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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Ignoring all the stats (good and bad), watching our PP and comparing it to other teams, I don't like what I see and I have 3 major issues with it:
1) they use the same zone entry almost every time. It is mind-numbingly predictable
2) they have very little movement, they just stand around and pass it back and forth until they fumble a pass
3) I am not a fan of the 1-3-1. I find that the middle guy (Monahan, in our case), being in the middle of the box, is almost impossible to pass to. Watching Canada's PP in the WJs was interesting. They also deployed the 1-3-1 with Dube in that spot. It was extremely difficult to get him the puck in that situation as well. Just too heavily covered.
My preferred PP is two bombs from the point, a set-up guy on either side, and a big-body tip-in guy in front. And lots of movement.
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I mostly agree with this, but I do think 1-3-1 can be effective
some times. I don't understand why they don't switch between the two. They have the personnel to do it, and it would make them so much less predictable.