Defense on the High Post

[michaeldwilson]

If the other team sets a high post in front of the goal, what (generally speaking) has been your more effect defense for this? A switch, or for the D-Man to go under the post?

Thanks,

Mike

[FlucoDpole]

My answer depends on how high the post is,and what the rest of the offensive formation does. If they're routinely running cutters with a picking creaseman and shooting from a bit high rather than low,I may put my crease longpole up higher. Usually that feed is coming from behind,so the backer would be on the low post already.
We run a backer zone,so I don't generally think of it in terms of man to man coverage as the switches occur between zones,and usually are more in the form of a localized collapse on the ball.