Reply To: Cougars Pounce – Clarification

[RK]

Tom, Dean other coaches,

Question for everyone and thoughts. The team that I help in practice's or in the semi finals now. They are behind in the series 2-1.

The team that we are playing have one very dominant player who is big allot of skill and has scored 95% of all goals and points. If you take him out of the picture it would be two equal teams. Even with him playing we can play with them until he scores and then you can see the confidence level drop off of our team.

I can only make suggestions as the coach will come to me for advice .

How would other coaches deal with this situation ?
Would you put a man on him all times , leaving it a four on four ? (man on man )
They go with two lines we have three lines.
At this point you have to try something in my opinion. I would rather fail trying something , than not making changes.

Thanks in advance guys…

RK
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Our team had the same situation in our first playoff series. The leagues top goal scorer played for that team. We focused on having strong D out against her and really back pressured to create a defensive 2-1. She only got two goals in three games and both were off one timers on the face off. Never scored on a rush.