The Vancouver Canucks have been struggling on the power play all season long. Their 13.9 percent success rate ranks 29th in the league — only the Colorado Avalanche is even worse. You can be sure that’s not what Canucks management envisioned when they signed Loui Eriksson last summer.
A power-play unit with Henrik Sedin, Daniel Sedin and Eriksson was one of Team Sweden’s biggest assets during the 2016 World Cup of Hockey. But for whatever reason, it never worked out in Vancouver. Neither did other combinations.
Game after game, we witness Canucks power-play units that not only fail to execute plays, but they don’t even have ideas that would get them in scoring positions.