{"id":444272,"date":"2026-11-01T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444272\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:14:10","slug":"florida-panthers-power-play-a-dominant-force-after-slow-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444272\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers Power Play: A Dominant Force after Slow Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUNRISE\u00a0\u2014 It seems like ages ago, but it has only been about three weeks since the Florida Panthers had the worst power play in the entire NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Panthers one may recall, scored one goal on their first 28 chances with the man advantage through their opening five games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Panthers lines: projected lineup and starting goalie \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time, neither\u00a0Brady Tkachuk<\/a>\u00a0nor\u00a0Sam Reinhart<\/a>\u00a0had scored \u2014 either on the power play or even strength.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the eight games which followed, Tkachuk has three power play goals and Reinhart a very impressive six, putting him in a tie with\u00a0Leon Draisaitl<\/a>\u00a0for the league lead.<\/p>\n

The power play continued a torrid pace with an exclamation point in a 5-2 win against Winnipeg<\/a> on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the first two attempts, Reinhart scored 17 seconds after the power play began;\u00a0Seth Jones<\/a>\u00a0scored only eight seconds into the next power play.<\/p>\n

Florida ended 2-5 on the power play, although the final chance one came with only 11 seconds left in the game when\u00a0Haydn Fleury\u00a0tripped up\u00a0Sandis Vilmanis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the game, Winnipeg coach\u00a0Scott Arneil\u00a0said his team, which has lost eight straight, made a great effort on their penalty kill but Florida\u2019s attack is relentless.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re extremely hot right now. They\u2019ve been on a roll,\u2019\u2019 Arniel said.<\/p>\n

The power play now stands at 24.2 percent, ninth in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since Brady Tkachuk broke his schneid with a hat trick against Columbus on October 13, the Panthers power play has chugged along at a 38.2 percent pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Power play success has been key to the Panthers\u2019 current win streak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe special team game has been the key piece right now that\u2019s allowed us to survive without those two guys (Sasha Barkov\u00a0and\u00a0Brad Marchand),\u201d coach\u00a0Paul Maurice\u00a0commented Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a pair of wins against Winnipeg, Florida feasted, going 5-10 while with the advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have good players,\u2019\u2019 Maurice said. \u201cI think\u00a0Jamie Kompon\u00a0and his power play group have done a great job really changing the foundation of what they try to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou spend 2 1\/2 weeks working on a power play with Barkov on it, Marchand on it, and they both disappear within the first three games.\u00a0 It took us three or four games to recover from that. They found their rhythm and Seth Jones has been a huge, huge driver \u2026 He\u2019s got lots of confidence up top. \u00a0He\u2019s offensively as strong as there is in the league from the blueline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, who had a goal and two assists Friday, bringing his October total to a franchise record 18 points for a defenseman in a single month.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust puck movement. Quick puck movement. Putting the penalty kill in positions to make decisions,\u2019\u2019 Jones said when talking about the success on the power play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re scoring in many different ways: Low plays, high plays, in to Reino. We\u2019re dangerous in a lot of different ways but just moving it quick. Big start on breakouts is key.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detroit comes to town on Monday with a 66.7 percent penalty kill success rate which ranks 29th in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Panthers may have a chance to fatten up their power play numbers even further.<\/p>\n

ON DECK: GAME No. 15<\/p>\n

DETROIT RED WINGS at FLORIDA PANTHERS<\/p>\n

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\t\tAlan Greenberg has been a freelance hockey journalist for over 40 years. He has written for almost every major … More about Alan Greenberg, FHN Sr. Writer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE\u00a0\u2014 It seems like ages ago, but it has only been about three weeks since the Florida Panthers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6502,80319,6501,28,30,29,16995,92353,173102,54023,173103,54026,68115],"class_list":["post-444272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brad-marchand","tag-brady-tkachuk","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-panthers-power-play","tag-sam-reinhart","tag-sandis-vilmanis","tag-seth-jones","tag-winnipeg-jets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}