Torchetti not being brought back

[lhsgolf19]

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[Hammettf2b]

This effects our Power Play right?

 

[Winger98]

This effects our Power Play right?

the lack-there-of, yes.

 

[Hammettf2b]

the lack-there-of, yes.

Niiiice.

 

[jkutswings]

Sad to see this brilliant strategist go. I mean, let's bathe in that outstanding intellectualism one more time. Here's just a snippet of that cerebral giant's work:

 

[njx9]

I was going to say I didn't think it was that much worse with him, but then I looked at the numbers... 15% and 17.5%, vs. 18.8% and 24% the two years before?

Blech. How did he keep his job after last season?

 

[Redder Winger]

I was going to say I didn't think it was that much worse with him, but then I looked at the numbers... 15% and 17.5%, vs. 18.8% and 24% the two years before?

Blech. How did he keep his job after last season?

Some of that was the loss of Datsyuk and decline of Kronwall.
But yeah.
Let's also remember Babcock's powerplay was starting to fizzle too, before he brought in the coach who left with him to Toronto.

 

[Henkka]

This effects our Power Play right?

Would be nice to have also better power-play players.

Skill.

 

[lidstromiscool]

Lack of skill has a little to do with it, but also misusing a ton of players. Kronwall was ineffective to say the least, should have played Green the full 2 minutes. Frk has a nice shot but hardly ever lead to production. Mantha in the net front roll has been beaten to death. Hope the new PP coach brings in some fresh ideas

 

[Pavels Dog]

Lack of skill has a little to do with it, but also misusing a ton of players. Kronwall was ineffective to say the least, should have played Green the full 2 minutes. Frk has a nice shot but hardly ever lead to production. Mantha in the net front roll has been beaten to death. Hope the new PP coach brings in some fresh ideas

Yep really feel Mantha should be a much more effective PP producer in a different role.

 

[Hatter of the Beach]

Keep in mind this season we actually started out with a very hot powerplay. I distinctly remember someone candidly telling me off for critizizing Mantha’s usage because we were 6th or something similar in the league.

After November, our PP really was putrid. The total percentage is generous

Lack of skill has a little to do with it, but also misusing a ton of players. Kronwall was ineffective to say the least, should have played Green the full 2 minutes. Frk has a nice shot but hardly ever lead to production. Mantha in the net front roll has been beaten to death. Hope the new PP coach brings in some fresh ideas

I personally think our reliance on Frk’s shot was a big part of the reason why our PP sucked so bad. We had 0 creativity. Frk has a good shot, but the amount of intercepted passes because other teams PKers knew where the pass was going was unreal, and despite it being a bullet, his shot accuracy wasnt anything special. We kept relying on Frk as if he was 08-09 Ovechkin when in reality he had a dozen goals

 

[Frk It]

Zetterberg and Nyquist were top 2 in PP TOI... and combined for 4 PP goals... that certainly doesn't bode well for whatever system we were running.

 

[Winger98]

Zetterberg and Nyquist were top 2 in PP TOI... and combined for 4 PP goals... that certainly doesn't bode well for whatever system we were running.

Z at least racked up the assists and led the forwards in PP points. Nyquist only put up 8 pp points on the year. On the other end is Nielsen, averaging less than a minute a night on the power play, but still putting up 7 points.