This Royal Road is not news for hockey people. I already did read this article at 2016, and I think it was written year earlier, and it now has some august 2019 update with a podcast.
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Also saw some old data elsewhere years ago, where Teuvo Teräväinen was making these Royal Road passes most per icetime on his Chicago Blackhawks days of all Hawks players. He has been quite a PP killer last 3 seasons at Carolina.
When I was watching the game yesterday, the Red Wings PP is still very predictable, if we don't have any legit right-handed shooters. Everybody knows we will try to create that one-timer from left side to right for a lefty to shoot. There's no threat on left side, because there's no righty. Only way to create some threat is that play where Rasmussen socred. Hirose passed the puck near the goal and this behind-to-front move from Rasmussen was kind of net-front royal road move and resulted a (lucky) goal. It's put the goalie on move, and opens the package. = lowers the save percentage = higher shooting percentage.
One interesting thing with Royal Road passes is still screening, if the screener can screen the goalie from that pass. Not the screen for the shot, but the pass before a shot. Then the goalie is totally late, when one-timer happens from different side. It just takes some timing from all the 5-man unit to make every detail happen at right time, and then it will be lethal.
Good to hear that Naurato is on the right page of this thing, and Red Wings "old" power-play is coming back from this stone age of power-plays. Our superstar guys did these same things when we were at our best, and when we last time had Elite right-handed shooter (Shanahan). What a heck... 14 years ago...