You hold your position and hope that your teammate can get the puck out of the danger zone and pass it back to you for a reset.

You are a little optimistic though, and while your teammate does make it there in time he is quickly surrounded by the overwhelming numbers of the other team and quickly loses the puck.

By holding back you are able to quickly move back to defense while the other team gets set up to make a play of their own.

The other team holds the puck for a bit and get trapped in the neutral zone when the coach calls you back in to get fresh legs on the scene.

No goal for this shift, but at least the other team did not score either.

Not much happens for the majority of the rest of this period.

Head into the final 2 minutes of the third period