Reply To: Red Bulls win a big tournament

[TomM]

Paulie that is how the Torpedo was developed. The Swedish team didn't have enough defenseman so instead used centre's. They averaged 11 min. in their end.

It is hard to keep constant pressure if the forecheckers all have to go from one side to the other. By having a midfielder on each side you take away the rim and the D to D to W or C that always beats a hard forecheck when the high F always has to go all the way across the ice.

Cause a turnover in their defensive zone and u get a scoring chance about 25% of the time. Cause one in the nzone and u get a scoring chance about 7-10% of the time. So all these forechecks that trap in the nzone are inefficient.