In Craig Custance’s Behind the Bench: Inside the Minds of Hockey’s Greatest Coaches, Mike Sullivan talked about the tactical back-and-forth on special teams in a playoff series:
“There’s always that cat-and-mouse game with coaching staffs. More in a series. It’a kind of read-and-react. It happens a lot on special teams. Most of the adjustments are on special teams, whether a team is doing a special breakout, power play breakout.”
This cat-and-mouse game has come to life in this series, as the San Jose Sharks power play breakout has been continually frustrated by the Colorado Avalanche penalty kill.