The PK is going to be much worse than it was last year.
Giroux/ ??
Betts/ ??
Can Talbot kill penalties?
Our PK was 15th last year, and we had two of the so called best PKers in the league.
Giroux/Holmstrom
Betts/Talbot
It's not star studded like the last several years, but I'm tired of putting so much stock into paper lineups only to be let down. It's time to let performance and execution determine who plays, not just hand all the responsibilities to Richards and Carter.
Our PK was 15th last year, and we had two of the so called best PKers in the league.
Giroux/Holmstrom
Betts/Talbot
It's not star studded like the last several years, but I'm tired of putting so much stock into paper lineups only to be let down. It's time to let performance and execution determine who plays, not just hand all the responsibilities to Richards and Carter.
So who else would have killed penalties if Richards wasn't?
So who else would have killed penalties if Richards wasn't?
I wanted us to use a third forward pairing more often. We were really dogging our pk players at times. Betts and Powe both averaged more than 3 minutes a game. They ranked 1 and 3 league wide among forwards with that.
Carter-Nödl could have been a decent pairing to spare them once in a while. Especially Betts looked pretty tired and wasn't as effective as the previous season.
I wanted us to use a third forward pairing more often. We were really dogging our pk players at times. Betts and Powe both averaged more than 3 minutes a game. They ranked 1 and 3 league wide with that.
Carter-Nödl could have been a decent pairing to spare them once in a while. Especially Betts looked pretty tired and wasn't as effective as the previous season.
I'd be totally down for a shut down pair and a turnover pair.
I say throw Betts and Talbot against the top line or for a majority, then throw out Giroux and JVR against the second PP unit or the end half. JVR and Giroux are feisty and were literally feasting on turnovers last year, JVR especially came alive in the playoffs. They'd be more liable, but I could definitely see them not only generating offense, but striking fear into the opposing team and making them think twice about cross-ice setups for rockets that most teams love.
Our PK was 15th last year, and we had two of the so called best PKers in the league.
Giroux/Holmstrom
Betts/Talbot
It's not star studded like the last several years, but I'm tired of putting so much stock into paper lineups only to be let down. It's time to let performance and execution determine who plays, not just hand all the responsibilities to Richards and Carter.
The PK is probably the main reason Nodl and Betts keep a job.
we saw jvr kill some penalties last year too and he looked pretty good.
I say PK is:
G and Nodl
Talbot and Betts
JVR if needed as well as Schenn (maybe not until he gets some games under his belt)
Almost all the D will PK maybe, not Pronger since he has had some injury problems recently
PP lines are really hard to predict because they have a lot of talent to be used on there but also cause lavy can be a goofball sometimes. Over the past two years I've seen Carcillo on the PP way too many times and last year Nodl got some time too. I won't even try to make lines but the forwards who definitely see consistent PP time IMO are G, JVR, Briere, Jagr, Schenn (maybe not early in the season) and voracek. If Hartnell is playing like he was in 08 i see him getting time too.
For the powerplay, I kind of see Hartnell being the odd man out and Schenn getting a shot.
I would go with JVR-Giroux-Jagr & Schenn-Briere-Voracek
I prefer two skilled powerplay units. I've seen Hartnell too many times take a dumb penalty while we're up a man to put him back out there when we have Schenn now.
