Lessons have been learnt, including that a minimum safety buffer zone of 1, 640ft (500m) is established before firing smoke rounds.

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To penetrate that defensive shell, most teams sacrifice the puck, firing it into the zone in order to win it back amid the thicket of bodies near the net.

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