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Zone Entries: Delay

Carry in wide, delay on the wall, then attack (top) or hit a catcher streaking to the slot (bottom).

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Half-ice diagram of Zone Entries: Delay. Top: a forward carries wide over the blue line, curls back up the wall to delay, then cuts to the slot and shoots. Bottom: a forward carries wide and curls to delay while a catcher skates in from the neutral zone and streaks to the net; the carrier passes to the catcher, who shoots from the slot.

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How it runs

  1. Lines of forwards with pucks at the boards in the neutral zone. For the low-to-slot variation, a catcher line waits in the middle.
  2. Delay (top): carry in wide over the blue line.
  3. Stop and curl back up the wall to delay.
  4. Attack: cut to the slot and shoot.
  5. Delay, low-to-slot (bottom): carry in wide and delay the same way. The catcher streaks to the net; the carrier passes to the slot and the catcher shoots.
  6. The other two variations in this progression (delay, low-to-high to the slot; delay, low-to-high to the D) match Low-to-High: Give-and-Go and Low-to-High: D-to-D.

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