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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Savard had one NHL season as an AC and then was an HC in junior. I don't know but I'm betting that junior power plays are a lot less structured and there's a lot more chances bercause the defence is just not as good. Though when he was in St. Louis their PP was 3rd in the league and was over 24%.
I'd really like to know who good PP coaches are in this league. I've heard Tanguay in Detroit, Carbery when he was in TO.
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Thats actually a really good question. Seems good power play depends much more on personnel and execution than structure, but at the same time I do wonder what the Flames are actually trying to do when they get the man advantage. It seems to me they don't have a great understanding of how to gain the zone clean, and then how to generate scoring chances with traffic.
Powerplays are all about small odd-man situations, often 3 on 2 anywhere on the ice. The Flames seem to set up a 3-2 up high and leave the low porrtion of the zone 2 on 2, which to me doesnt seem to work because the Flames lack a truely scary shooter from the point. So they pass it between 3 players high in the zone, none of which are truly a threat to blast a puck past a goaling that isnt heavily screened because there's only 2 players trying to get anything going on the low end of the zone.
With a powerplay as poor as the Flames' has been, why not just try to get a bunch of bodies near the goaltender and get some shots through the havoc? what's the worst that will happen? Odd-man rushes the other way when the shot gets blocked? oh well they are giving them up anyway.