Anderson not good enough for either PP. Newhook goes down, Anderson back on PP1.
Slaf-Dvorak-Cole our best line. Newhook goes down, let’s break them up.
Fantastic coaching.
I mean we just don't have PP forwards.
Gally has ten years of failures to prove he isn't useful there. Since he entered the league he is the only forward who has played here more than six seasons. And yet with those substantial number of extra games played Markov, Subban, Patches and Chucky are still ahead of him in the past decade for PP points. Nick is four points back with 400 less games. He is less than double ahead of Desharnais, also in 400 less games.
Now this is just in cumulative pp points which makes Gally look a lot better. For individual seasons 25% of gallys pp points came in 2017-18 which was a very high scoring PP year for us. After that his next highest PP year was 10 points. This is with first wave PP time his entire career until recently. He's also fallen off a cliff and any goal scored with him in front of the net gets waived for interference. What's the point of putting him on the PP then if he's literally going to prevent goals?
After that you have Armia, Evans, Ylonen, Pearson, Newhook and Dvo. Which one of those do you think is a net front presence or is a guy you want facing point shots from our PP? Do you want Slaf getting shot at and going for garbage goals instead of developing his cycling game or learning how to run a PP? The guy in front of the net is there to screen and clean up garbage. Gallys the only other option and like I said, he sucks at it and he literally negates goals all the time with interference. Do you think a skilled player like Newhook should be screening the goalie? Or maybe Armia going from AHL to first wave PP would make sense. RHP could be a new Gallagher there but he's also injured.
