That's on a power play, bruh.
My kid's last team played grunt hockey. Not too many skilled stick and puck handlers, so they dumped it most of the time, chased, and battled in the corners. Lots of physicality, lots of goals scored on happenstance pucks getting in front of the net and someone deflecting it in. My kid is small and slow but he battles and plays smart.
His new team is way more finesse. Few of them battle, fewer hit. If they aren't trying to score on a breakaway or breakout, it's almost like they don't care and won't rush to get into the offensive zone and just grind. I didn't realize how much there is to appreciate with the other version of hockey.
Sunday, though, some kid finally sent it in along the boards from the opposite side of my kid and he was ready. Skated down, got the puck coming around the corner and made the defenseman commit. As soon as he started skating at him, he made a quick pass to the goal and miracle of all miracles, a kid was skating to the goal, received the pass, and chipped it by the goalie. Beautiful stuff. Just hope the coach starts getting on these kids about how to play.
