The St. Louis Blues power-play has been the team’s greatest asset this year. They’ve been truly dynamic, scoring 16 goals in 61 power-play opportunities. This gives them a 26.1 percent success rate, the third-best of any NHL team this year. In her latest piece, Ariel Melendez dives more into the unit’s role in the team’s recent success.
The power-play’s dominance goes to show how tremendous a job general manager Doug Armstrong did when he signed Marc Savard this summer. Savard joined the team as an assistant coach with one goal in mind: fixing the power-play.