Vegas Golden Knights. Power Play explodes, other takeaways
2. Power Play Goes Off
It has been a strange year for the Vegas Golden Knights Special Teams.
Starting the year off hot, both the penalty kill and the power play has dipped somewhat throughout the regular season, although the PP has remained fairly consistent.
However, the Golden Knights had gone a woeful 1-for-18 on the power play in their previous five games before Thursday.
But, as we all know, it is all about how you respond and the man advantage absolutely went off against the Blues.
They went a nearly perfect 4-for-5 including tallying the goal that made it a one-goal game on the power play, in addition to the game-winner in overtime that was also scored on the man advantage.
The top power play unit in particularly had themselves a night with Max Pacioretty,
, William Karlsson, Nate Schmidt and
all recording multi-point nights on the man advantage.
That is how you should execute on the power play and the Golden Knights should be executing on the man advantage every night given the weapons they’ve got.
Plus, it was also a good night for the penalty kill that has struggled of late, going a perfect 0/2 on the PK against the 11th ranked power play in the NHL.