Defense Pressuring Up Finishing Check and Going Up on Rush:

Tactics:  Read the Defensive Rush

Keys:

• Keep tight gap 
• Play aggressively, but  in control
• Take circular approach or have good angle 
• Force the attacker on to the boards or backhand
• Keep eyes on the Body at all times
• Defenders should time their check.
• Body 1st , Stick 2nd and Puck 3rd
• In 1 v 1 the low man usually wins the battles

Reads:

• Off Puck Players
• Speed of offensive player
• Stick

Terms:

• Read, Communicate, Pressure Up, Contain 

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Power Thoughts:

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.  -Steve Prefontaine

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.
                                                                                       -Steve Prefontaine