Scoring Trends and Skate-or-Slide Choices at 6-on-5

THE SEQUENCE

Lyon is facing a 6-on-5 against the Tampa Bay Lightning:

With all that additional information in mind, and looking at where the defense is playing, what is the primary threat, and why? Is it Kucherov as a shooter even from that angle? If not, what do you make of Lyon about to drop into his RVH? Is it the left shot on the back door? Or is it Stamkos higher in the zone?

Ask yourself how you are pushing out of the RVH in each case?

THE SAVE

Watch the sequence and replays below to see if the option you worried about most was the one that played out, and be sure to note how Lyon moves and handles it.

Did you identify the proper threat? Lyon came across on his feet — is that how you would have moved once you read that pass was going to Stamkos? Why?

It’s a lot different than how Lyon played Tim Stutzle of the Ottawa Senators on a pass from a similarly bad angle in his previous Pro Reads. Maybe go back and take another look at that one and see if you can identify the difference as to why.

THE PRO READ

Now let’s Lyon explains how he played this, and how it differed from the last one:

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