I'm sure everyone in Leaf Nation must perplexed, bewildered and especially frustrated that we can't seem to PK for the life of us. I am going to propose a couple of things and then open it up with some questions:
First, from what I've seen of the more successful PK teams, they are a lot more aggressive than the Leafs. You have to treat the person with the puck, like a linebacker blitzing a quarterback, you have to rush them into a bad play, a bad pass or fumbling the puck to create turnovers. if you just stand there, waving your stick back and forth, the guy with the puck is just going to wait until someone is open. This doesn't seem like rocket science to me.
They should at least look at what the successful PK teams are doing and try to copy it as much as possible? They couldn't do any worse.
Questions:
1.Why is that the Leafs seem to have trouble creating screens on the PP, getting deflections, etc. when the opposition has no trouble at all? They need to move some of these bodies from in front of their net.
2.Do you feel it is more a personnel issue on the PK or more a coaching issue?
3.Why is Dupius still in the NHL?
First, from what I've seen of the more successful PK teams, they are a lot more aggressive than the Leafs. You have to treat the person with the puck, like a linebacker blitzing a quarterback, you have to rush them into a bad play, a bad pass or fumbling the puck to create turnovers. if you just stand there, waving your stick back and forth, the guy with the puck is just going to wait until someone is open. This doesn't seem like rocket science to me.
They should at least look at what the successful PK teams are doing and try to copy it as much as possible? They couldn't do any worse.
Questions:
1.Why is that the Leafs seem to have trouble creating screens on the PP, getting deflections, etc. when the opposition has no trouble at all? They need to move some of these bodies from in front of their net.
2.Do you feel it is more a personnel issue on the PK or more a coaching issue?
3.Why is Dupius still in the NHL?