Episode 62: Zoning Out With Sean Tierney

Sean Tierney from The Athletic joins us this week to break down the importance of transitional play (zone exits, zone entries, zone denials, all that fun stuff!) Here's a list of the topics we discuss:1:51 - Why Zone Exits & Entries matter.6:00 - Jake Gardiner's excellent transitional play.13:44 - Morgan Rielly's interesting results.15:56 - Ron Hainsey.20:51 - "Positionless" hockey.26:12 - Nikita Zaitsev's weird numbers.35:22 - Why Roman Polak doesn't drive results.40:52 - Zone Entries & Toronto's style of play.54:37 - Optimizing the Leafs lineup.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices