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Some interesting hot takes, drop Rielly and use Lilly , drop Rielly and use Sandin.

Poor puck management in the attacking zone is not going to be fixed by taking Morgan off the PP

Static player movement is not going to be fixed by taking Morgan off the PP.

Predictable drop passes that kill 5 to 10 seconds of the PP is not going to be fixed by taking Morgan off the PP.

Passing the puck into the feet of the receiver is not going to be fixed by taking Morgan off the PP.
 
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Rielly is just a problem when we’re actually in the offensive zone and set up. He allows the defenders to collapse in the middle cause he’s no threat from the point. He has no shot and he allows the puck to sit on his stick for way too long before making up his decision to pass allowing the opposing team to get back into position.
 
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Just get Reilly off the power play. I’m tired of seeing this double chin Schlub fail so miserably. While we’re at how about no more Jumbo turd Thornton as well.
 
TMLAM34 said:
Rielly is just a problem when we’re actually in the offensive zone and set up. He allows the defenders to collapse in the middle cause he’s no threat from the point. He has no shot and he allows the puck to sit on his stick for way too long before making up his decision to pass allowing the opposing team to get back into position.
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For the amount of time Rielly handles the puck, he would be so far down the list of things you need to fix. In the attacking zone the forwards are what 80% of the time the puck handlers? The puck usually only goes to the point when the forward runs out of options.
 
Simple start to fix. Start passing with some zip. These are like peewee passes and are so slow defenders are covering players or in the shooting lane by the time the puck gets there.
 
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Simple start to fix. Start passing with some zip. These are like peewee passes and are so slow defenders are covering players or in the shooting lane by the time the puck gets there.
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Completely agree, every pass has to be this little unnecessary saucer pass. By the time it gets to the receiver the defender is on top of them.

Marner and Matthews get incredibly bad for it sometimes, 10ft back handed-no look-saucer pass for no reason (showing off I guess?) Half the time the pass hops or is off target (in the feet or behind the receiver) and the defender immediately takes it away, and even if it does work it's so slow the defender is on top of the receiver and they are forced into making a difficult play under pressure.

Skate hard on the entry, pass the puck with authority, that's really all there is to fixing it.
 
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At this point, just throw Brooks, Robby, Engvall, Kerfoot and Bogosian out there and see what happens. At the very least they'll probably try hard and maybe bang something gross in.

It's the apparent lack of effort and care that is worse than the results, they're not moving or competing anymore and it's sad to watch. If we're going to go 0-for-1 million, sit the big guys for a full 2 min PP and send a message.
 
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It’s pretty clear Malhotra has to be removed from his position. You don’t have to fire him, just reassign him to face off coach or something.

He’s over coached our extremely talented forwards to the point where the PP is the same dull predictable garbage every game. If we all can see what they’re going to do, you can be damn sure the teams that are scouting them know as well.
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If they were winning face offs on PP regularly, the results wouldn't be this bad.
 
Give this a try. Put Spezza at the point. Have Marner run PP2. I wouldn't take Rielly off of PP1. He's the best we have at holding the puck in the zone when the other team tries to clear because of his elite skating.

Galchenyuk Tavares Matthews
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It's simple. Load it up with your top players, play them as much as possible. It will go in eventually and they will go in plenty.

Trying to galaxy brain guys like Thornton or Boyd (at the time) and all that stuff... no.
 
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socko said:
Give this a try. Put Spezza at the point. Have Marner run PP2. I wouldn't take Rielly off of PP1. He's the best we have at holding the puck in the zone when the other team tries to clear because of his elite skating.

Galchenyuk Tavares Matthews
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It's less about personnel and more about plan.

We need to work different plays than weak wristers through traffic or a covered Matthews on his strong side
 
Obviously this drop pass in the neutral zone ain't working, it drives me crazy its so predictable.
The opposition are setup for that at the blue line, and the wingers have to wait for the puck carrier to catch up to them, so now the blue line is crowded to make a clear quick pass.
The puck carrier should be skating at full speed as well as his linemates and dump the puck in the corner, at that point the other teams defense will be under pressure knowing their being chased down and the possibility of a body check. Old time hockey. Which unfortunately that won't happen because are skill players are too soft, like my toilet paper, to play that style.
 
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Get rid of the bumper position, and have someone planted below the goal line to get the cycle going.
 
Don’t think it’s fair to focus in on one player.

The whole PP is a mess. It goes back to coaching when it’s this bad. We do the same exact thing every single time.

It’s so easy to gameplan around for the other team because we literally don’t do anything else.

Just remove the PP coach, put your best players on the ice and let them do their thing. These players don’t need to be coached on how to score. It’s stupidly over coached for no reason.
 
I still say, most of the time, when you have Matthews Marner and Hyman together, they dominate 5 on 5. Treat it like it's not a power play, just have a dominant shift. Forget the pretty drop pass crap to gain the zone. Treat it like a regular shift and storm the blueline and go to the net hungry. Regular shift w/2 d. And definitely need a blueline slapshot threat. Remember back in the day when it went back to chara or mcinnis everyone held their breathe when they wound up? Yeah we need that. Looks like Hutton has a decent shot?
 
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I still say, most of the time, when you have Matthews Marner and Hyman together, they dominate 5 on 5. Treat it like it's not a power play, just have a dominant shift. Forget the pretty drop pass crap to gain the zone. Treat it like a regular shift and storm the blueline and go to the net hungry. Regular shift w/2 d. And definitely need a blueline slapshot threat. Remember back in the day when it went back to chara or mcinnis everyone held their breathe when they wound up? Yeah we need that. Looks like Hutton has a decent shot?
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Seriously, Keefe should ban them from doing that drop pass garbage. All they do is literally kill time off their own power play. It's a stupid habit they've had since the Babcock days and it's dumb af. No other team does it as much as we do.
 
Sheldon's comments that the poor performance of the PP is due to mental blocks and that success is "100% confidence". This is cringe-worthy nonsense. None of these players have a confidence problem and if he's trying to get into their heads with "you can do it" crap it's only hurting.

To put it one way: On the faceoff starting a Leafs' PP, do you want Morgan Reilly thinking "I know I can do this" or focusing solely on what he has to do? It is 100% execution. Players focus on their task and nothing else. They are pros, they know how to handle a puck, when to pass and when to shoot.

And what grates me more is if Sheldon is so concerned with confidence then how confident do you think players (forwards specifically) are when they are being shuffled up and down the lineup on a nightly basis, and often several times per game?

At this point in the season, barring injuries which obviously necessitate changing some things up, the lines for a first-place team should pretty much be set in stone. The fact that he's moving guys endlessly only sends one message to the team: He's not confident in them. The weak link in this team is not Freddie, or the 3rd line, it's a coach that unfortunately is not experienced (or just good) enough at this level to take a team to a championship.

Oh, for what it's worth I absolutely hope I'm 100% wrong about Keefe as a coach, that all of this tinkering is a genius level understanding of the game that I'm just not seeing, and this team goes on to win the Cup.
 
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