[Jonas Siegel] Menés par Guy Boucher, les Leafs effectuent des exercices en avantage numérique pour la première fois au camp d’entraînement. John Klingberg – et non Morgan Rielly – gère le PP1 aux côtés d’Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares et William Nylander.
Led by Guy Boucher, the Leafs are running power-play drills for the first time at training camp.
John Klingberg — not Morgan Rielly — is manning the point of PP1 alongside Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares, and William Nylander.
— Jonas Siegel (@jonassiegel) September 23, 2023
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As he should be, Klingberg wasn’t signed to be a stay at home dman.
I mean that’s why we got him right
That video of him feeding Marner sauce after sauce made me sure this would be the case.
Other than Mitch who has an avg shot / elite playmaking.. that’s potential 4 bomb shots. No idea how this gets covered
I am a massive fan of Mo and have him on my fantasy hockey team and I still agree with this choice. If Klinberg can bring a true shot presence from the point he needs to be on PP1. Mo is great a keeping plays alive at the blue line, staying composed and getting wrist shots through for tips but he lacks a true shot/ one timer threat that allows teams to key to much on Auston. Hopefully this works out well for our PP1
Hopefully this will give a boost to both powerplay units.
Also, Rielly usually plays the most minutes out of any Leaf. This could be good to keep him fresh.
Lol at not having bertuzzi in your 1pp
Fuck Tavares.
Run Tavares Mo robertson Knies and Domi pp2
Yep. You use the right tool for the job.
Meaning Domi, Bert, Knies, and Rielly are left for PP2. Sounds like the best second PP unit we’ve had in a long time.
No disrespect to Morgan but Klinger is the PP1 guy, he’s made his career off his blue line offensive abilities. With him on the blue line we finally have a legit threat from a Dman on our PP1.
HYPE!
they need a bomber at the point to stop the pk from sagging back towards Matthews.
Klingberg is a shooting threat from the point. Should open up more time and space for the big boys as the opposition HAS to legitimately cover the point to eliminate that threat. In previously years, look at how our PP has been defended against. They collapse down low and pay little heed to getting up top trying to block any point shots because it has such a low chance of happening and being successful. I’m looking forward to seeing Klinger there.
Duh
Did they work on drop passes out of the zone cause….
Good
OVERREACTION SEASON. LET’S GOOOOO
I swear to god if I see one drop pass on the power play this season I am going to commit.
Klingberg going to be awful at 5v5 but remain in the lineup just for power play purpose. Isn’t he?