If you’re new here, welcome! If you’re not, but need a refresher on what Systems Analyst is all about, welcome back anyway! This is a weekly feature in which we take a play from the preceding week (i.e. goal, scoring chance, goal against, etc.) and dissect the whole thing to see just what made it happen the way it did. Enjoy!
For as important as plays with the puck are, it’s often the ones made without it that can make or break any scenario in hockey.
For example, look back at the Carolina Hurricanes’ Victor Rask’s go-ahead goal against the Minnesota Wild in the Canes’ season opener.