im good anytime after 8pm tonight
we should probably play a regular season warmup game beforehand with our starting 5 to get acclimated/shake any rust
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also 3 things we need to focus on tonight
1)NO GIVING UP BREAKAWAYS
Defensemen cannot get caught and give up easy breakaways. I will be playing D-Man so I'll do everything I can to prevent this, but Delyrk or whoever else is with me, needs to make sure they play off me in the offensive zone and not get caught puckwatching. If I happen to pinch (i will be playing more conservative) you have to fallback to the blueline to protect as the last man back and it would be helpful for a forward to rotate back as well (which most of our FWDs do instinctively already)
2)PREVENT FACEOFF GOALS
Centerman need to focus on either winning faceoffs in the defensive zone or at the very least attempting to tie-up to prevent those quick goals that have been getting scored on us lately. Center(Legit), if you have success early in the game winning draws go for the clean win, but if you are getting beat, go to the tie-up on these instead. I usually call the Aggressive Defensive formation everytime, so the FWD on the inside needs to make sure they run out immediately at that opposing FWD who lines up staggered when they use the Aggressive Offensive formation. Run at him every single time,(just assume we will lose the draw).
3)EXECUTE 2-ON-1 AND/OR 2-ON-0 OPPORTUNITIES
We will get some, probably not many, but we need to be on the same page and put the easy ones away. You have all seen that what I've told you about cross crease works. Make the pass earlier than usual, make sure not to overpower the pass and then the receiver needs to come across the net and shoot towards the side of the net the pass came from rather than try to sit across the net and go farside. 1 goal might be the difference, so we need to try to not botch easy ones like this.