Jamie Drysdale<\/a>\u00a0at the point should also help.\u00a0<\/p>\n“He has a lot of tools that a power play quarterback needs,” Briere said. “It’s just now making it happen. How does he make it happen? How does he take it to the next level?”<\/p>\n
That comes from shooting the puck more, which Drysdale has been working on during the offseason. He had 101 shots last season, tied for 68th among NHL defensemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think there’s a lot of little things that I can work on, just when I get the puck, head fake, looking off, things like that, a little bit more deceptiveness, and obviously the main kicker is just shooting more,” he said. “Been pretty continuously working on my shot over the last year and throughout this summer. Something that I’m going to come in confident with and use as a weapon, and kind of take it from there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. How does the power play get better? After finishing last in the League (15.7 percent) for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-269254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}