| reply for steve: it's always worth the effort - you might win the strike very cleanly for any number of reasons. oppn striker might lose a fin, oppn strikers might be confused about who was supposed to go for puck and none of them do.
even if the oppn get to the puck first you will still stop them getting further down the pool than they would have managed if you had just strolled out on the strike with the premise that you'd just take the puck off them at your leisure.
call me crazy, but back when i was young and pretty [cough cough] i always went full bore on the strike - i always thought i could win it and i always trusted my team-mates to do the right thing once we got there. |