Don't believe what local 4 said last night

[XxGoWingsxX 0]

Ok, the wings special on local 4 last night, some of their information was a lit....uhh ...WAY OFF. I just thougth i'd clear up a couple of things for the hockey fans that aren't soo into it that they know every term and play etc....On local 4, they said that forechecking is when we check a guy in their defensive zone...WRONG WRONG WRONG....forechecking is when the other team is setting up behind their net for example...to break out of their zone on the attack, and we send 1 or 2 forwards down there to pressure them into giving up the puck...has nothing to do with actual hitting. We are one of the few teams who actually do this on the penalty kill (very ballsy indeed, but for us...also very affective)

Now, BACKCHECKING....is pretty much the opposite...when the other team breaks past our blueline into our defensive zone, that means our forwards will hustle ass back to contain the rush, that is it cut n dry.

Just thought i'd clear this up for anyone who watches the games but isn't as hockeyheaded as some of us are...

I found it very amusing watching the newcasters on 4 last night reading cue cards and TRYING to act like they knew what they were talking about...it was very amusing indeed lol.

GO WINGS

WINGS IN 5

[96Homer 0]

yeah it seemed like it was aimed at 4 year olds lol. I never seen such fakeness lol.

[Lovin Jiri Fischer 147]

Okay and can you explain online checking please? Haha that thing was soo cheesy.

[HockeytownRN 0]

LOL! I caught that too and thought they could have put a LOT more effort into researching an hour long segment by at LEAST giving the right information. At least they got "seive" right!

[XxGoWingsxX 0]

Okay and can you explain online checking please? Haha that thing was soo cheesy.

lol they explained it...and it was the ONLY information they got even remotely correct lol...well except like one of you said...sieve. But yeah, it seemed that it wasn't aimted at real fans, but instead people who don't watch the sport...or just the playoff bandwagon fans.

[Lovin Jiri Fischer 147]

Yeah I was also looking forward to the penguin analysis...little did I know it was actually penguins.

[hillbillywingsfan 794]

lucy you have some splaining to do!!!

can someone tell me what temonology is? hahahah sorry. i get it done to me ALL the time. i suck at spelling.

[redwinger4747 6]

Haha nice. I've met so many people we get this wrong and I have had to explain this very thing.