The Friday Mailbag featuring Jack Han
The Hockey PDOcast
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The Importance of a Diamond Power Play
A common theme that you see for a lot of the most effective especially consistently effective penalty kills is that sort of selective or situational pressure. Unless you're exceptionally good at pressuring the puck and then actually getting it back at four on five sometimes it's better to let your opponents have the puck and let them run out the clock by themselves. Now how would the calculus change at all for that if you saw a team running a five forward power play set like would you feel like you want to potentially pressure them even more? That's actually a potentially useful use case for more aggressive diamond PKs. Another use case is if you're down by one in the third period and you need a goal and the
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