallies. They simply find the open spots better than the rest and get the shots off in a flash which is THE key ingredient.
