Re: RPI 2011-12 Part II: We Like to Post!
The past few years our power play has seemed to had a frustrating lack of SOG--I would joke that we thought PP stood for "passing practice". However, inevitably one of those passes would find Chase and he would put it in the net. Being without Polacek this year we've had to restructure it, and it looked fantastic against Acadia. However, against our WCHA opponents we haven't even had the opportunity to pass around them-it seems more often than not they steal the puck and we're down in our own zone, trying to kill our own power play. I'm confident we'll figure it out soon however.
As for pulling the goalie, I'm not sure how the times shook out exactly, but we took a penalty awfully close to the end of the third. I think Appert pulled Bryce just to get us to an even number of skaters.
One thing that should definitely be addressed, though, is the 2-for-34 power play. Say what you want about our competition, but that is just plain abysmal. I've only been able to watch one game so I can't make any intelligent statements as to what is happening, but I will ask questions. Are we going back to our 2007-09 ways? Is there no shooting and instead just looking for a back-door pass? Are we not moving the puck quick enough? Are we just up against good defense and not much we can do about it? Even that last question I'm willing to accept.
Penalty kill and process are nice, we seem to have those down, but at the end of the day, if you can't put the puck in the net, you can't win. We had our chances, we couldn't take advantage, we lose.
The past few years our power play has seemed to had a frustrating lack of SOG--I would joke that we thought PP stood for "passing practice". However, inevitably one of those passes would find Chase and he would put it in the net. Being without Polacek this year we've had to restructure it, and it looked fantastic against Acadia. However, against our WCHA opponents we haven't even had the opportunity to pass around them-it seems more often than not they steal the puck and we're down in our own zone, trying to kill our own power play. I'm confident we'll figure it out soon however.
As for pulling the goalie, I'm not sure how the times shook out exactly, but we took a penalty awfully close to the end of the third. I think Appert pulled Bryce just to get us to an even number of skaters.
