BEARS
PLAYER PROFILES
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Versatility is a Sobola hallmark. He has played defense and right wing, and he fuels the power play and kills penalties. Sobola is a tremendous package of offensive and defensive skills. He can go from checking the opponent's top centre to powering the power play from shift to shift. His skating is nothing short of phenomenal, and he can handle the ball while dazzling everyone with his blades. Sobola likes to gear up from his own defensive zone, using his acceleration and balance to drive wide to his right, carrying the ball on his backhand and protecting it with his body. If the defenseman lets up at all, Sobola is by him, pulling the ball quickly to his forehand. Nor is he by any means selfish. He has 360-degree vision of the court and makes solid, confident passes right under opponents' sticks and smack onto the tape of his teammates'(the prime example being the 40-foot pass he scaled past two Sports Fed. defenders to Tjeerd Blackford for a goal in the Unihok final). Sobola will swing behind the opposing net from left to right, fooling the defense into thinking he is going to continue to curl around, but he can quickly reverse with the ball on his backhand, shake his marker and wheel around for a shot or goalmouth pass. He does it all in a flash, and skating with the ball doesn't slow him down one whit.
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