[quote name='Magicking610']Nice job Nate!
Wish I could play with/against the people that you were playing with, I sure could use the stat boosts for Friday.
Think we'll be as successful as last week? The 2 teams of 3 as well as the skill that we had that night really went together nicely.[/QUOTE]
I definitely think we will be. The thing about OTP is, there's just a certain style of play that works. Because of how fast some players are and how easily they knock the puck away, if you spend too much time trying to set up plays, more often than not, they become turnovers. And if you keep playing that style, you're just going to end up with your 1 hard earned goal compared to the 3 cross creases the other team scores.
It's like when the Europeans first colonized North America...and they got frustrated that the Native Americans didn't march in a straight line when they fought. You've just gotta adapt to what your opponent throws at you. It's all about shots. Good shots, and lots of them. One pass, two pass, shoot. Anything more than that and you're just asking for trouble.
Playing with randoms, I had some ridiculously run and gun games. Granted, many of these were 6 on 6 games, but after both teams scored 3 goals in the first period, both goalies quit, haha. One game, we were trailing 5-3 at the end of the 2nd, and came back to win 7-5. I even scored a freaking deflection goal on a shot from the point (my deflections are 75..I had to watch the replay to believe it, haha).
There wasn't a lot of glitch shooting (especially since many games had human goalies), but of course cross creasing was rampant. But at the same time, everybody generally knew how to defend it (although there were some games where the defensemen wouldn't stay back and gave up countless breakaways). But sometimes the other team would have an easy scoring chance, and you just had to come back down the ice and answer. I don't think there was a single game that had less than 4 goals per side. It wasn't exactly fundamental hockey, but it was fun, and there was a crap ton of scoring, lol.