They are often times so bad and dysfunctional with the man advantage that it tends to feed life into their opponents and bring them to a different level. Even worse, just like the power play of a season ago this unit seems to be robbing the team of momentum in big moments. Even with the addition of Karlsson.Īs of Tuesday the Penguins are 25th in the league on the power play, converting on just 15.2 percent of their chances.
So far through the first two months of the season, not much has changed with this unit. There was some expectation that might change for the 2023-24 season thanks to the offseason addition of defenseman Erik Karlsson, one of the best power play quarterbacks of the modern era.
There were a lot of sources of frustration for the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 2022-23 NHL season, but one of the biggest had to be an underachieving power play unit that not only did not score enough, but also seemed to steal momentum away from the team in big moments.
