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The Whiteboard Wizard: How Steven Brooks Drew Up Atlas LC’s Game-Winner

The Whiteboard Wizard: How Steven Brooks Drew Up Atlas LC’s Game-Winner

Atlas LC defeated Whipsnakes LC for the first time ever, 12-11, on Saturday.

Offensive coordinator Steven Brooks drew up not one, but two, successful out-of-timeout plays against the Whipsnakes’ defense – each with options and wrinkles we’re bound to see throughout the summer.

With 19 seconds remaining in the first half, Brooks put the ball in 2023 Golden Stick winner Romar Dennis’ crosse. Romar ran off a pick from Bryan Costabile, who immediately rolled into a righty mumbo with Chris Gray. The seal from Gray gave Costabile plenty of space to finish off the feed from Jeff Teat.

That play showcases Atlas’ field balance. Gray and Costabile can stretch defenses from the righty wing. Romar needs to be picked up near midfield. Eric Law and Xander Dickson warrant faceguards around the doorstep. And Teat can hit any of them on the ear from his lefty wing.

But Atlas still trailed 9-8 at halftime.

Brooks knew they’d need one more play. This game – like most PLL games – was destined to come down to the final possession. Early in the fourth quarter, he walked over to the whiteboard to jot down an idea.

“The guys looked at me like, ‘What are you doing?’” laughed Brooks. “I was like, ‘I’m just making sure I’m planned and ready for the end of the game.’”

The play is one Brooks has been running for years.

“The Whips are a very sound defense,” said Brooks. “What can we do to get motion going with off-ball picks and disguise our look? Make them think, Romar’s gonna pop or Costabile’s gonna pop or Dickson and Lawsy’s gonna cut.”

All that misdirection was meant to set up one hero: Chris Gray, who was 0-for-9 shooting at the time.

“I did not realize [Gray] was 0-for-9 shooting,” recalled Brooks. “I just know the type of competitor that he is. And I know his capability dodging from behind with speed.”

“He’s a special player,” said Teat. “There’s never a point in the game or in the season where we’re not going to go to him.”

After a dummy dodge down the alley and a wave of off-ball picks, Gray caught the ball at X ready to run off a pick from Costabile. This is why Atlas LC drafted the NCAA’s all-time leading point scorer with the second overall pick in 2022. As dangerous as Gray is above the cage ripping stepdowns or hitching around defenders, his ability to create his own shot is what makes him special. When he gets topside, it’s over.

“He’ll tell you he didn’t shoot it well today,” said Mike Pressler, Atlas LC head coach and general manager. “But at the end of the day, Chris made that play at the end and beat the goalie to that off-stick high spot.”

“1-for-10 is perfect for me when that one is a game-winner,” said Brooks.

Zegras is the harbinger of the techno apocalypse in hockey. His generation is changing the game right before our eyes – Hockey News

Hockey will never be the same again, the revolution happened while you were sleeping; she was peaceful and calm. The empty stands of the Montreal arena greeted her with respectful silence.

Yes, Trevor Zegras performed another masterpiece. This time – lightning lacrosse from behind the gate.

All right, it happened. The thin American and his peers – including our Andrey Svechnikov – made lacrosse an ordinary hockey technique, the same stick-horse-stick (a feint, which for some reason is officially called the other way around – “horse-stick-horse”). From now on, it will be mandatory for the arsenal of any self-respecting techie.

Starting from this moment, goalkeepers and defense are simply obliged to practice countering this technique – not in an optional mode, as it was before, but in all seriousness. Because the technical and psychological development of hockey players has made lacrosse possible in almost any situation; until the final approval of lacrosse in hockey, it remains to wait until it happens in the NHL playoffs – but Svechnikov or Zegras (Anaheim has a chance to exit) can create it this spring.

Most of all in the fresh puck Zegras is attracted just by the everydayness of the performance. Yes, it still looks enchanting, but he didn’t even need a pause outside the gate, he didn’t have to go to some special position or trajectory: Trevor just drove out of the gate and thought along the way – why not? He put the puck on the hook and pulled it out of the net – in one smooth and elusive movement. Kuznetsov, in the same mode, you may remember, makes blind discounts behind the back from behind the gate, for a penny to a partner – it is difficult to defend against them precisely because it is impossible to read, it is impossible to react to it. Half a second – and the puck is already on the penny.

