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Beating the Trapdown

Beating the Trapdown

Coach's Mailbag 3

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Jack Han
Mar 18, 2022
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Read Part 2 here

Question

“How should we adjust a 1-3-1 powerplay against an aggressive PK?”

One tactic used by aggressive penalty-killing teams to prevent flank attacks is the trapdown (or flush, or press - same thing, different names).

With Blue team’s strong-side forward taking away time and space from the flank player, the Black team needs to move the p…

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