Hockey prompt:

The reason we don’t see more of those plays coached and drawn up by coaches is they’re really difficult to do effectively, they take someone with incredible skill to pull off, they rely on an element of surprise to be optimally effective and are probably not gonna be worth the effort it’d take to coach someone to do them over a long period of time. All the crazy stuff we’ve seen from Zegras et al in my mind kinda relies on goalies not expecting it at all; they’re always caught totally out of position because they lose the puck as it just doesn’t seem possible for the skater to turn his position into a goal scoring opportunity. If these were regularly coached and encouraged if by some miracle teams were actually able to field a roster with multiple players skilful enough to pull them off, goalies would be a lot more conscious of them and we’d end up seeing a lot less of the attempts being fully converted to a goal.