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

 

[Felonious Python]

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

Both can shoot it over 100 mph in a skills competition setting.

Hedman shoots from the blueline, or top the circles at most, so it's hard to compare accuracy.

We're used to Bagel being more of a rush scorer, and empty net specialist. Being on the power play, with a lot of settled offense, is something we just haven't seen much.

Not a lot of tic-tac-toe. The goal against Carolina just after the 2-minute mark is maybe the closest to the type of PP role we're looking for.

 

[Felonious Python]

Hagel quote


I think the quote has copypasta qualities.

“And we’re here trying to replace one of the best power-play guys in the entire world. So that’s impossible. We’re not going to be able to do that. I’m definitely not going to be the guy to do that.

“But listen, I think it’s just repetition. Figure out what works. It’s not going to be pretty at times.”