from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press,
“You’re more evaluating individuals than you’re evaluating the unit,” coach Jeff Blashill said Friday. “What we’re trying to do is put individuals in spots where we think they can be successful. That’s one of our biggest things on the power play. So we’re putting them in those spots and then they have to execute. The challenge is they may have only practiced that morning in a pregame skate, so you don’t have a whole lot of chemistry.
“Right now, we have a whole lot of guys trying out for spots on the power play and if a guy is not excelling in a certain spot on the power play, we might try him somewhere else as the camp moves along.