The Free Press’s Helene St. James posted an article which discusses the Red Wings’ in-progress power play this morning:
Day 3 of training camp for the Detroit Red Wings was a special-teams affair at Centre Ice Arena, where the depth added over the summer permeated especially onto the man-advantage groupings. As has been his daily discourse since camp began Thursday, coach Derek Lalonde noted it’s a “work in progress,” but at least it is a beginning.
Newcomer Jeff Petry ran the first power play unit on display Saturday, with Lucas Raymond, Robby Fabbri and J.T. Compher, plus Andrew Copp serving in the net-front role. In the second group, Moritz Seider ran a unit with Dylan Larkin, Shayne Gostisbehere and Alex DeBrincat plus David Perron serving in the net-front role. That left the likes of Rasmussen, Daniel Sprong, Jonatan Berggren and Jake Walman on units rounded out with AHL players.
“You will see many different looks,” Lalonde said Saturday. “We will probably give Shayne some looks up top running a power play. We’ll probably get Lucas on both half walls.
“There are a lot more options. We had four power play units today, all with some guys in some comfortable spots. We wanted to get Mo a day on top. I just thought he really progressed with some of his simplicity and decision-making and play on the power play. He really progressed.”
In addition to Petry (who shoots right), there are other options to run a unit.
“We feel Jake Walman, can,” Lalonde said. “Petry has done it with some success in this league already. So there’s all different kinds of looks and combinations. But these are really good problems to be working through.”
