Bruins Have Potentially Discovered a New Top Power-Play Unit
If one thing has been a weak spot for the Boston Bruins this season, it's been the team's lack of success on the power play, but a new unit showed some positives.
Since January 1st, the Bruins man advantage has only converted 22 times out of 131 opportunities, and rank seventh worst in the league in that span with a 16.3% success rate. While their 131 power plays are the fifth most in the league in that time.
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Boston's top unit went 2 for 3 on the power play, and surprisingly, it didn't include veteran's Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand. As Scott McLaughlin of WEEI shared after the Bruins 4-3 win, head coach Jim Montgomery may have found a new top unit:
Pastrnak and McAvoy led the way with one goal each on the man advantage, while Zacha and Bertuzzi each had one assist. What has made the biggest difference for Montgomery, was putting the ''Czech Trio'' of Pasta, Zacha and Krejci together.
Another factor for the Bruins is keeping their best offensive weapon in Pastrnak on the ice the whole time:
On Sunday afternoon, Boston managed to score once in their two power play opportunities against the Blues, too. Bertuzzi netted his seventh goal of the season, with assists from Pastrnak and Lindholm.
The real question is whether Montgomery and his staff will keep this unit together, even with captain Bergeron back in the lineup.
Check out McLaughlin's full article in the link below:
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AVRIL 2 | 116 ANSWERS Bruins Have Potentially Discovered a New Top Power-Play Unit Should the Bruins keep this PP unit together? | ||
| Yes | 92 | 79.3 % |
| No | 24 | 20.7 % |
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