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As Ebner writes last night's Keystone Cops featurette PP starring Dan Hamhuis was mind-boggling. Canucks continue to struggle on power play in loss to Predators
However it should come as no surprise because none of the Canucks coaches have a history of being able to design and implement a power play.
Ebner then goes through the historical numbers:
And while there was some success in Tampa:
And the assistant coaches? Remember Gulutzan runs the PP for the Canucks:
That noted hockey pundit Albert Einstein once remarked... "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Alex Burrows, also down low on the other side of the net, got it going fast, flinging a puck across the crease to Hamhuis, but it came in hot and Hamhuis couldn't handle it. Twenty second later, same situation, and Burrows got it to Hamhuis, right on the stick, and Hamhuis was wide open but only put a soft shot on net. The third time, again the same but Hamhuis had a better shot, though in this episode the Nashville goalie made a solid save. The fourth time Burrows flung it across and Hamhuis couldn't reach the pass. The fifth pass came from Daniel Sedin and Hamhuis had to reach for it and shot wide. The sixth try, Sedin put it on Hamhuis's stick and Hamhuis flubbed the shot.
However it should come as no surprise because none of the Canucks coaches have a history of being able to design and implement a power play.
One reason for the problems, it can be cited, is the lack of previous success of any of the Canucks coaches when it comes to the power play.
This year’s Canucks, led by the suspended John Tortorella, has assistants Mike Sullivan and Glen Gulutzan behind the behind. Gulutzan runs the power play. The Canucks are ranked 25th in the NHL, converting 14.7 per cent of the time, while generating the third-most shots at five-on-four.
This year’s Canucks, led by the suspended John Tortorella, has assistants Mike Sullivan and Glen Gulutzan behind the behind. Gulutzan runs the power play. The Canucks are ranked 25th in the NHL, converting 14.7 per cent of the time, while generating the third-most shots at five-on-four.
Ebner then goes through the historical numbers:
In Tortorella and Sullivan’s four full seasons in New York, the power play, counting backwards from 2013, was ranked 23rd, 23rd, 18th, and 13th. The past two seasons New York was ranked 27th in shot generation. The best year, 2009-10, they were 19th in shots and converted 18.3 per cent of time.
And while there was some success in Tampa:
But of six full seasons, three were in the bottom half of the league (twice in the bottom third). The year Tampa won the Stanley Cup, 2003-04, when the team was the third-highest goal scoring team in the league, the power play was 16th ranked converting 16.2 per cent of the time.
And the assistant coaches? Remember Gulutzan runs the PP for the Canucks:
In Boston, where Sullivan was head coach two seasons, the power play in 2003-04 was 17th ranked converting 16 per cent, and 25th in 2005-06 converting 14.8 per cent.
In Dallas, where Gulutzan was head coach the past two seasons, the power play was 18th with 17 per cent conversion in 2013, and dead last in 2011-12, converting 13.5 per cent of the time, and dead last in shots on goal.
In Dallas, where Gulutzan was head coach the past two seasons, the power play was 18th with 17 per cent conversion in 2013, and dead last in 2011-12, converting 13.5 per cent of the time, and dead last in shots on goal.
That noted hockey pundit Albert Einstein once remarked... "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
