{"id":103,"date":"2018-11-09T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/puckpossessed.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2018-11-27T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:48:47","slug":"puck-possessed-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/puck-possessed-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Puck Possessed #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brock Boeser<\/strong> scored a great shot from the circle against Colorado on November 2nd, but I loved the way he got the puck from <strong>E. Pettersson<\/strong> even more. Not only because it was a great play, but because it way such a <strong>smart play<\/strong>, especially considering how young Pettersson is.<\/p>\n<p>Hockey is a lot about creating good quality shot opportunities, which often means finding open space in close proximity to the net, getting the puck to a team mate in that area, ideally free from any opponents.<\/p>\n<p>As this issue of <strong>Puck Possession<\/strong> illustrates, Pettersson choose an interesting way to put the puck on Boeser&#8217;s stick in such a position. I addition, I can only imagine how hard it is for a goalie to see a puck come from more or less behind you, with an unpredictable bounce, especially into the stride of the on-storming opponent.<\/p>\n<p>And for Boeser, despite his skills to receive a puck from anywhere, getting the puck\u00a0 from in front of you while in full stride must making taking a good shot slightly easier as well.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly there is one more benefit I can think of: if the pass does not work out (weird bounce etc.) Boeser would still be fastest to the puck, avoiding icing, and put him in possession in a spot from where he can give a good pass. The other options would like end up in a turn over.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, Pettersson chose the best solution, and in this case it worked out perfectly (unless you root for Colorado!).<\/p>\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PetterssonSmartPass480p\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/necJSaLPayE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at a wonderful and smart goal by Boeser and Pettersson for the Canucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,16,14,5,18,15],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puck-possessed-hockey","tag-board-pass","tag-boeser","tag-canucks","tag-nhl","tag-pass","tag-pettersson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biathlonanalytics.com\/TEST\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}