Hockey IQ
How do I read the play and decide?
Support, space, scanning and risk. Knowing your position and the systems without this means executing the wrong thing at the right time.
The 5 documents in this section
Puck Support and SpacingMost of what a teammate does happens without the puck. A carrier with two places to put it can beat pressure that would strip a better player with none.Time and SpaceHockey has one currency: time and space — the room you have when the puck reaches you, and the moment you have to use it.Scanning and AnticipationPlayers who seem to see the whole ice have usually just looked already, while the puck was somewhere else.Risk Management and Decision-MakingEvery time you touch the puck you place a bet, and what you stand to lose depends more on where you are standing than on what you try.Playing Without the PuckYou spend almost all of your ice time without the puck. NHL tracking data — which the league itself calls unofficial — puts a forward at about forty seconds of possession in every…