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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Brouwer on PP
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Yep, I agree with all of that.
I think the PP arrangement needs a massive overhaul in personnel and strategy. Brodie rushing to the blueline to swing the puck back to Johnny doesn't work when we ONLY do it because if Johnny gets squeezed off he either flips it over to Monahan who has to then make a tough play under pressure, or Johnny dumps it in and tries to win the puck back which is a very tall order for him usually.
Taking Brouwer off and subbing someone else in will not improve things with the current strategy. We've seen Janko instead with no improvement because he's not effective in that "Versteeg" role either.
Putting Stone on the point seems like such an obvious concept for several reasons. The main one being his willingness to shoot (especially one timers). Even if we put him on and he never scored with a shot, his very presence forces the opponent's PK to change to try and prevent those shots, which creates time and space for the other 4 Flames out there...
We saw the Flames click on the PP last year around the big win in CBJ, and it was obviously largely because of how Versteeg changed things. Problem is that Versteeg is out now, we need to change things up because that strategy does not work without Versteeg whatsoever.