Most girls hockey players just play with the big (safe) gap and never try to tighten it up. They just play passive. Defense will back in on their own goalie and forwards will reach with their sticks on the forecheck instead of making contact. When you are passive, you are giving control to the attacking players. When you control the gap, you control the play.
Tryouts take all of our stress levels through the roof. We're all worried that we might make the wrong choice, that what people are telling us is not the truth, and that we won't end up with the team we'd hoped for. The truth is - we're all in the same boat as players, parents and coaches.
When the NHL changed their rules on obstruction and interference years ago, women’s hockey followed suit. While the change in the men’s game has been a huge success, it has done more to hurt female hockey than to help it.
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