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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
We're 1/3 through the season and the Flames' special teams are still sitting in the League's basement. The team has lost a lot of games and potential points because of the ineptitude of the systems.
The same group over the course of the 2 prior seasons were about league average on the Powerplay with approximately 17%-18%. The team is currently at 10% which is on track to become the worst power play since the Lockout. That's historically bad. So literally, they could try just about anything else at this point and it probably would be better than what we've seen so far up to date. In my opinion, since this is a copycat league, the team should try to copy one of the best power plays over the last decade and that's the Washington Capitals 1-3-1 set up. We don't quite have the same personnel, but I see a lot of similar tools.
Here's how I see it potentially setting up.
Using Giordano as the "Ovechkin" of the power play is not necessarily ideal, but he does have one of the best one timers on the team and his shot has registered well over 100MPH. Gaudreau would be used as the "Backstrom" of the power play as this will give him many potential options in which he can control whether or not the puck should be directed to the net or to the point or cross ice for the one timer. Monahan will be stationed in the slot for a potential slap pass redirection or tip ins and Matthew Tkachuk will be stationed beside the net where he is accustomed to being scoring garbage goals or finding Monahan in the slot. Brodie will be used as their John Carlson because he can distribute the puck nicely from forehand to backhand and has the quickness to race back to the defensive zone just in case there are turnovers.
After watching the Captials dominate on the power play for years and watching how well they control the offensive zone and generate countless chances, I'm convinced this is the way to go. This structure has been proven to be successful in the past and the Capitals PP has consistently hovered around the top of the league for the last decade and I guarantee it'll be much more successful than the current system the team has deployed. |
This seems to be exactly what we did on Gio's goal last night.