Flyers Counter Lightning's Trap

Philadelphia Flyers counter the Tampa Bay Lightning's trap.
Flyers don't want to fall into the quick counter that Lightning have, and just wait in their zone.

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• Martin St. Louis

[awesomesauce764]

still more entertaining then baseball

[cosmopotking]

IT'S A TRAP!!!

[SuperTugz]

Please plug your controller back in.

[TheErcinator]

@LaNgEr1441 actually their plan was this and to lure them out of the trap.

[LaNgEr1441]

I love it. The NHL is about winning games, and if the trap is what is going to win games for the lightning, or for any team go for it. This, to me, shows that the flyers weren't ready for this defense. Just because the lightning weren't pressuring them doesn't mean that the flyers shouldn't attack. They didn't attack because they didn't have a plan on how to get past that defense which means that the lightning did their job.

[101Ihatejustinbeiber]

@elshamus LOL. To afraid to forecheck? This game showed the NHL that the 1-3-1 is a "pussy" tatic.

[CatieCass]

Best. Counter. Ever. I HATE the 1-3-1! What we really told the Lightning here was, "We don't have to put up with that. If one of us is going to win this game, we're going to win because we played good, solid hockey." That's the way to win. GO FLYERS!

[Gramskiii]

@ashc1153 A more thorough explanation would be: The lightning are doing a neutral zone trap or 1-3-1. You can see that they put one player on their blue line, another on the opposing teams blue line, and the remaining 3 players on the red line. The problem that the Flyers are pointing out by not moving is that the Lightning aren't forechecking (putting pressure on the puck) and therefore giving the Flyers no reason to move the puck themselves - unfair advantage for the Lightning

[lojosol]

@ashc1153 its a trap that forces the offence to dump the puck into the zone rather than rush towards the net. therefore giving the team who has deployed this stance offencive control of the puck



[ashc1153]

i don't understand the rules of hockey that well so can someone explain to me why this stance brought the game to a stand still?

[TopCheeseSnipe]

That's the best trolling in hockey.

[elshamus]

this video is hilarious for 3 reasons:

1) Flyers are the ones holding the puck yet Lightning gets blamed

2) Flyers tried the same thing tonight with the Lightning and got obliterated again.

3) the Flyers have now gotten beaten twice by the Lightning this season. I just find this hilarious because the Flyers are a bunch of crybabies.