Another Powerful Play That Leads To Grade A Scoring Chances

LUBANSKI Introduces Yet Another Powerful Offensive-Zone Play Guaranteed To Carve Out The Time & Space Leading To Great Numbers of GRADE A Scoring Opportunities For The Good Guys!


By Paul Lubanski


Today's blog piggy-backs on this post in that it is designed to offer you another fool-proof play to easily create the time and space required to manufacture GRADE A scoring opportunities.

I refer to the play as an "o-zone exchange."

When executed successfully, this play is inarguably one of the top two or three offensive-oriented player and puck movement weapons available.

Here is how it works:


Our team (Player A) has gained possession of the puck somewhere above the goal line along either wall in the oppositions end.  Player A scans for options and determines that he/she has no immediate lane to exploit to the net or a safe passing seam out front somewhere. Additionally, he/she is being forced out "away" from the opponents cage (a well-taught defender will do this consistently) and up the boards towards the blue line. Ahh ... now the perfect storm has developed for the offensive zone exchange to WORK magnificently. Instead of merely cycling the puck back down low (which could result in a loss of possession)--the Player A makes eye contact with the strong-side defense-person and that defense-person slides quickly along the wall and as the two players pass one another--a safe board-side hand-off or exchange takes place! If done with efficiency--the defenders become confused and forced to attempt to communicate while scrambling to determine who will now be covering who! Offense wins that equation almost every time -- HANDS DOWN!

There is nothing more worrisome to the defensive team than a player moving with speed and control around the wall deep and and towards the back of the cage. So many options now then ensue.

What is cool is that the play can work just as beautifully in reverse. In other words, the defense-person flies down-the-wall and is about to run into heavy traffic so he/she hands of safely to a forward moving with a strong sense of purpose and awareness in the opposite direction towards the blue line.  Talk about options developing off of this exchange -- they become endless!

In closing, my advice is to immediately begin introducing these aforementioned plays in practice and incorporating them into game-play. Five-on-five, five-on-four or even on the PK.

ALL WILL WORK.

Best of luck.

Paul Lubanski






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