PP?Weise is a moron but he can be effective. He should've scored Laughton's second goal, had a great look, decides to wind up (???) and shoot it into shin pads and then run into Lindblom. Puck still ends up in the net but it was a comedic sequence.
I hate Weal. He does just enough smart-ish hockey stuff to seem like an OK player and then at the key moment he makes the worst decision available to him every time. He also turns into traffic in the offensive zone ALL THE TIME. Like, he's an AHL player doing AHL **** in the NHL. Every decision a second or two too late, always.
NAK can play 14 seconds for all I care.
The first PP sans Voracek/Simmonds is bad. They need to just revert to that. If anything, drop Couturier to the second unit and run Patrick/Simmonds as your netfront duo. Konecny doesn't have the passing touch (sending or receiving) to work the cross-ice stuff with Giroux and Ghost.
Agreed. They don't have any freestyle chemistry at all, and therefor need to revert to PP1 lineup to give them a chance at 15% success.
I cannot understand how any group of 5 NHLrs cannot do better than PP2 has...they have zero confidence, no entry chutzpah. I am no coach, but I would give Provy a big rest, he is just a stilted mess. Little attention to subtletly, great straight-up defender but he has no "tricky" or guile in his offensive play, he just bulldozes.