Our special teams are so weird.
- How is it not obvious that Brodie struggles as the lone point man? He's just not fluid offensively, holds the puck too long and doesn't have a shot that needs to be respected. On the last power play in the third period he held the puck too long, the wild defender closed in, so rather than pass the puck Brodie decided to try and outskate him to create space. Pointlessly risky play, but just reflective of his discomfort out there.
- Having Brodie as lone point man lets the other team's PK to more easily collapse down and clog the lanes. That hurts Gaudreau especially and removes the cross-ice pass from his options. I can't remember the last time he tried such a play on the PP.
- They need the second point man closer to the blue line in order to force another of the penalty killers to make a choice to close the man on the blue line or clog the lane down low. Right now that penalty killer doesn't need to do anything other than collapse and clog the lane since our second point man is down low near the faceoff circle.
- I didn't think jankowski was the obvious problem on the PP unit. But if you're going to replace him with brouwer, don't make it at the expense of moving Monahan out of his office. In the PP in the third, Monahan was by the outside hash marks rather than in front of the net because of Brouwer. Monahan should not be out there trying to set up the play.
- Our PK gives up the cross ice pass from hash mark to hash mark too easily. Way too easily.
|