If your opponent is putting on a lot of pressure on you in your defensive zone - then he's probably overloading the part of the ice where your puck holder is. This means that the other side of the ice shouldn't be as crowded. It's tough to get your passes through but on the other hand you will get alot of 2 on 1's and breakaways if you can get a puck through with your opponent deep in your defensive zone. There's big risk of failure though since you opponent probably got at least 2 players challenging your puck holder.

Try getting the puck over to the other side of the ice, but avoid cross ice passes. You could try a drop pass into offensive zone on your weakside wingers side if there's enough space between your puck holder and the opposing players. If there isn't, try passing round your opponent. What I mean is that you should pass the puck backwards, then over to the other side, and then up the ice (like the letter U). If there's an opponent between your puckholder and the receiver when you're going to send the puck upwards towards offensive zone - use the boards and a slap pass to get by him

If you don't have any options at all, use a slap pass and the boards to a) get the puck into offensive zone or b) get the puck over to the other side.
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