Zorak
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42G + 35A = 77PTS +9
Team makes playoffs, exits round 1.
I would expect more assists - like 40g+45a. Last season was an obvious aberration.
42G + 35A = 77PTS +9
Team makes playoffs, exits round 1.
I would expect more assists - like 40g+45a. Last season was an obvious aberration.
He can't even pass, remember
#8 3G (all shorthanded) + 213A = 216 PTS, +58 +/-, 507 blocked shots, 0 turnovers
#19 103G + 1A (secondary assist on Troy Brouwer empty net goal) = 104 PTS
#70 SV% 99,3 GAA 0,15
OV takes Hart, Selke, Conn Smyth
Nicky takes "Rocket" trophy
Holts takes Vezina
Stanley Cup final
Caps beat Pens 1-0 in Game 7 after 17 OT. Beagle scored the only goal
Then why did we finish in the bottom half of the league in 2010-11 and 2011-2012?
44G, 47A, 91P ....in the playoffs.
Trotz coaches the team he is given, a team led by weber, suter, and rinne while having very little offense was going to have to be a defensive team. trotz said he will coach the team according to its strengths, which is offensively. i find it hard to believe he'll do much tinkering to the PP and give the best PP player in the world less ice time on the PP and move him to the front of the net (lol). and your right he should be moved back to LW, that was a terrible decision by oates to put him at RW and play him with players that can't hit empty nets. and i believe a big part of his defensive problems came from playing with 2 other poor defensive players while playing on the wrong side of the ice, i doubt trotz will make that same mistake.
Because in addition to being incredibly static it was all about perimeter passing and shooting with no real threat near the net. In one of those years the PP had a hot streak early on (November?) and then went cold again. I analyzed video of PP goals from that streak and found that for almost every PP goal there were at least 2 players near the net, preferably one low and one high in the slot.
This was not so much by design but by accident, I believe, but I advocated this approach in various forums since it created massive problems for the goalie and the PKers. It was not adopted because I'm not in the game and the rest, including BB's tenure as a Caps coach, was history.
Oates or his assistant eventually adopted a similar strategy and surprise surprise, it worked.
Poor D and G played a part, too.
I doubt that any primary changes are coming to the power play. certainly not moving Ovechkin to the front of the net. Ovechkin is a shooter. Off the pass maybe the best shooter of his generation. Trotz is not going to turn him into Tim Kerr.
Once you put 8 on the left point, the rest is pretty easy. Backstrom as the primary passer with the puck has to be on the other side of the ice. You agree Backstrom will be on the first pp unit. yes? Trotz has already said Backstrom is the best all around player on the team.
He might stay Carlson and trade Green or go Green, but that doesn't change anything. He might go Brouwer or trade Brouwer but has Ward who he already likes for the slot spot. The 5th player can be Laich or Kuz or Grabs or Johansson or Wilson even.
All that is pretty easy to read and still you could have Green traded for futures and Brouwer traded for a top 4 stay at home.
#8 3G (all shorthanded) + 213A = 216 PTS, +58 +/-, 507 blocked shots, 0 turnovers
#19 103G + 1A (secondary assist on Troy Brouwer empty net goal) = 104 PTS
#70 SV% 99,3 GAA 0,15
OV takes Hart, Selke, Conn Smyth
Nicky takes "Rocket" trophy
Holts takes Vezina
Stanley Cup final
Caps beat Pens 1-0 in Game 7 after 17 OT. Beagle scored the only goal