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.
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