Comments on: Break it down! – PK

By: Mr.Majestyk

Mr.Majestyk — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:24:25 +0000

I wonder if the strategy on the PK will change. I mean, there aren’t a whole lot of different strategies for PK, but I just mean we might try a bit more pressure on the puck, try and force some turnovers. We have players with speed that should be able to do this. Too bad Cogs can’t win a faceoff, he’s the ideal guy for this. How many breakaways would he get if he PK’d all year?

By: chucker

chucker — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:05:21 +0000

This is what concerns me to LNOF. Getting rid of Brodziak really didn’t make any sense to me at all. At least he was in training for the fourth line centreman position and doing fairly well. Now we’re starting from scratch.

Also, yes it’s ironic that the whipping boys of a few years back are what this team now seems to need most although Stoll’s salary is ridiculous in my opinion. A bad PK will make Khabi not so good. Chicago had a great PK. *takes a tums*

By: LateNightOilFan

LateNightOilFan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:58:47 +0000

Well chucker, Malhotra (and Betts) are still floating around in UFA land….getting cheaper by the day I imagine.

The PK scares me, I have visions of Horc being over-worked on the dot plus Habby’s pk sv% has been worse than Roli’s 3 of the last 4 years, including last year when CHI was a better team and 18th in team PK vs the Oilers 27th. So I guess our ability to improve the PK lies in the hands of the new coaches.

By: Horpensky

Horpensky — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:24:16 +0000

Our biggest whipping boys two seasons ago: Marty Reasoner and Jarret Stoll. Reasoner was being replaced by Brodziak (who is gone now) and Stoll had a terrible season and was being pushed to third line duties by Gagner. Now it seems like both these faceoff/pk aces are being missed

By: OilerTyler

OilerTyler — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:29:12 +0000

I thought Visnovsky didn’t kill penalties, i could be wrong though.