Oct 5 Practice notes

[Enoch Root]

And maybe he continues to improve.

Not all players hit their peak immediately, some develop into it. Josh Morrissey never hit 40 points before last year, but grew into his role as the PP quarterback. Andersson is doing similar.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Well, I would be very surprised to see the Flames go with five forwards on the power play, and Anderson was their best producing defenseman on the power play by a country mile last year. That's why.

LOL. did you even watch last year? He was the "best" producing because he go the majority of the ice time.

hmmm point man on the 1st unit pp in the NHL. HE HAD ONE GOAL!!!! 1 goal!!!!!!!hahahahaha

[Wastedyouth]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

LOL. did you even watch last year? He was the "best" producing because he go the majority of the ice time.

hmmm point man on the 1st unit pp in the NHL. HE HAD ONE GOAL!!!! 1 goal!!!!!!!hahahahaha

Take your meds dude.

[gvitaly]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Why Andersson? He was pretty terrible last year and wouldn't shoot. Making it a 4 on 4 powerplay when he was manning the point.

I think he's one of the best D at keeping the puck in the offensive zone. He's decent at quarterbacking it from the back despite not taking too many shots.

Also it's hard to evaluate the set plays a PP has. If your coach considers a shot from the point on the PP, as a low scoring chance that gives the puck away. I think a lot of it has to do with the ability of getting pucks through, or having guys that are very good at deflecting pucks(like Pavelski)

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by gvitaly

I think he's one of the best D at keeping the puck in the offensive zone. He's decent at quarterbacking it from the back despite not taking too many shots.

Also it's hard to evaluate the set plays a PP has. If your coach considers a shot from the point on the PP, as a low scoring chance that gives the puck away. I think a lot of it has to do with the ability of getting pucks through, or having guys that are very good at deflecting pucks(like Pavelski)

He has the shot. why doesn't he shoot? when he doesn't, the PKers don't even bother to cover the point.

Our PP was so god awful last year and it prob pissed away at least 12-15 points in the standings. At least Savard should be able to figure this out pretty quickly.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by memphusk

That first powerplay unit sure sounds underwhelming.

I don't like the way it sounds, either but I'm more interested in how it looks.

[gvitaly]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

He has the shot. why doesn't he shoot? when he doesn't, the PKers don't even bother to cover the point.

Our PP was so god awful last year and it prob pissed away at least 12-15 points in the standings. At least Savard should be able to figure this out pretty quickly.

I'm guessing that he takes too long to shoot the puck. By the time he receives the pass and is set to shoot the puck all the lanes to the net are blocked.

He's also not confident enough at walking the line and changing the angle, or beating the guy covering the point 1 on 1. It seems as though Rasmus rather get rid of the puck when he feels pressure than try the risky play and beat the forward.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

Our PP was so god awful last year and it prob pissed away at least 12-15 points in the standings. At least Savard should be able to figure this out pretty quickly.

The Flames' PP last year was ‘so god awful’ that a 16th-place team in the standings was 19th on the power play. Their PP% was 19.84 against a league average of 21.31, and they scored 50 PPG against a league average of 54.

I'm having a hard time seeing how four more goals would have given the Flames 12-15 more points.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Yeah, the failure to prepare for 3 on 3 is something I’d point to as a reason they missed the playoffs over the PP

(Still boggles my mind that the brilliant mind who expected 1 goal games didn’t anticipate a material enough amount of OT to warrant practicing it)

[Finger Cookin]

Make the rest of the roster cuts tomorrow, congratulate those who made the team, and treat tomorrow like opening night. Get all the bad season opener play out of our system. They don't even need to go 100% tomorrow, and they rarely do anyway in the regular season. Just tell 'em to go 70% tomorrow night and then practice for Game 1 next week.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by _Q_

I think Schwindt gets cut and that's your 2023/24 Flames.

Schwindt or Klapka