Slide-or-Skate Decisions on Low-High Laterals
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Joey Daccord may be out of the Seattle Kraken lineup to start 2025 because of an injury, but we didn’t want to keep him out of the Pro Reads rotation for too long because he’s been so good in this format, first sharing his play-reading insights while with the Ottawa Senators in 2021 before re-joining us for an in-person video session just before training camp this year.
THE SEQUENCE
After opening with a couple of memorable sequences from Daccord’s Winter Classic MVP performance — and we recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of that memorable game in Kraken history – Daccord’s fourth Pro Reads entry with Seattle is an in-zone sequence against the Toronto Maple Leafs after a chip into the offensive zone:
Who is the most dangerous player, and what factors about him matter the most?
What do you notice about Daccord as he pushes across from left to right?
What do you make of the decision to come across down into a Reverse?
THE SAVE
Now watch this sequence play out and ask yourself the same questions.
THE PRO READ
Now let’s hear from Daccord on how he saw this sequence unfold and he managed it:
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