I don’t like the style of play I am recommending, but when the ice is “tilted” in your favor and you can’t convert, sometimes it is better to give your skill players a chance to set up plays in the offensive zone and play the dreaded (and boring) center ice trap and wait for the other team to make the mistake and turn your “volume” shots into “quality” shots… at least in the 2nd period and on when we needed a momentum shifter after the first goal(s) after putting many shots on “pipe” or “pad” as opposed to “goal.”

In any event, I suspect Hak is thinking (at least somewhat…) the same and will tell the boys that 70 shots on goal in a series is meaningless if you score zero out of it. Better to have some quality odd man advantages late in the game than patting yourself on the back for outplaying someone and losing on scoreboard… the only place is matters.