I agree but they could've given the Kings a 4 minute power play including the goal. Makes no sense to me that he can something so blatant like that and not get penalized at all. There's your 2 + 10 minute penalty right there.
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At this point, I'm fairly convinced the lack of success on the PP is not due to coaching...it's due to execution.
Do you think JQ a lock for the HOF? I believe he should be.. but of course im biased.Yep! All time playoff shutout leader among US-born goalies. 11th all time among all nationalities, tied with Lundqvist and Dryden now.
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Richters in the hof. Quick has better stats and slightly better hardware. He should be in.
Richter is in the US Hall of Fame. Not the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Late in the season he made some mistakes on the PP that led to SH scoring chances for the opposition. He's been much more risk adverse since then. Not sure if it was by choice, or coaching.
If i were to guess, its the Kopitar effect. Almost every revolving door in the few years on the powerplay with Kopitar has played the same. Slow, predictable, and telegraphed. The Half-Wall joke has its origin story for a reason. While Kopitar is a good player, he is very inefficient on the powerplay. He slows the game down too much. The point of the powerplay is to be quick and decisive in order to expose the lack of coverage the opposing team has down a man. Being slow and indecisive never opens lanes or exploits the man advantage you have.
Two more 20 win seasons is iffy. He only has 1 more year on his deal. Not a lock he sticks around past it.
Oh wait, are you now questioning Kaliyev on the PP? You do know the coaching staff put him there right? Are you saying you know more than NHL coaches? I hope to see you apply to be the next coach of the Kings with such audacity
When a player shoots wide, is that part of the 'system'?
I'm not questioning it, but I also don't believe that if he had more PP time that it would fix the issues.
Good summary.. He rarely puts him self in a position to shoot - which helps the defender to decide whether to cover him closely.. he has almost zero deception to his style on the PP.. yet in 5x5 he is really good at avoiding poke checks entering the zone and does lots of smart quick-thinking deceptive things in the defensive zone to get out of trouble. He is in a gigantic rut on the PP that developed over the years. Its so palpable to be an emperor has no clothes even to the most casual observer.
There were times throughout the season when guys were moving or at least tried to move the puck quicker but it would stop on Kopitar's stick. Receive, stick handle a few times and then pass back to the point.
Read above, I already answered that...it's execution which equates to the skillset of the personnel. Did you notice during the regular season that the Kings weren't a very good GF team overall? Did you notice that we aren't necessarily made up of elite goal scorers...or even ONE for that matter? Did you notice our highest scoring player only had 67 points?
If you have a PP that hasn't executed for the entire season, and you have coaches putting out those same guys every game, is that not a coaching problem?
The PP usually consists of your highest scoring forwards and D-men...I would bet that lines up with your 'same guys' you are referring to. Prove me wrong.
From 06-07 to 17-18, the Kings Power Play averaged being in the top half of the league (13th), and overall was only 3.2% away from matching best in the league.
