Power Play Stacking: November 27th

On the other side, the Panthers have a strong power play facing a team that gets penalized a fair bit, with pedestrian numbers. Without Dadonov for the foreseeable future, their PP takes a small hit, and don’t expect any goals from the point – Keith Yandle is primarily a passer on the PP as they try to force the puck to the left for Jonathan Huberdeau. They don’t offer much more than a passing interest.

Pittsburgh’s penalty kill hasn’t been pretty this season, but that’s mostly just on poor goaltending. Allowing only 18HD chances per 60 and the 20th-least shots/60, they have a tougher test against a Flyers team that will shot it early and often and get to the dirty areas, but there’s not much interest in Philadelphia special teams in this game.

Montreal fires a ton of shots at even strength, and that doesn’t change when they have the extra attacker. They’ll fire the puck from anywhere, so if using MTL any of the top PP unit would be in play – but Bobrovsky is one of the best 4v5 netminders, and CBJ limits HD-chances fairly well although they also allow a bunch of shots. If not using Officer Bob in nets, MTL should be in consideration.

The Jets are in tough against a strong Wild PK, although Alex Stalock is an obvious downgrade from Devan Dubnyk. Most of the shots the Wild allow (both at 5v5 and 4v5) get funneled away from danger areas, so unless Stalock allows a lot of rebounds – always a possibility – the Jets don’t jump out.

Without Rickard Rakell, Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Kesler, and on and on, there’s not much interest in the Anaheim side of this game. The Blackhawks are pretty effective at taking point shots away which is how the Ducks force the puck to the net, so they’re a hard no tonight.