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How Will Ken Hitchcock Improve the Stars Power Play?

Ken Hitchcock has a lot of things to figure out; line formations, defense pairings, personalities (Radulov vs. Roussel should be fun at practice*), the depth jenga tower Jim Nill has assembled for him on the 4th line, and where to eat a good burger.

And of course, Dallas’ power play.

Dallas has formed a reputation over the years of being an offensive powerhouse. This reputation, however, wasn’t valid last season. They’ve lost modest puck movers on the blueline since letting Alex Goligoski and Jason Demers go, and while Patrick Sharp, Ales Hemsky, and (to a lesser extent) Patrick Eaves were past their primes, they produced at a respectable clip when they weren’t injured.