I love that this is getting pointed out. Having a bad breakout system is a huge component of defensive zone turnovers. If the only options for a defenseman are to chip a 50/50 puck off the glass or make a high risk play, you're going to end up with the other team gaining possession far more often than you should. You can't leave your defensemen on an island. People often lob huge amounts of blame on the defenseman tasked with leading the breakout for turnovers, when in many cases their team is just as much at fault for not providing them support/outlets.
What is easier to fix.
3 pizza deliverymen struggling as they learn the game, who all agree won't be polished defensively and at their peak until they are close to 30 years old, or implement a PMD supportive modern era breakout system? Option one can take upwards of a decade.
It's not complicated stuff. Anyone that has played knows someone between you and your D pal means you are likely not getting the puck. And also know, if you are flat footed, by the time the puck gets to you, you will likely get clobbered if the puck even gets there. You need to get into a passing lane, and be moving to catch the defense flat footed.
I have seen a better breakout. The problem is that no 2 breakouts are exactly alike so its hard to know for sure, but what I think I have been seeing is...
The first pass is often up the boards (it is Trotz) to a guy largely stationary, and then second is a quick short slightly diagonal up ice pass to a forward with speed. From there, I haven't seen a pattern. Very basic stuff, if everyone does their job.
I would love to see a site that charts the path of the puck on breakouts. I would be very interested to see Pitts early 2016 chart.
Maybe Eazy can recall the breakouts he saw practiced and keyboardily diagram it out for us.