After 14 playoff games, MTL has a net PK% of 102.4%

[OilersCoffeeArtBeer]

Montreal would have had a legit shot at the cup any other year, but this one they will almost inevitably face a team that's 18M over the cap, and that's just too big a hurdle.

Tampa can lick nuts.
Oilers fan Here cheering for the habs. Go habitant

 

[82Ninety42011]

Utterly insane that the PK is outscoring the opposing team's PP. Maybe teams will just decline the PP

 

[82Ninety42011]

Tampa can lick nuts.
Oilers fan Here cheering for the habs. Go habitant

Canucks fan wishing same we uniting haha.

 

[CanadienShark]

Cool stat. Love this Habs group right now.

 

[Butch 19]

Go NYI

 

[Weztex]

And that's why folks, some people show smarts.

And many commonly don't.

Montreal killed their last 25 penalties, the longest sequence in team's history. They got SH goals in the process resulting in a very unusual statistic. To you it's a case of professional hockey players having laziness on the PP ingrained from a young age and reinforced throughout their journey to the NHL. To me it looks like the result of sound positioning, cutting passing lanes, pressuring the puck even in the neutral zone, not falling back on the net and excelling at retrieving loose pucks.

There's showing smart and trying to look smart. I think you did an ok effort on the latter.

 

[I am toxic]

Montreal killed their last 25 penalties, the longest sequence in team's history. They got SH goals in the process resulting in a very unusual statistic. To you it's a case of professional hockey players having laziness on the PP ingrained from a young age and reinforced throughout their journey to the NHL. To me it looks like the result of sound positioning, cutting passing lanes, pressuring the puck even in the neutral zone, not falling back on the net and excelling at retrieving loose pucks.

There's showing smart and trying to look smart. I think you did an ok effort on the latter.

They aren't mutually exclusive.

In fact, they go hand in hand in this case. MTL being smart with positioning etc, opponents being lazy on the PP.

Try not to strawman a post, and then your own posts will begin to look smarter.

 

[WatchfulElm]

Funny because, PK tends to make me ultra nervous during playoffs. It's not anymore. PK usually gives the Habs some momentum, and I think they use the reffing bias as an extra motivation.

 

[Elnino]

It's an absolutely nutty Stat tbh,

40 time short handed, 3 goals allowed 4 scored.

It's as if they played an entire game + 1 full overtime period shorthanded (with a roster player also being out) where every 2 minutes they would need to take a mandatory defensive zone faceoff and still won 4-3. Thankfully, they seem immune to horrific officiating.

 

[JianYang]

Hockey players slack off on the PP. It's ingrained in them at a very young age and reinforced all the way up to the NHL.

Smart PK'ers take advantage of that laziness combined with the nature of the PP setup - static and 150 feet from their own net. Ripe for scoring on transition.

The habs have been an awful PK team for a couple seasons.

Ducharme never really had time to put a stamp on his team when he got hired. Remember that the habs played 25 games in 43 days to finish out the season, in a division with alot of travel, so that week off before the playoffs maybe helped him implement some adjustments.

But thats not enough time to make such a transformation. It's probably just a combination of goaltending getting better, luck, and ducharme's adjustments.

 

[JustAHabFan]

It's as if they played an entire game + 1 full overtime period shorthanded (with a roster player also being out) where every 2 minutes they would need to take a mandatory defensive zone faceoff and still won 4-3. Thankfully, they seem immune to horrific officiating.

It will be a different story if we face the Lightning PP.

 

[Zalos]

It will be a different story if we face the Lightning PP.

Or so you would think.

 

[habsnacks]

Montreal would have had a legit shot at the cup any other year, but this one they will almost inevitably face a team that's 18M over the cap, and that's just too big a hurdle.

Those cheaters will get what’s coming.

 

[SaintsThomas]

Montreal would have had a legit shot at the cup any other year, but this one they will almost inevitably face a team that's 18M over the cap, and that's just too big a hurdle.

All teams have to beat them to gain the Stanley cup.

The Habs should worry about game 4 and let potential opponents remain hypothetical.

 

[Montreal Shadow]

All teams have to beat them to gain the Stanley cup.

The Habs should worry about game 4 and let potential opponents remain hypothetical.

Yeah and I don't think this is happening. Tampa is winning no matter who they face. Only way they could lose is if Price steps up yet another level.

 

[frankdave]

Yeah and I don't think this is happening. Tampa is winning no matter who they face. Only way they could lose is if Price steps up yet another level.

Which could certainly happen !

 

[kanadalainen]

Armia is a major contributor to the Habs PK and all of its (positive) quirks. Quite a rare player, hugely underrated.

 

[dekelikekocur]

That's wild

Naw, they were already eliminated.

 

[Lolonegoal]

Hockey players slack off on the PP. It's ingrained in them at a very young age and reinforced all the way up to the NHL.

Smart PK'ers take advantage of that laziness combined with the nature of the PP setup - static and 150 feet from their own net. Ripe for scoring on transition.

That's a lot words to say "I refuse to admit Montreal's good"

 

[Whalers Fan]

People who keep accusing Bettman of conspiracy theories to favor Vegas are only partially right.

There is a conspiracy and Bettman is having refs purposefully give Vegas more powerplay time - but that's all because he has a secret arrangement with Molson to help Habs win on the pk

So, Chris Lee was actually helping the Habs last night!

 

[HockeyAddict]

But giving Vegas PPs is the league's go to...

 

[Garbageyuk]

Cool stat. Love this Habs group right now.

Are you ever going to change your name back? Lol

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

1) Cool stat, good call OP
2) Small sample size of course, but
3) I wonder if this will lead to teams building around playoffs special teams more? Sounds kinda silly, but those units seem as controllable a factor as anything in the postseason- if you can reach the playoffs with one of the better special teams situations..

 

[behemolari]

If I have understood right Joel Armia is a PK scoring specialist, he made shitloads of shorthanded goals at Jets.. guess it shows

 

[I am toxic]

The habs have been an awful PK team for a couple seasons.

Ducharme never really had time to put a stamp on his team when he got hired. Remember that the habs played 25 games in 43 days to finish out the season, in a division with alot of travel, so that week off before the playoffs maybe helped him implement some adjustments.

But thats not enough time to make such a transformation. It's probably just a combination of goaltending getting better, luck, and ducharme's adjustments.

And opponents being lazy having the man advantage.