[Fox] Guy Boucher will take over the Maple Leafs’ power play. Dean Chynoweth will continue to run Leafs PK. Mike van Ryn will help on PK and run the defence. Manny Malhotra continues to focus on faceoffs and prescouts and will move up from bench to an “eye in the sky” position during games.
Guy Boucher will take over the Maple Leafs' power play.
Malhotra for faceoffs??? lmfao we were already a top faceoff team before he joined hahaha
scooter540
Van Ryn running the defence is a bit concerning. He did a pretty bad job of that with St.Louis.
thet1m
Malholtra has been such a wildcard. First we have him running a pp, then a pk and now it’s only faceoffs. He must be ready for a better opportunity if it arises.
CTHT07
Does this mean Keefe is in charge of forwards? His line combos have been a disaster for years. If Matthews and Marner are on the same line again to start the year I hope we start slow and Keefe gets fired. I don’t know how much longer I can watch him try and put a square peg in a round hole.
icheerforvillains
I felt like the Leafs had a garbage PP last year, but then the stats say they were second best?
Maybe it’s just that their play on the PP was so uninspiring but they somehow managed to convert despite themselves?
Anyone living in the same cognitive dissonance chamber?
Sirrebral99
We have the personnel to have an elite, consistent powerplay it’s just to predictable. The attack is linear and usually is:
Nylander zone entry -> cycle to Marner -> pitch and catch with Reilly/Marner/Willy off boards -> try to force a one timer to Matthews or bumper to JT / tip (we usually don’t shoot for tips cause it’s a possession strategy though). Teams read this easily, isolate Matthews for the shooting threat, and pressure Marner and it limits the PP tremendously.
Add Klingburg (who has a cannon of a slapper, and is right handed) to mix up a one time option from the point, add in a new mix on the strategy and we could see a lot of improvement. Also, this year we finally have the depth for a good 2nd unit (Domi / Bertuzzi along with Reilly or Klingburg, whoeever doesn’t play on PP1) could finally be an option for us.
mtrunz
Our pp has become extremely predictable so I guess changing the voice could help. The personnel likely remains similar just with a hopefully bolstered pp2. Should be interesting.
I’m not entirely convinced Boucher is the guy I want running pp over say defence but hey ho. It’ll be interesting to see what changes we make.
Big_Albatross_3050
I think we have the personel to run a PP1a and PP1b. I’d imagine after 34/16, we’d have some combo of Mo, Klingberg, Bert, Domi, Tavares, and Willy and to a lesser extent Nicky Bobby/Knies/Lilli in case of injury or garbage time
keep the opposing PK on their toes and if someone goes cold in the playoffs, there’s at least 2 forwards to replace them
J_Bizzle82
I really hope that means the drop pass entry strategy is no longer used 95% of pp entries. I hate that play so much now 😂
Randomredditor416
Man that’s crazy that you can be employed for such a long time focusing on face-offs. Like what additional info can you give the players after the first 10 minutes?
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Malhotra for faceoffs??? lmfao we were already a top faceoff team before he joined hahaha
Van Ryn running the defence is a bit concerning. He did a pretty bad job of that with St.Louis.
Malholtra has been such a wildcard. First we have him running a pp, then a pk and now it’s only faceoffs. He must be ready for a better opportunity if it arises.
Does this mean Keefe is in charge of forwards? His line combos have been a disaster for years. If Matthews and Marner are on the same line again to start the year I hope we start slow and Keefe gets fired. I don’t know how much longer I can watch him try and put a square peg in a round hole.
I felt like the Leafs had a garbage PP last year, but then the stats say they were second best?
Maybe it’s just that their play on the PP was so uninspiring but they somehow managed to convert despite themselves?
Anyone living in the same cognitive dissonance chamber?
We have the personnel to have an elite, consistent powerplay it’s just to predictable. The attack is linear and usually is:
Nylander zone entry -> cycle to Marner -> pitch and catch with Reilly/Marner/Willy off boards -> try to force a one timer to Matthews or bumper to JT / tip (we usually don’t shoot for tips cause it’s a possession strategy though). Teams read this easily, isolate Matthews for the shooting threat, and pressure Marner and it limits the PP tremendously.
Add Klingburg (who has a cannon of a slapper, and is right handed) to mix up a one time option from the point, add in a new mix on the strategy and we could see a lot of improvement. Also, this year we finally have the depth for a good 2nd unit (Domi / Bertuzzi along with Reilly or Klingburg, whoeever doesn’t play on PP1) could finally be an option for us.
Our pp has become extremely predictable so I guess changing the voice could help. The personnel likely remains similar just with a hopefully bolstered pp2. Should be interesting.
I’m not entirely convinced Boucher is the guy I want running pp over say defence but hey ho. It’ll be interesting to see what changes we make.
I think we have the personel to run a PP1a and PP1b. I’d imagine after 34/16, we’d have some combo of Mo, Klingberg, Bert, Domi, Tavares, and Willy and to a lesser extent Nicky Bobby/Knies/Lilli in case of injury or garbage time
keep the opposing PK on their toes and if someone goes cold in the playoffs, there’s at least 2 forwards to replace them
I really hope that means the drop pass entry strategy is no longer used 95% of pp entries. I hate that play so much now 😂
Man that’s crazy that you can be employed for such a long time focusing on face-offs. Like what additional info can you give the players after the first 10 minutes?