Columbus Blue Jackets: Power Play Deployment Costing Team Goals

The poor composition and deployment of the power play units is costing the Columbus Blue Jackets goals, and wins.

The power play is again in a rut. The Columbus Blue Jackets were 0-2 last night on the power play against the Vancouver Canucks and haven’t scored on their last 12 man advantages. The Jackets are converting at a 15.3% rate on the man advantage which is the sixth worst in the league.

Last night the Jackets power play was, once again, mixed and matched the units and had no success. The most used top unit had Cam Atkinson, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Nick Foligno and Alexander Wennberg as forwards and Seth Jones as the lone defenseman. The unit had little to no success. They struggled to…