There is two reasons I don't have the Lightning as a contender:
1) Their goal differential is kind of a joke when compared to their position in the standings.
2) Their position in the standings has a whole lot to do with them taking advantage of the points system as it is right now. 19 of their 57 games (a full 3rd) have gone either to OT or SO. And while it is admirable that you can get points out of losses or win it in extra time, it also means that they've been bleeding a lot of points to other teams and given other teams the opportunity to win. This could very well bite them in the ass in the playoffs.
The game tonight only showed why we don't necessarily have to be afraid of them.
What kind of defending system does Tampa use? It's kind of strange to see.
they use a 1-3-1 which is a trap like system... its clogs the neutral zone up, and takes alot of patience, and is meant to be a counter punch type style.... it usually makes for a boring game
What I am almost sure of is if we met up with them in a playoff series lavy would employ some sort of strategy to beat this specifically.... regular season is a little different.
they use a 1-3-1 which is a trap like system... its clogs the neutral zone up, and takes alot of patience, and is meant to be a counter punch type style.... it usually makes for a boring game
What I am almost sure of is if we met up with them in a playoff series lavy would employ some sort of strategy to beat this specifically.... regular season is a little different.
I knew they were playing some sort of trap game. Lavi likes to switch systems up. They said when we played Chicago we played a new system that had all of Chicago confused. Not to mention, Lavi likes his left wing lock. Which he ran a lot in the Montreal series IIRC.
We definitely had a tactic to counter their anti-hockey system. Clement pointed it out a few times in the commentary, just use speed to get behind them.
We actually held Stamkos pointless and to only 3 shots. Well played boys.
Solid win. Versteeg didn't seem to factor in from what I could tell, but I'm sure it will take a few games and practices to get his juices going on this team.
What kind of defending system does Tampa use? It's kind of strange to see.
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Originally Posted by Orangecrush18
they use a 1-3-1 which is a trap like system... its clogs the neutral zone up, and takes alot of patience, and is meant to be a counter punch type style.... it usually makes for a boring game
What I am almost sure of is if we met up with them in a playoff series lavy would employ some sort of strategy to beat this specifically.... regular season is a little different.
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Originally Posted by JVR21
1-3-1 trap mostly. We probably could have sat with the puck nehind the net the entire game if we wanted to.
Kind of, but it depends on who we play and how recent. It was pretty obvious Philly saw video from our last tilt with Washington because the previous two meetings with them, we let them come at us. They tried to flip the puck over the forwards and the far defenseman into the opposing corner and try to overload that corner to set up in the zone, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. The most recent game, Washington let us come at them and tried to pick us apart in the neutral zone which sort of worked.
It was interesting to see Philly do it, because they approached it differently. They forced the top guy to attack but swept a forward under almost like a reverse in a football game and tried to get that to force two of the middle pairing over and potentially the lone defenseman in back to the boards to overload that side and hopefully leave 1-2 guys, ideally a forward and a defenseman to create a mismatch at the blueline and try to spread out from there. It worked a couple of times and we couldn't clear the zone for the life of us, but we're really lucky we have some quick forwards on the bottom six to block shots and get back into position.
I expected Philly to run more of a spread tonight to see how they could fine tune things against us, but they never did. Kind of surprising. There is no doubt you guys are a much deeper team than us but we're absolute ******** at clogging the lanes and wreaking havoc in most places people would take shots. At the same time, you guys did enough defensively that we never got comfortable setting up, our point men never started to slide into the zone instead of along the blueline, and we couldn't complete a pass for the life of ourselves for the first half of the game.
