On the PP their zone entry plan is an utter joke. They drop pass, drop pass, drop pass, and then when the final guy gets it he builds up a bit of speed to beat the lone forechecker and then passes it to a standing still Tavares at the LW blue line and tries to skate past the defenseman on that side for a chip pass from JT. Unfortunately, JT has zero speed or acceleration in this position and NHL defenders are quite good at stopping chip passes.
Then, on the odd time when this zone entry scheme works, they just don't have a plan. They have the most success when they force it down low and pass out front where JT/Nylander/Matthews can pounce on it, but for the most part they just pass it around the perimeter until Matthews or Nylander take a shot from the faceoff dot. When we spend 30 seconds per setup attempt, which is a 50/50 at best, for a contested shot from the circle against a barely screened goalie, you're not going to score many goals.
On the PK teams just massacre us with the cross seam pass to the LW faceoff circle. Ovi, Caufield, Pastrnak, Stamkos, any friggin right shot who plays there knows theyre putting up points that night when they're playing Toronto. The cross seam pass to the right side isn't quite as bad, it's only Kucherov who takes us to school there. Our forwards never get their sticks in that cross seam lane, the puck will go back to the defenseman, who passes to the RW forward who immediately zips it over to the LW and we're fishing it out of the net.
