Top 5 power plays 23-24 regular season.
1. Tampa Bay 28.6
2. Carolina 26.9
3. Rangers 26.4
4. Edmonton 26.3
5. Colorado 24.5
I don't know. If anyone here were to ask me if a 26.4 power play was okay I think I'd have to say yes, I'm fine with that. Some of the best offensive players in the league in those top 5 teams--Kucherov, McDavid, Draisatl, MacKinnon, Makar.
So I looked up what those top 5 teams did in the playoffs on the power play.
That goes like this:
1. Colorado 36.7
2. Edmonton 29.3
3. Rangers 24
4. Tampa Bay 20
5. Carolina 19.4
There wasn't a lot of drop-off with the Rangers power play which was killing it kind of in the Colorado/Edmonton range of % until they hit what was to become the Stanley Cup winner.
That said---Rangers only got 15 power plays in 6 games against the Panthers. The last game they only got 1. Part of that is the deeper teams go into playoffs it seems the more the refs put their whistles in their pockets but also the Rangers had a hard time generating any offense and were pinned in their own end a lot in that series. Rangers only scored one power play goal in those 15 chances. Our power play didn't do it against the Panthers yes but it didn't get lots of opportunity either and against a very good defensive team. Even splitting up the power play if you're only getting two a night odds are stacked against it anyway.