Originally Posted by Anonymous
Going to be interesting down the stretch. Many teams have a legit chance to win it all. Watch the goal scorers all that you want. The team that plays the best team defense (including riding /re-defending and goalie play) will win the National Championship.



I agree. Way too much attention is focused on goal scoring stats. It starts in High School where there are no defensive stats, there are still way too many parents that never see the "whole" game and love to see their kid make an individual effort to score a low percentage goal.
You can see it with a lot of the weaker college teams, they still use poor offensive strategy and try to power through the defense with an individual effort and take a weak shot. Unfortunately sometimes that works and people celebrate that goal.