Bruce Cassidy has used the term “reload” a lot when describing what he wants to see from his forwards.
In today’s film breakdown, we explain what he means and show how it can impact a game.
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The captain of the Golden Knights is known for so much more than his ability to put the puck in the net.
In today’s film breakdown, we look at his impact on a 3rd period power play. He didn’t even record a point on the eventual game-tying goal, but his contributions were priceless.
The Golden Knights have been stifling teams down the stretch in games when the other team pulls the goalie.
In today’s film breakdown, we look at the box-and-one system the Golden Knights deploy and show examples of what they do well inside of it to make life difficult on opponents.
This season (and each of the last two postseasons) the Golden Knights have struggled to score goals when playing against a compact defensive setup.
In today’s film breakdown, we show a single shift that displays some good aspects of what Vegas is doing in-zone and quite a few bad ones.
The Golden Knights entered the 2021-22 season with a goal of creating more turnovers in the neutral zone to feed their dominant rush offense. Stealing an idea from a pair of teams that have knocked them out in the playoffs (Dallas and Washington), VGK implemented a 1-1-3 neutral zone setup.
In today’s film breakdown, we explain how the 1-1-3 works and display the strengths and weaknesses it offers the Golden Knights.
Since Pete DeBoer took over as head coach of the Golden Knights, one aspect of the game they’ve been consistently excellent at is penalty killing.
In today’s film breakdown, we show how VGK’s commitment to taking away a single pass on the penalty kill limits the amount of space the Golden Knights must defend, neutralizes one player on the opposing power play, and leads to VGK having one of the strongest penalty kills in the league.
No matter who you play in the postseason, breaking out of the defensive zone well is a prerequisite to winning a playoff series. The Golden Knights have been better at it than Colorado through the first four games of this Second Round.
In today’s film breakdown, we show how and why Vegas have succeeded while illustrating an example of the Avalance’s failure.
The Golden Knights turned things around from Game 1 to Game 2 defensively. One of the main reasons for the difference was the way they were attacking the Avs speed through the neutral zone.
In today’s film breakdown, we look at the importance of gap control, and especially early gaps, against the Colorado Avalanche.
Nathan MacKinnon is a superstar in the NHL and the Golden Knights must always be aware of him on the ice. An uncommon wrinkle to his game is something Vegas must be especially keen of.
In this film breakdown, I take a look at exactly how the Avalanche get MacKinnon to a dangerous place on the ice with the puck and how difficult it is to defend.
The Golden Knights needed one heck of a response to get into Game 3 and boy did they deliver it in the 2nd period. From down 2-0 (could have been 3-0), the Golden Knights stormed back to score three 2nd period goals and five unanswered.
The keys to the turning of the tide was in the details, which I point out in this episode of film breakdown.
