Speculation: 2024-2025 General Lightning Discussion: Preseason Edition

[DFC]

I think we're underestimating how much pre-shot puck movement matters (and overestimating how important our particular PP set up was).

TB had the top regular season PP at 28.6%
Edmonton was fourth at 26.3%

There flat out aren't many guys who fit the Stammer mold. Heavy, right-handed shot.

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Look at the right-handed shots. Hyman was netfront. Point was bumper. Jarvis was netfront. Boeser was bumper.

Teams can succeed without a right handed turret in the left circle, but also look at how the goals are scored, and there tends to be a lot of cross-crease passes.

We've done it before. I'm not overly worried about the PP.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Do the Lightning have a guy with a heavy shot, left or right?

Look at the Edmonton PP. McDavid, a lefty, is on the left, and Draisaitl, a lefty, is on the right. Draisaitl doesn't have a scorcher, and generally scores closer to the net.

Drai is also one of the best at scoring from a bad angle.

Hedman probably has the hardest shot on the team now.

 

[Rschmitz]

Drai is also one of the best at scoring from a bad angle.

Hedman probably has the hardest shot on the team now.

Hasn’t he always done better than Stammer on the hardest shot competition? Stamkos snipes, Hedman blasts