look at the system put into place. Please tell me what they are trying to do?Why are you refusing to answer the question? And no, they are not part of any PP system run by any coach, anywhere, especially the part where we easily allow the man with the puck to get out numbered on a 5 on 3! All power plays at all levels of hockey require movement off of the puck. The best players in the world know this and yet they never change. The PP will only start to improve when the players decide to work harder on the PP than they do 5 on 5. No amount of dick holding from Blashill and Torchetti is going to make this happen.
Woah, Blashill amazes me each and every time he makes a decision with exactly how dumb it is. That second power play unit is hilarious. We're about to have the most exciting power play in the league because the other team is going to score a shortie on half of them.
If Blashill is the coach more than thirty games into next season and the team is still playing this way I would consider that proof of a purposeful tank.I dont know what you all are complaining about:
1) Nyquist and Mantha slacked off... lets assume that is true. There should be reprocussions, pull them off the PP, and put on worse players, who cares that is how u teach lessons!
2) We want to lose right? This is great news, we are more likely to lose with them off the PP.
P.S. if our GM gave instructions to the coach to Tank. Would anyone here actually be able to prove it?
Uh move your feet, that might help out the pp.
As for those lines, nothing surprises me anymore... But that's some uninspiring **** right there. Whatever, bring on the lottery pick.
We have had two different assistants run our PP over the last two years with the exact same results. If we underperform next year under a third coach are we allowed to starts questioning the players or do we need to try a fourth coach first?
So I ask you again, how many good power plays have you played on that consisted of four guys standing statue still waiting for the guy with the puck to do something with it? Have you ever played on a 5-on-3s that allowed the defending team to get numbers on a weak-side wing on the half wall? ON THE ****ING HALF WALL! That level of dysfunction is well beyond simple coaching.
I understand why you don't want to blame the players. I think it is somewhat natural to be honest. You shouldn't, however, be afraid to question something simply because you are afraid of the answer you might find. This organization, at this point, demands brutal, brutal honesty.
Either the tank is real or Blashill is brain-dead. There needs to be equal accountability on this team.
This is hilarious.
On the goal, Vanek throws an errant pass back to Kronwall, who has already dropped back. Kronwall has Palmieri, who seemingly has run out of real estate, but then he cuts back on a weak, flopping Kronwall and Coreau lets in the softie.
Mantha and Nyquist didn't help, but the embarrassments on that goal were Kronwall and Coreau. Good to see we made the right adjustments.
Which question? Thought I answered, our PP was above average last season, league best the year before. We've seen 90% of these players look significantly better on the powerplay in the past.Why are you refusing to answer the question? And no, they are not part of any PP system run by any coach, anywhere, especially the part where we easily allow the man with the puck to get out numbered on a 5 on 3! All power plays at all levels of hockey require movement off of the puck. The best players in the world know this and yet they never change. The PP will only start to improve when the players decide to work harder on the PP than they do 5 on 5. No amount of dick holding from Blashill and Torchetti is going to make this happen.
I love when people say "move your feet" as if just moving around the ice is going to make things happen.
Special teams systems are basically a system of preferences. You want X guy here when X guy is there and you want to make that happen as often as possible. That system - whatever Blash and co. are directing - isn't going to be fixed fundamentally by moving your feet if it's a **** system to begin with and your teammates aren't in sync.
Also, I love that through 50 games of ****** PP play, the solution is to "move your feet." YES. That's it! I'm sure Tatar and Vanek and Mantha and Larkin and AA are happy to reduce their earning capacity by hundreds of thousands of dollars by nature of missing out on all kinds of PP points because, gosh darnit, moving your feet is hard.
I love when people say "move your feet" as if just moving around the ice is going to make things happen.
Special teams systems are basically a system of preferences. You want X guy here when X guy is there and you want to make that happen as often as possible. That system - whatever Blash and co. are directing - isn't going to be fixed fundamentally by moving your feet if it's a **** system to begin with and your teammates aren't in sync.
Also, I love that through 50 games of ****** PP play, the solution is to "move your feet." YES. That's it! I'm sure Tatar and Vanek and Mantha and Larkin and AA are happy to reduce their earning capacity by hundreds of thousands of dollars by nature of missing out on all kinds of PP points because, gosh darnit, moving your feet is hard.
Idk man, I watch plenty of other hockey games and I don't see other teams carry the puck back and forth along the boards while his buddies stand around until the puck is wrapped around the boards near them. I see other teams skating around and rotating with each other trying to cause confusion.I love when people say "move your feet" as if just moving around the ice is going to make things happen.
Special teams systems are basically a system of preferences. You want X guy here when X guy is there and you want to make that happen as often as possible. That system - whatever Blash and co. are directing - isn't going to be fixed fundamentally by moving your feet if it's a **** system to begin with and your teammates aren't in sync.
Also, I love that through 50 games of ****** PP play, the solution is to "move your feet." YES. That's it! I'm sure Tatar and Vanek and Mantha and Larkin and AA are happy to reduce their earning capacity by hundreds of thousands of dollars by nature of missing out on all kinds of PP points because, gosh darnit, moving your feet is hard.
look at the system put into place. Please tell me what they are trying to do?
Movement helps a lot but is not entirely it. Quick passing is another part of a successful power play. The Wings just stand in the umbrella position and do virtually nothing to create the PK box to make them move around. Everyone in the arena knows who is going to get the puck before the player gets it. They are too predictable.
In Grand Rapids, we have 5 forwards as our #1 PP unit. We rarely dump and chase it in. We carry it in, and quickly set up inside the blueline. Our pointmen are either moving from side to side and when they do, the one forward on the wing goes behind the net and if he gets the pass, the near point man goes either in front of the net, or between the circles while the far point moves to the near point position. The far forward moves over between the circles thus creating two options for the forward behind the net to pass over, or go back to the point and if he is open, he takes the shot and the 2 forward screen the goalie and any rebound they can bang it home or push it to the boards to where the point man can get it and reset. Movement and quick passing collapses the PK box and we get several scoring chances just about every PP. Pretty gutsy set up that Nelson and the gang come up with for this season. Our power play last season was similar to what the Wings are doing now and it was not very effective at all. We scored 49 PP goals last season in 76 games and 15.8%. This season, we have already scored 51 PP in only 43 games and 27.3%. We have had 2 streaks of scoring a PP goal in 10+ straight games this season.