Ducks Need To Fix Their Power Play

from Eric Stephens of Ducks Blog, ...They?ve converted just seven times in 58 chances for a 12.1 percentage that?s 26th in the NHL after riding a third-ranked unit into the playoffs last season.

How can that be on a team that throws out a first unit of Selanne, the playmaking Ryan Getzlaf and first-rate finisher Corey Perry along with pure puck movers in Lubomir Visnovsky and Cam Fowler? Should Randy Carlyle consider making personnel changes?

The Ducks? coach has thought about that.

?That?s always a consideration,? Carlyle said Friday. ?I think you owe it to your players, the grouping that we have ? it?s pretty hard not to have Teemu Selanne, probably the third-leading power play goal scorer in the history of the league. Are you going to take him off the power play?

?Are you going to take Ryan Getzlaf off the power play? Are you going to take Corey Perry off the power play, the league MVP? I think we can maybe mix up the groupings again and maybe try to create a little bit more competition for the position for the ice time. And we?ve considered that.?

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