Half a second – and she is already at the gate.

Zegras’ goal looks like he’s hit them 15-20 already – his first lacrosse in the NHL.

It was the same with his pass from behind the net to Sonny Milano – an exclusive thing that looked like it had been worked out in training and used regularly.

Henrik Lundqvist said in an analysis about that pass – that’s it, now goalkeepers need to prepare for such tricks, keep in mind that this is possible, and think about what to do, because the goalkeeper could intercept this.

I don’t know exactly what goalkeepers and defensemen will come up with to effectively cover such things, but I see this as excellent news for hockey. The game is developing and before our eyes it is reaching a new technical level, a new level of using the playing space. Zegras, Svechnikov and the new generation of hockey players in general open up new facets of the game, new dimensions.

This does not mean that in the NHL-2030 the puck will fly through the air and hit the goal only after lacrosse; this means that the hockey that we have seen over the past 10-15 years is not its final version. This means that the existing framework and rules have not been fully explored, which means that the development of the game is possible in this configuration. This means that these frames do not need to be deformed to make hockey even more interesting. Hockey 3-on-3? Good idea, but there seems to be too little room for development.

I don’t know what future hockey will look like with Trevor Zegras leading us by the hand; I’m sure I’ll be showing Buffalo 2011 to my grandchildren and they won’t recognize their favorite game; just like I don’t recognize hockey by looking at the 1972 Super Series.

The good news, in short: life goes on.

Photo: REUTERS/Jean-Yves Ahern-USA TODAY Sports; Gettyimages.ru/Harry How; ska.ru

Spectacular goal of Russian hockey player Datsyuk against St. Louis: video, Datsyuk’s best goals: video – 19June 2020

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The magician is in action.

In the spring of 2020, it became known that Pavel Datsyuk would remain in hockey for another year as an active player. The news pleased fans of the Wizard’s talent, but every year the game of the striker, who will soon turn 42, becomes less and less bright – age affects, no matter how someone would like a different development of events.

It is doubly offensive that recently non-hockey news about Datsyuk overshadows the events with his participation on the ice rink. Then Pavel will suddenly turn to Vladimir Putin with a request to cancel SNILS. It will end up in a temple seized by a priest who denies the coronavirus. After each such event, you want to turn on a video with the best moments of the game of a unique attacker and stick for a long time. Fortunately, there were a lot of bright episodes in Datsyuk’s career.

Vladimir Bezzubov, photo.khl.ru

In May of this year, Sportsnet, the largest Canadian sports broadcaster, presented its version of the “Best Russian Goals in the NHL from 2010 to 2020” rating. Contrary to all the laws of the genre, we will immediately remove the intrigue and tell you who took the first two places in this top. The victory was deservedly won by Carolina forward Andrey Svechnikov, who a few months ago became the first player in the history of the National Hockey League to score a goal using lacrosse, and a month and a half later he repeated this masterpiece.

The authors of the rating gave the second line to Pittsburgh forward Evgeny Malkin. Five years ago, in a game with Edmonton, he himself took the puck from an opponent in the middle zone, he himself performed a spinorama and he himself shot with a rebound from the crossbar. Very pretty!

Well, Datsyuk is in third place. It’s worth mentioning right away – the hockey editors of Sport24 do not entirely agree with this scenario, it is obvious that even in the top of Sportsnet there are pucks more beautiful than Pavel’s goal, but his hit in the top three still says a lot. First of all, about the respect that the Russian has earned over the years of performing in North America. And, of course, about his amazing hockey skills – the puck turned out to be very effective.

She was abandoned on March 12, 2011 in an away game for Detroit against St. Louis. At the end of the third period, Datsyuk received the puck in the right face-off circle, easily got away from one opponent, forced him to sit on the knees of another and threw it past the goalkeeper. Only real Wizards can deal with “enemies” so easily.

Is it any wonder that after that game Datsyuk, who scored the winning goal, was praised by both opponents and partners.

Yaroslav Galak, St. Louis Blues goaltender:

“It was a tough game for me. At the moment with Datsyuk’s goal, there were two of our guys in front of me, so I just tried to block the free space.