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     The non-puck-carrying forwards must skate as fast as possible to make opportunities for passes.  Remember, you should be able to skate faster without the puck than with it, so you should be able to get ahead of the puck-carrier.  Keep your eyes on him and your stick on the ice. 

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     The most common weakness in the neutral zone while attacking is coasting while watching one of our hotshots trying to stickhandle his way alone into the attack zone.  What a waste!  This gives our opponents a three- or four-against-one advantage against us in their zone, and it's not fair to our player who is working so hard to attack.

     Instead, always skate forward hard, and towards the net.  It is the responsibility of the puck-carrier to see the head man and give him a pass.  If you are approaching the blue line and he doesn't pass, don't just stop dead.  Turn along the blue line
without crossing it, still at high speed, still looking for the pass.  It's important to keep your speed up so you can continue a hard attack once the puck enters the attacking zone.

DON'T COAST WHILE WATCHING JOHN DO IT.  SKATE HARD.  THE SPEED YOU GET IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE WILL HELP YOU IN THE ATTACKING ZONE.

     This is as good a place as any to say the following.  In hockey you are doing one of two things.  Either you have the puck and are skating as hard as possible to do something with it, or you don't have the puck and are skating as hard as possible to
get to the next position you're supposed to be in.  Notice that no matter what, you are skating as hard as possible.

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     Avoid long, across-the-ice passes.  It's too easy for the other team to pick them off.  Pass to your line-mate on the same side as you are or to the one in the middle heading for the slot.