A teammate's stick check dislodges the ball from the attacker. It's on the ground, a free ball, and my momentum was already taking me in its direction. A clean single-handed scoop without breaking my stride starts our attack transition.  The circumstances of the play left six players from the other team behind me giving us the four-on-three advantage.

My head is up taking in the field.  Midfield is wide open and our attackers, and the defenders marking them, are in a flat line behind the restraining line.  I set a vector to the restraining line's midpoint and go to a one-handed cradle to increase my speed.  How close art the defenders behind me?

Sidelines are yelling to pass it up field to an open attacker.  No good, I am too far out and that creates a three-on-three play.  No advantage.  As I stride across the midfield line, my coach remains silent indicating he expects us to run the extra man transition we drill at practice.  Attackers execute the star-burst maneuver, our standard play for a four-on-three advantage, drawing their defenders away from my path.  Two attackers are now positioned to either side in front of the goal and one at the "X" position directly behind the goal.  This lets me know the middle is mine and no footsteps are close behind.

Approaching the restraining line I become the most dangerous player on the field.  I have the ball and an open path to the goal.  Which defender will step-up and stop me?  The threat comes from my right, my stick side, and they are wielding a defender's long stick.  I adjust my path to force him to square his feet on me, and set him up to break his ankles.

Our short-lived encounter occurs just outside the restraining line.  A hard plant to the right, a split dodge, and a slight shoulder dip takes me past him.  Now one handed cradling I my left hand and with my head up, I see the attacker on my right, the one the defender abandoned, is making a hard cut towards the goal signaling for the ball.  The goalie adjusts to the middle goal position to defend against both threats.  Two-on-one, advantage kept!  I keep the ball.

My shot was picked before the game.  Left handed goalie puts my shot on the left-post side opposite where he holds his large stick head.  Now two steps past the defender I reestablish my two-handed grip and rotate my body to prepare for the shot.  When my right foot hits the ground I transfer every bit of my momentum into my twisting body and extending arms.  The shot is off towards the goal's top-left corner.