I Watched This Game: Canucks lose special teams battle to the Stars

Through the first two months of the season, the power play was on fire, scoring 25 goals on 87 opportunities for a 28.7% power play percentage. They had a strong stretch in late January too when they went 10-for-25 — a red-hot 40.0% success rate.

Another way of looking at the Canucks’ power play struggles over the past two months is that the Canucks have had one of the worst power plays in the NHL since trading away Andrei Kuzmenko. Elias Lindholm was supposed to slot into the first power play unit but after scoring two power play goals in his first game with the Canucks, he disappeared and now he’s out of the lineup with a mysterious injury.

Whatever the solution is, the Canucks need to find it in a hurry. The playoffs are less than a month away and even though the officiating standards tend to change in the postseason, the power play can still be a difference-maker. Whether or not the Canucks deserved all of the penalties called on them or deserved to get an extra power play or two themselves, they simply did not execute well enough on the three power plays they were given, managing just four shots on goal.

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