F3 plays a crucial role in stopping the opponent's attack.
Episode 10 of Finding the Details with Laura Schuler sees Laura take a look at tracking through the neutral zone and the importance of your F3 high positioning in the offensive zone.
"Tracking, to me, can basically be boiled down into two situations. Either your F3 is going to find themselves tracking from above the middle driver situation or your F3 is going to be tracking from below the middle driver situation," says Schuler. "When tracking from above, this is a more ideal situation because you're either going to create a numerical advantage...or, minimally, you're going to create three 1-on-1 situations coming down the ice."