[The Athletic] « Nous voyons tout le temps des 1-3-1. C’est juste que nous n’en avons pas vu depuis des mois. » C’est un problème que les Sabres doivent résoudre, car d’autres équipes les joueront de cette façon.
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seeldoger47
@Sabres de Buffalo
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t teams stop running 1-3-1 a while back because it was like violating some unwritten code of conduct for hockey?
Like I remember when Guy Boucher had the lightning running it back in the day. a few teams just held the puck behind their own net and refused to play as protest once it became a controversy, right?
Also the title is hilarious. “We see this all the time – I know we haven’t seen one in ages and so technically that first part isn’t true, but trust me bro”
I think they have the skill to beat a 1-3-1, its just that with our young unexperienced players they lack discipline to not force things when they are not there. To beat a 1-3-1 its about slowly chipping away at them with a boring ass game, getting rolling shifts of pressure, and snowballing them into making mistakes. We made it to easy on the Rangers to get the puck and turn it up ice immediately and gaining zero momentum.
I don’t think everything was all bad last night though, I did notice a lot of attention being paid to the defensive zone transition. They did a decent job at reducing scoring chances 5v5, but PK and PP killed them obviously.