I've been thinking about this, with the abundance of high end forwards we have how will Babcock deploy the powerplay units? Last season he spread out the talent, running Marner and JVR on the "first" unit and Matthews/Nylander on the "second". With JVR out and Tavares in, is it as simple as replacing JVR with Tavares? And which unit goes out first? Should we stack the first unit like this:
Matthews Tavares Nylander
Rielly Marner
Tavares or Matthews does the "JVR job" and hovers around the net. Pretty scary looking PP if you ask me. Kadri could replace Nylander too maybe, since he's scored a ton of PP goals last 2 years.
A 2nd unit that gets like 40ish seconds of PP time could be:
Marleau Kadri Kapanen
Gardiner Johnsson
Or do you want to split the units it to look something like:
Kadri Tavares Johnsson
Rielly Marner
Marleau Matthews Kapanen
Gardiner Nylander
What do you guys think?
Matthews Tavares Nylander
Rielly Marner
Tavares or Matthews does the "JVR job" and hovers around the net. Pretty scary looking PP if you ask me. Kadri could replace Nylander too maybe, since he's scored a ton of PP goals last 2 years.
A 2nd unit that gets like 40ish seconds of PP time could be:
Marleau Kadri Kapanen
Gardiner Johnsson
Or do you want to split the units it to look something like:
Kadri Tavares Johnsson
Rielly Marner
Marleau Matthews Kapanen
Gardiner Nylander
What do you guys think?