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Originally Posted by Nicky  I don't know about that. Definitely there must be an intent for a shepherd to take place, but that intent could be considered in this case to come from the goalie who chooses to swim to the left because his player is blocking that side. Its a bit like running around behind your decoy runners in rugby. The decoys aren't shepherding until you run behind them. |
Is not a decoy. Its a player who poked the puck to the defender. And in a splitt second the defender swims to a side. You cant expext that a player is after a move/poke in a blink away. SO there is not an atent to obstruckt. Only a player that has done a action and can't be away in a blinck.