Kings Penalty Kill, or lack thereof

[spudboy]

Why is the Kings PK playing a box, instead of a diamond. They are giving up one-timers from the sides that are resulting in lots of goals against.

 

[symbology]

Why is the Kings PK playing a box, instead of a diamond. They are giving up one-timers from the sides that are resulting in lots of goals against.

Ken Holland made some moves to improve the PK. Last season the Kings were ranked 8th overall and killed off 81.4% of the man advantages. After Hollands upgrades/changes the Kings are ranked 28th and only kill of 75.3%.

As for box vs diamond vs oval vs broken triangle, the only thing I can point to is.... ^^^^ the above changes and missing a happy Danault.

 

[Nyssa42]

Need to get Trevor Lewis out of retirement

 

[DarkLeftHand]

Jared Wright should start killing penalties. That kid has crazy acceleration, and good size.

 

[Bollocks]

Jared Wright should start killing penalties. That kid has crazy acceleration, and good size.

It sure is worth a try. You can't break much more what's already very broken, so...

Not sure how much PK time he saw in the AHL as I can't for the life of me find the stats, but he scored 2 shorties, so it's likely he saw extensive PK time there. And Ontario is 4th overall in the standings and 4th overall in PK.

 

[DarkLeftHand]

It sure is worth a try. You can't break much more what's already very broken, so...

Not sure how much PK time he saw in the AHL as I can't for the life of me find the stats, but he scored 2 shorties, so it's likely he saw extensive PK time there. And Ontario is 4th overall in the standings and 4th overall in PK.

Just a hunch based on what the eye test tells me. To clarify, I’m not an NHL coach, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night..