They only had three good chances, but they played pretty well in the back. They were effective with the offside trap, but there is a risk of breakaways with that. That's how Adam scored his two goals.
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It changes the whole game. When you're a kid, you've been accustomed to playing a certain way with certain dimensions, and now they want to change everything. I think it's foolish. I understand fans want to see more goals. But the way to make the game more exciting is to open up the play more and have more breakaways, more two-on-ones. If anything, making the nets bigger would make the game worse because instead of making plays to score, players would shoot from everywhere.
Armstrong rode much of Sunday's stage toward the head of the field with riders from his Postal squad. Their game plan was to stay at the front, everybody together, try to protect Lance and make sure there's no big breakaways, ... Mainly to stay out of trouble.
With no red line there should be a lot of goals. You can read the play where it is going up the wall. If you leave the zone early and a guy can make a good pass to you then you can have a breakaway if you beat the defenseman. There could be two or three breakaways for each team every game, especially if a defenseman falls down. It will be interesting.
I just have a hard time stopping him in breakaways. I stop it all night long during the game.
The boys have been playing real well in front of me, ... I think this was our best defensive night. We didn't let any breakaways or 2-on-1s.
When I was in the IHL there were a few teams that used to do that. Some goaltenders just have a knack for breakaways and it can give your team a little bit of a boost. You have to know your personnel before you can make those changes and obviously Craig thinks Morrison is the guy on breakaways.
There's always an unknown with a freshman, but she did a good job, especially clearing the ball, and handling breakaways.
I'll have to work on some breakaway moves. I think there's going to be more two-on-ones and more breakaways. It should be fun to watch though.
For European goalies coming over here the toughest thing is learning how to play the puck and deal with the traffic. You often have to fight through the traffic to see the puck. Those things you have to learn. Every European is usually good on breakaways
We have seven points in those (shootouts). My confidence is high. In Europe, (the shootout's) been in for four years and I got a lot of chances on breakaways with the Finnish team.
Today I got a shutout but I want to say the team played unbelievable today on the offensive end and in the defensive zone. Two periods they don't give any chance to San Jose and the third period we played a 5-on-3 and San Jose can't score a goal on two breakaways and that's it. I thought we played really well.
I've really seen myself as a top scorer but more as role player. With my speed, I've gotten a lot of chances at the net, getting close in on the net, beating defensemen wide and getting breakaways. I like to call myself sort of a gritty player. I use my speed to get in there in the corners, but also I like to show a little bit of grit, get in there and throw the body around a little bit. I'm not the biggest guy out there, but I still like to throw a couple of hits.
I am pleased, I was a bit annoyed yesterday as I would have caught the breakaways for sure,
Randy made a couple nice stops. They had a couple breakaways down the stretch that could have made it a 4-2, 4-3 game. He came up big when he had to. But the biggest difference was our puck control.