Whether you care about analytics or not they’re scoring 55% of the real goals at 5v5. That would be their highest total in god knows how long.
If the powerplay isn’t completely abysmal there is a strong chance they win last night and get at least a point against the Kings and one of the Devils games.
The encouraging thing is that if they can get an even average powerplay their 5v5 play has been more than good enough to be a playoff team. These games have not been against easy opponents.
WearsTheLAMsauce
Can someone decode these acronyms? All I know if Goals For %
OSomma
The problem is that our PP has been terrible for a while now, so it doesn’t seem like there is going to be a major shift any time soon. They aren’t even making incremental improvements
mwthomas11
Not bad special teams, bad powerplay specifically. PK has been great outside of last night. Can’t be 0 for 15 on the powerplay though like jesus. They can’t even get in the zone.
Derrico85
It’s almost like we should not have brought back the same guy that ran the powerplay last year (Matt Ellis)
80085PEN15
Does Ellis still run PP? If so he’s absolutely PPing his pants with the group.
EamusAndy
At some point we have to stop just accepting moral victories for this team as positives.
Much-Consequence8648
Shooting is at 9% though
SabresMakeMeDrink
Minus those 2 Devils games we have played good hockey, just struggle with defending a lead
TheFerricGenum
Since this has been an issue for…checks notes…1.5 years, just skate 4 on 4 and leave a trailer to defend and prevent the inevitable breakaway we give up.
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Whether you care about analytics or not they’re scoring 55% of the real goals at 5v5. That would be their highest total in god knows how long.
If the powerplay isn’t completely abysmal there is a strong chance they win last night and get at least a point against the Kings and one of the Devils games.
The encouraging thing is that if they can get an even average powerplay their 5v5 play has been more than good enough to be a playoff team. These games have not been against easy opponents.
Can someone decode these acronyms? All I know if Goals For %
The problem is that our PP has been terrible for a while now, so it doesn’t seem like there is going to be a major shift any time soon. They aren’t even making incremental improvements
Not bad special teams, bad powerplay specifically. PK has been great outside of last night. Can’t be 0 for 15 on the powerplay though like jesus. They can’t even get in the zone.
It’s almost like we should not have brought back the same guy that ran the powerplay last year (Matt Ellis)
Does Ellis still run PP? If so he’s absolutely PPing his pants with the group.
At some point we have to stop just accepting moral victories for this team as positives.
Shooting is at 9% though
Minus those 2 Devils games we have played good hockey, just struggle with defending a lead
Since this has been an issue for…checks notes…1.5 years, just skate 4 on 4 and leave a trailer to defend and prevent the inevitable breakaway we give up.