The Special Teams are bad again

[BlackAdam]

Say what you want about the Power Play, but you can't be giving up a goal on the Penalty Kill every game.
You can get by with a bad Power Play but a worse Penalty Kill will sink you. It's just that much more goals you need to score to win a game.

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[BlackAdam]

To further elaborate, Leafs were 23rd last year shorthanded with a rate of 76.89. Definitely a lot of team points they lost out on cause they couldn't keep puck out.
The same pk was awful against the Bruins in the playoffs.

 

[Incognito]

We're also getting f***ed by the refs on a regular basis, which doesn't help. So far this season, we've been shorthanded 41 times while only getting 32 powerplays. Those numbers don't pass the eye test.

 

[BlackAdam]

Bad calls are gonna be called but you still need to kill them. Leafs are not gonna go far in the playoffs with a 64.7PK% they had against boston

 

[wingman75]

Jets were ripping seam passes like it was practice. PRACTICE!

 

[Gabriel426]

This is the thing, since our PP sucks, our PK will sucks. As during practices, the PK unit will think they are amazing as they are stopping AM, MM, Willie, JT and Reilly, lol.

 

[tmlms13]

We're also getting f***ed by the refs on a regular basis, which doesn't help. So far this season, we've been shorthanded 41 times while only getting 32 powerplays. Those numbers don't pass the eye test.

That's nothing new. Leafs are bottom 5 in PP opportunities for like 7 years straight.

 

[Craig Button]

This is the thing, since our PP sucks, our PK will sucks. As during practices, the PK unit will think they are amazing as they are stopping AM, MM, Willie, JT and Reilly, lol.

Mitch Marner is our main Penalty Killer

Auston Mattews tags along on the PK with Marner

 

[sxvnert]

Re: PK
Leafs need to create a proper third line which would contain higher end two way PK players.

 

[arso40]

Re: PK
Leafs need to create a proper third line which would contain higher end two way PK players.

hard to do that with domi on it

 

[Gabriel426]

Mitch Marner is our main Penalty Killer

Auston Mattews tags along on the PK with Marner

And who would they practice PK against?
Lol

 

[Cap'n Flavour]

Jets were ripping seam passes like it was practice. PRACTICE!

This is a team-wide problem but I've noticed that Tanev in particular, while good at a lot of things, has struggled with anticipating and stopping passes going near him.

 

[Maple Leaf]

need to pp specialist and some penaloty killers not david kampf

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

You know they're getting desperate when they have Marner QB'ing the power play.

It's been a combination of system, execution, and deployment. As in the system is broken, the execution horrendous, and the player deployment questionable. One alone is enough to derail not only the special teams but the entire season.

All three happening at the same time should be enough to get Savard fired.

 

[darrylsittler27]

I don't know how the Leafs do it. They are like the Keystone cops. Every year their special teams suck so they hire another guy whose history shows he sucks. I wonder what historically garbage special teams coach they will hire next. Are they blind or just stupid? Wait..don't answer that. Another first round exit coming up. Leafs powerplay 1 for 36 attempts. Pk at 63 per cent. I don't know why we lost! I'm sorry but why do they hire management that are stupider than fans?

 

[Maple Leaf]

I don't know how the Leafs do it. They are like the Keystone cops. Every year their special teams suck so they hire another guy whose history shows he sucks. I wonder what historically garbage special teams coach they will hire next. Are they blind or just stupid? Wait..don't answer that. Another first round exit coming up. Leafs powerplay 1 for 36 attempts. Pk at 63 per cent. I don't know why we lost! I'm sorry but why do they hire management that are stupider than fans?

they just hire their buddies
who da hell is treliving

 

[notDatsyuk]

That's nothing new. Leafs are bottom 5 in PP opportunities for like 7 years straight.

That might be more perception than reality.

Over the last 7 seasons they finished: 29th, 31st, 23rd, 21st, 21st, 18th, and 25th, and are actually 8th at the moment (small sample size).

So they have actually been "bottom 5" twice in the last 7 seasons, that being the 17-18 and 18-19 seasons. Over the last 5 seasons their worst finish has been 8th worst.

Yes, bottom half, but not "bottom 5".

The corollary is that we take fewer penalties. Over the same 7 seasons we have had the 7th, 2nd, 8th, 4th, 18th, 16th, and 11th fewest penalties called against us. Currently only two teams have had more penalties this year.

The interesting part is that, over the last 7+ seasons, we have had 1532 PP opportunities and 1533 PK opportunities.

 

[Stephen]

The PP1 unit plays like the players haven't agreed on when to meet in the opposition zone, and once they get there they just keep it on the perimeter like timid guests not sure if they need to take their shoes off before going into the slot area. And there's no real agenda as to who should have to puck when or where and order of preference as to who should take the shot. And oops where does the time go.