I’ve said this before but the biggest improvement that could be made to the powerplay is having a right-handed sniper. The limitations on cross-ice plays and not getting shots off quickly enough were a big result of virtually every skilled forward on the team being left-handed. Gaudreau, monahan, ferland, backlund, tkachuk, jankowski, and Bennett are all skilled forwards IMO. I know Versteeg is skilled and a right shot but he always played the right side in the powerplay instead of his off-wing... plus he isn’t known as a sniper.
There aren’t a lot of guys available that fit the bill for what I’ve described but here is the best that I can think of: kovalchuk, Kessel, iginla (I always want to bring him back so that’s probably my fanboy side talking). Other option is to hope Foo could produce in that spot... it was refreshing seeing one-timers from him at he end of the season.
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