What Should be done with the Power Play?

[The Iceman]

I think the elephant in the room is big enough for the PP to have its own thread. Does our young PP coach know what the hell he is doing???

We have a PP coach who is known for his defensive attention to detail. Can he coach a NHL PP?
His power play MO is to have 2 pp units.
IMO this is not coaching to your roster. If the Leafs had a bunch of similar forwards going 2 units makes sense.
The way our personel is assembled we are super top heavy with SUPER offensively talented forwards.

There is no question in my mind the team should revert back to the proven top 5 in Matthews, Tavares, Willy, Mitch, and Morgan. And roll them hard. It is insanity sharing minutes with lesser players when we have the offensive firepower we do. To the point that Boyd would get PP1 minutes with Willy rotting on the bench. The only experiment I might try is getting Muzz the odd look at PP1 and his heavy shot from the point.

I originally loved the Simmonds net front presence on the PP. Watching carefully last night the puck found Simmonds twice on the PP before he got set up in his house, and both times he turned it over.

Our PP2 can still be effective with Spezza, Jumbo, Simmonds, Galchenyuk/Hyman, Muzz.

With all the amateur coaches on this site I am certain we can fix this thing

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[Mr Hockey]

hope we stop running into hot goalies?

 

[Isaac Nootin]

Let the roughly 50 million dollars on the ice figure it out.

 

[ChickenMcNugget]

Feed the points more. Setup screens. The usual

 

[Gabriel426]

Dont understand why Keefe won't go back to the Big Four plus Reilly on the PP.
Then run with Spezza, Hyman, Jumbo, Simmonds and TJ on the 2nd unit.

 

[Buds17]

The roster makeup definitely lends itself to stacking the first PP unit IMO. I'm not sure if the lulls are always related to the personnel though when they occur.

 

[Thissiteisgarbage]

Wasn't a big part of Muzzin coming in was his "heavy slapshot" from the point? What happened to that?

 

[mcleex]

Rielly needs to stop quarterbacking it for 1. Guy can't shoot if his life depends on it.

In order to quarterback the PP you need a proper point shot that'll keep goalies and defenseman honest

 

[fahad203]

Rielly needs to stop quarterbacking it for 1. Guy can't shoot if his life depends on it.

In order to quarterback the PP you need a proper point shot that'll keep goalies and defenseman honest

This is exactly it other teams knows our tendencies and know shooter always going be Matthews or Nylander. So they collapse front of the net

 

[Teeder Keon]

Don’t accept it , decline the opportunity!

 

[Optimist]

Rielly needs to stop quarterbacking it for 1. Guy can't shoot if his life depends on it.

In order to quarterback the PP you need a proper point shot that'll keep goalies and defenseman honest

This. Or even keep Rielly entirely off of the pp. I'm tired of his weak wristers into traffic that almost always result in a turnover.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Let Spezza rip some more

 

[A1LeafNation]

Two different looking units to screw up the opposition game planning.

Spezza Tavares Galchenyuk
Rielly Nylander

Simmonds Thornton Matthews
Muzzin Marner

Playmaker, shooter, netfront presence up front. Shooter and playmaker on the back end.

 

[AvroArrow]

Get bodies in front of the net, shoot the damn puck. So much over passing the last few games. I'd like to get Simmonds in front of the net again, he was huge for us early on this year on the PP.

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Take it out the back and shoot it.

 

[slozo]

Nothing much.

Seriously, our guys are talented, our power play was so amazing beforehand that we still have a top 3 in the league after this crazy slump . . . and it's just a combination of things really that you can't always control completely, one of them being chance, another being the goalies you're playing.

Keep plugging away, and the goals will come.
Same thing I would have said to Matthews when he didn't score for like 5 games.

 

[socko]

PP#1
Hyman
Matthews-Galchenyuk-Marner
Rielly

PP#2
Simmonds
Nylander-Tavares-Spezza
Brodie

Get Marner off of the point, he's bad at it. Move Matthews back to the other side. Use Galchenyuk. Perhaps replace Hyman with Thornton at times if Thornton is playing well for the superior passing element.

 

[Atomos2]

Split up Matthews and Marner. Seems their pp is becoming too predictable. Give more time to the unit that is going.

Hyman-Tavares-Galchenyuk
Rielly-Marner

Nylander-Matthews-Thornton
Brodie-Spezza

 

[The Iceman]

Nothing much.

Seriously, our guys are talented, our power play was so amazing beforehand that we still have a top 3 in the league after this crazy slump . . . and it's just a combination of things really that you can't always control completely, one of them being chance, another being the goalies you're playing.

Keep plugging away, and the goals will come.
Same thing I would have said to Matthews when he didn't score for like 5 games.

PP 8th now.
.1 away from 10th
And definetly trending the wrong direction

 

[slozo]

PP 8th now.
.1 away from 10th
And definetly trending the wrong direction

Ah, fair enough, right you are . . . we're in 8th, .1 percentage points away from 7th

But trending is incorrect - it's a straight up slump, that's it.
Trending would mean it's a slower and more gradual decline, as opposed to a sudden, 2 week slump.

But maybe we're .1 goals away from getting out of it

 

[Suntouchable13]

Just load it up, and play them 1:30 of the pp. They are your best players, play them a lot on the PP. They will start lighting it up eventually.

Rielly
Marner-Matthews-Willy
JT

 

[Wafflewhipper]

Take it out the back and shoot it

 

[CanadasTeam]

Appoint a random shooter per PP (*anybody not named Rielly)

 

[Mickey Marner]

I kind of like Poulin's idea of not practising the powerplay at all. Just wing it, they're talented enough to figure it out. Take Rielly off PP1 though, his muffin shot is a huge problem.

 

[Gallagbi]

Feed the points more. Setup screens. The usual

If anything we need the puck lower, not higher IMO.