It really doesn’t take a hockey expert to figure out the main reason why the Nashville Predators are sitting at home watching the Stanley Cup Final instead of playing in it. All one has to do is click onto an NHL statistics page & look at the Predators’ power play percentage for the six games they participated in during the 2018-19 postseason.
No, that isn’t a typo. Nashville had fifteen power play opportunities during their first round series with the Dallas Stars. Twenty-nine minutes & forty six seconds spread out over six games. Basically half of a game.