Understanding Key Pass-or-Shot Factors off the Rush
THE SEQUENCE
In this video breakdown, Levi is facing a rush chance against Aleksander Barkov and the Florida Panthers, who are also on a power play at the time:
This next freeze frame gives away part of the answer:
With Levi in the picture now, what do you make of his depth and choice to use an overlap?
What factors do you think would go into those choices? This won’t apply to most of you — at least not directly — but does the fact it’s Barkov with the puck matter?
THE SAVE
Like all rush chances, speed matters, both in terms of the attack and potential backwards flow for the goaltender, so watch the save video.
Watch it a second time and ask yourself the same questions we posed above.
Did you read the pass option as the most dangerous threat?
Having done so, would you have stayed squared up and outside your post on Barkov?
Was there anything you can see that led to his initial positioning decision?
What about the timing of his push and the push itself?
THE PRO READ
Now let’s hear from Levi on how he saw on this sequence unfold and how he managed it:
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