Breakaways

PTI Chairman said that many of those deserting the party were now lobbying for more breakaways.

Thus far his men were being pressed back near goal and hoping to thrive off breakaways.

Amid a sequence of scoring chances and zone resets, the Bruins earned two bids on high-danger scoring chances, both on Pastrnak’s breakaways.

And no goalie is going to stop many two-on-zero breakaways.

While Chicago outshot Calgary 32-31, the Blackhawks had a wide edge in the quality of chances with Markstrom turning aside five breakaways in the first 40 minutes.

It is one thing for point guards to dunk on breakaways, in the open court.

Play was close, with more fouls and few breakaways in a very physical game.

They’ve finally made it but the squad looks underpowered so a stage win for Pierre Rolland or sprinter Bryan Coquard is the dream; daily duties in doomed breakaways with Total Direct Energie and Israel Start Up Nation are a more likely reality.

Turnovers left them looking scattered and losing their coverages and, at their very worst, just giving them breakaways straight up the middle.

Toronto gave up two breakaways, an odd-man rush and three goals in the third period of a 5-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.

Many of those saves this weekend came on breakaways, on which Wright said Wolf wasn’t expected to make the stops.

Murray made 33 saves, including stops on breakaways by Jamie Benn and Alexander Radulov in overtime.

One goal came on a penalty shot, a few others were on breakaways, and some were just great shots.

Then, in the second period, I had to stop those two breakaways.

This weekend’s Tour de France stages were relatively inert, as two Astana riders won from breakaways and the main general classification contenders opted to save their bullets for this week’s ramble through the Pyrenees.