Word: forechecked
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...ECAC’s best-offense. And the ECAC’s worst defense. In its 7-5 comeback win, Harvard exposed Yale’s almost complete inability to play defense and to stop the Crimson’s swift forwards from building up speed with an aggressive forecheck...
...puck down low, our forecheck did a good job on the play,” Roche said. “I walked out of the corner and put it in. I always try to put it short side on top. I tend to do it on all goals...
Harvard started the second even slower, forcing Gibson to make only two saves in the first 13 minutes before showing flashes of the forecheck that made it successful at Yale. But only flashes...
Harvard backliners either scored or had the primary assist on five scoring plays—the direct result of a critical adjustment by head coach Mark Mazzoleni to adopt a 2-3 forecheck, in which defensemen pinched when they saw loose pucks along the wall. More often than not, the Crimson won the one-on-one battles and put shots...
...large part of Harvard’s newly explosive offense was the effort, and risk, of the team to “pinch” its defensemen along the offensive boards. Employing a “two-three” forecheck, the Crimson hoped to sustain increased offensive pressure on Yale and to fire a number of shots on netminder Josh Gartner...