Brayden McNabb scrolled through the mental Rolodex from his hockey career to put the Golden Knights’ depth of penalty killers into context.
The defenseman came up blank.
“I don’t know if I’ve played on teams where there’s three or four (forward) units and they just roll them over,” McNabb said.
The Knights’ bottom-six is full of forwards who are capable of playing short-handed. Rather than having them fight for the minutes, coach Gerard Gallant is spreading the penalty-killing ice time throughout the group.
After eight games, the Knights have six forwards on pace to log more than 100 minutes of time on the ice while short-handed.