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13 hours ago, janisahockeynut said:

What I really notice here, is the movement of ALL the offensive players....lots of movement

Notice that the movement is essentially rotation. The defenders have to move in order to defend; something that our first unit does not do, they stay on the outside and don't rotate, so that the defenders just come out to them and pin them to the boards - board battles that we consistently lose. if the PP is static, it is easy to block passing lanes, until you rotate, nothing opens up. Movement creates passing lanes, plus it drags players out of position - reversing rotation does the same only moreso.

Our PK problems are the reverse of our PP problem.  We stay in the middle of the ice and the other team has open lanes to pass through everytime they move. We are dead on the PK because we don't pressure the side boards - we let them find great looks because the enemy PP has all the time in the world.  Give NHL players that kind of time and they will do exactly what they are doing - murdering us.  It does not help that none of the pairings are intact from last year, and we have had precious little practice time - but even last year with consistent pairings we were at best middle of the pack.

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7 hours ago, Ray_Cathode said:

Notice that the movement is essentially rotation. The defenders have to move in order to defend; something that our first unit does not do, they stay on the outside and don't rotate, so that the defenders just come out to them and pin them to the boards - board battles that we consistently lose. if the PP is static, it is easy to block passing lanes, until you rotate, nothing opens up. Movement creates passing lanes, plus it drags players out of position - reversing rotation does the same only moreso.

Our PK problems are the reverse of our PP problem.  We stay in the middle of the ice and the other team has open lanes to pass through everytime they move. We are dead on the PK because we don't pressure the side boards - we let them find great looks because the enemy PP has all the time in the world.  Give NHL players that kind of time and they will do exactly what they are doing - murdering us.  It does not help that none of the pairings are intact from last year, and we have had precious little practice time - but even last year with consistent pairings we were at best middle of the pack.

Exactly, my point.

 

Further more here we have QH on the PP, one of the leagues most agile players, and we do not give him much of an option. I makes me think we are not giving him the most opportunities we could. Same thing goes for EP, who can play both LW, RW and plays the point regularly. So him rotating would open so many more chances.

 

As for the PK......we are very passive on it compared to other PK's I see. 

 

Honestly, I really think out special teams are coached poorly. Even when our PP was good, I did not like the non-motion set up. The one thing about the Russian PP was they are not up against the boards, they are are actually off them a little. I guess, if we were actually a little more successful, we would not be whining, so I guess we will see.

 

I find we are like minded on these issues Ray. Cheers!

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5 hours ago, janisahockeynut said:

Exactly, my point.

 

Further more here we have QH on the PP, one of the leagues most agile players, and we do not give him much of an option. I makes me think we are not giving him the most opportunities we could. Same thing goes for EP, who can play both LW, RW and plays the point regularly. So him rotating would open so many more chances.

 

As for the PK......we are very passive on it compared to other PK's I see. 

 

Honestly, I really think out special teams are coached poorly. Even when our PP was good, I did not like the non-motion set up. The one thing about the Russian PP was they are not up against the boards, they are are actually off them a little. I guess, if we were actually a little more successful, we would not be whining, so I guess we will see.

 

I find we are like minded on these issues Ray. Cheers!

With regard to the Russians playing slightly off the boards, that could be because their rinks are about fifteen feet wider than official NHL rinks. (NHL 200x85, Europe 197x98.4)

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19 hours ago, Ray_Cathode said:

With regard to the Russians playing slightly off the boards, that could be because their rinks are about fifteen feet wider than official NHL rinks. (NHL 200x85, Europe 197x98.4)

Tryamkin’s team plays on the Finnish format.  Podkolzin’s SKA uses the NHL size.  There’s probably less than 5 teams still playing on European ice - was supposed to be 2 for this season but the pandemic might have caused transformation delays.  All teams will have adjusted to either Finnish or NHL size rinks by 2021/22.  

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