In the last article, we briefly discussed breakouts and forechecks. For this particular article, we are going to add some additional rules to filter out the noisy events that may fall into these categories. The events we are looking for have:
- The puck residing below the faceoff dots to start the breakout sequence
- At least one forechecker below the faceoff dots
- The player trying to break out the puck must make an obvious hockey play (ex. skate, clear, pass)
- The forecheck must be actively trying to get the puck back (not making a change)
So the following play won’t be included because the puck resides above the faceoff dots when Tavares turns over the puck to Marchand.