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We’re practically on the midway level and, following Saturday evening’s dominant 3-0 win over visiting Houston, RSL are third within the West on 1.79 ppg. The kind of dominance they confirmed this week shouldn’t be a typical factor – they’re much extra of an “each recreation is a knife struggle” sort of crew than “each recreation is a masterpiece” sort of crew.

I’ve averted breaking them down with one of many longer sections right here for 2 important causes:

I’ll let RSL’s play-by-play announcer, Brian Dunseth, take it away. That is from final Tuesday’s Energy Rankings present:

“There’s nothing that is smart,” Dunny informed Andrew Wiebe and me after we requested him what his take is on this present season’s secret sauce. “We’re doing this hardcore deep dive analytically, , throughout the board. We are able to speak about urgent and statistics and possession and anticipated targets and all of that, however that is a kind of groups the place I can by no means learn into any of it. To your level, I do not know what that one thing is, and I do not know methods to clarify it.

“I can not let you know what it’s. I do not know. I simply see a crew that desires to struggle.”

That’s what a man who watches the Claret-and-Cobalt like a hawk each single week has to say! They’re breaking fashions and brains with how they’re pulling this off, and it looks like a lot adjustments from week to week that it’s arduous to select one specific precept of play and level to it as one thing that they construct upon.

Nevertheless, I will level out one specific sample of play that we see again and again from RSL it doesn’t matter what the formation – theirs or the opponent’s. You possibly can watch it on the opening purpose: