from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press,
At 9.3%, it ranks 30th in the NHL, having converted four times on 43 opportunities. The unit was without four regulars when Merrill, Robby Fabbri, Filip Zadina and Sam Gagner were sidelined two weeks after testing positive for COVID-19 in the opening week of the season. But even as those players have returned, the power play continues to be on life support.
"We have to be more assertive and just simplify things a little bit,” Merrill said. “We have to get more pucks to the cage.