Forecheck

Yeah.

Forecheck, backcheck, paycheck, bro.

Like, that's kind of Brandon Duhaime's game.

He's gonna be, uh, you know, he's, he's, he's gonna be an annoying player out there for the Maple Leafs.

He reads the game well, but occasionally too politely.

Forechecking, Hemming isn't super aggressive, but he's effective.

Shifts get exhausting for his opposition because he leans on defenders intelligently, closes space well, pins teams in zone.

However, Cara thinks he's not consistent.

Sometimes he can get overly aggressive when trying to force offense when it would have been smarter to pull back.

Instead, Cam Schmidt chooses violence.

Forechecking.

For someone his size, he forechecks like a beast, arrives fast, forces defenders into rushed exits just through his pace.

You don't hand a top six role to a kid without seeing his forecheck in practice.

Right.

Forecheck is key.

Nick from Kanata asks, "Ridley Greig.

We predicted he'd hit 50 points from the wing last episode.

Welcome to today's episode of 307 Hockey Daily.

The title of today's episode is Backchecking and Forechecking Matters.

So everyone loves scoring goals, but winning teams need players who are willing to defend, okay? And backchecking and forechecking are two types of defensive tactics in hockey.

Today we're going to talk about the importance of backchecking and forechecking and what coaches notice when players commit to it.

It creates more pressure on the opposing team.

It forces them to move the puck quicker, make a decision quicker, and the same is true about forechecking.

Forechecking is viewed almost as an offensive tactic, but at the end of the day, you don't have a puck when you're forechecking, so it's still a defensive.

We are trying to get the puck from the opposing team.