Blackhawks Special Teams

[Taze em]

Hawks have now killed off 31 consecutive Power Plays and sits 3rd in the NHL in PK%.

Vlasic, Murphy, Dickinson, Foligno, Teravainen, Mikheyev have been absolutely stellar this year.

This is big news to me, especially with Murphy. I think we might even get some great value on him if they do move on from him. A big right shot PK specialist is an incredible playoff asset.\

For Vlasic, I mean he's eaten those Jones minutes no problem. He has to be considered a 2D at this point with some offense flashing

And in case you're wondering:
The NHL record is 53 consecutive PKs by the 99/00 Capitals.

Does anyone know who handles the PK? Dean or King?

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[Mrfenn92]

Dean

 

[CallMeShaft]

Yeah, Dean handles the PK and the defense. King handles the PP and powerplay, or at least he did before the coaching change.

What's really impressive with the PK is the goalies we've had. Mrazek is solid when healthy, but he isn't a top 10 guy in the league. Soderblom has been great this season, surprisingly, but he isn't either. LB hasn't even dressed for a game yet, and Commesso got his first NHL start during that long streak.

So it's not like we got Hellebuyck or Vasilevsky back there to bail out the PK. The PK's success is full team effort.

And yes, the regulars on the PK certainly are likely improving their value by being on it. Murphy, Mikheyev, and Dickinson are probably moved at one of the next two deadlines, and them continuing to excel on the PK would help us get more back for them.

 

[Muffinalt]

Hawks have now killed off 31 consecutive Power Plays and sits 3rd in the NHL in PK%.

Vlasic, Murphy, Dickinson, Foligno, Teravainen, Mikheyev have been absolutely stellar this year.

This is big news to me, especially with Murphy. I think we might even get some great value on him if they do move on from him. A big right shot PK specialist is an incredible playoff asset.\

For Vlasic, I mean he's eaten those Jones minutes no problem. He has to be considered a 2D at this point with some offense flashing

And in case you're wondering:
The NHL record is 53 consecutive PKs by the 99/00 Capitals.

Does anyone know who handles the PK? Dean or King?

Great effort by the guys and the staff.

Seth Jones is coming back though, so we shouldn't worry about that record. His random low effort moments will make sure of that.

I think like you said, Vlasic showed he can be a legit top pair D to rely on heavily. That was the argument for Seth, but he's not a necessity anymore in any sense imo.