Word: neutralizes
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Take notice, Harvard hockey fans. The Brown Bears are on the schedule. Quick, everybody grab your dry-erase markers and white boards. It’s time to talk neutral-zone trap...
What is the neutral-zone trap, anyway? Here’s the short version: a system whereby a team sends in one forechecker, in attempt to steer the play to one side or the other, then clogs the neutral zone with the other four...
...Usually, if you have one, you don’t have the other,” Leaman said. “If you make it through the neutral zone with the puck, you don’t usually have much speed. Or, you’re dumping the puck and chasing...
Especially for Harvard. Vermont coach Kevin Sneddon ’92 said the key to success against the Crimson in any game is breaking up plays in the neutral zone and forcing it to dump the puck—two trademarks of the neutral zone trap, and two things Brown did well in its 6-0 win over the Catamounts in the regular-season finale...
...They’ve got to get the D involved in the rush, and get that second wave of attack going through the neutral zone...