A true penalty kill? The ability to decline a power play? A time machine? Beyond the obvious of asking for a clean bill of health and fewer postponements, hayyyshayyy looks at teams' strengths and weaknesses to see what they may want heading into 2022.
In the spirit of the holidays, we’re looking at what might be on certain teams' wish lists at this point in the season. Obviously everyone probably is asking for a clean bill of health in general, plus fewer postponed games and complications that come with the current environment. But aside from that, we want to look at some strengths and weaknesses to see what they could want -- realistic or unrealistic -- moving forward in to 2022.
While the Golden Knights have been among the league’s best in creating offence while down a player, they haven’t suppressed it as well, conceding 1.99 expected goals against per 60 landing them 29th in that defensive metric. And their goaltending hasn’t been perfect behind that workload either. Both contribute to a 77.5 per cent efficiency on the PK.
Without some legitimate changes to their play on the power play, it’s deflated the Devils at points and cost them close games.Since Bruce Boudreau took over behind the bench, the Canucks are 6-0-0. Sometimes, teams need to hit rock bottom before they rebound since the only way to go is up. But maybe this was a change that could have come sooner to improve their chances of fighting their way up the Pacific Division standings.
Without Bertuzzi, they’ve lost their first three games over the border. They’ll miss him again, unless something changes, in six upcoming games in Canada. That’s the potential for 12 points that this team is going to need if they want to maintain their wild card standing.The Kraken are one of the stronger defensive teams in the league. They limit their shots against both at 5-on-5 and while shorthanded; in all situations they allow the eighth-lowest rate of shots against, at 56.3 per 60 minutes.
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