Leafs powerplay simply unacceptable given the amount of money on it

[LeafsNet]

It’s the entry that gets me….those back passes absolutely infuriate me. Dump it in a chase or smash through.

This pack pass nonsense almost never works and always wastes time.

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

If you play them together for longer than a minute than you can maximize their combined ice time. If they are separated the max is two minutes.

I think the answer is a new blueprint but still having Matty and Willy on the sidewalls. Maybe go:

Knies
Willy-X-Matty
OEL

JT or Marner take the X and they max out minutes, or JT and Marner take the sidewalls on PP2 and PP1 has to earn the extra minutes.

How would you set em up and split time?

PP1

Knies
Marner-Domi-Matthews
OEL

PP2

McMann
Nylander-Pacioretty-Tavares
Rielly

Marner on the flank for a one timer isn't optimal.

But him and Nylander are the only two right shot forwards on the team and the objective was to split Nylander away from Matthews. Marner's got a credible enough shot that I think it would work better than what they have been doing with him out in no man's land along the half wall lobbing wristers from up near the blue line hoping for a tip. Marner is a better puck distributor than Nylander so I think he would be better flanking Matthews.

Time can be split more or less evenly with adjustments made depending on which unit is producing better.

 

[Mulletman]

Targeting Laine next year would be the answer to all powerplay problems. Plus it would piss off Montreal too. Laine could break the single season record for most powerplay goals by a Canadiens player this year if he scores another 11 goals on the powerplay. And Canadiens doesn't have anybody as good as Marner passing the puck...