The Edmonton Oilers’ power play has been the best in the NHL over the past three seasons. And I believe, and many people believe, that they switched styles to take away some of the strength of, we call ours the downhill power play, our style of power play. “The penalty kill has changed to hinder the downhill power play over the last year or two. But it isn’t just as simple as saying put McDavid and Draisaitl on the ice and the power play will succeed. He’s a distributor, he’s a facilitator of the power play and it’s probably the most important job because if he doesn’t get it to them at the right spots, you’ll see a lot of stalls and slow downs on the power play.
