On the one hand, Boston Bruins rookie defenseman and power-play point patroller Torey Krug entered Monday night’s action without having slugged home a single man-advantage conversion since Oct. 26.
On the other hand, Krug assisted on five-on-four net-front specialist Zdeno Chara’s conversion to draw a 1-1 knot en route to a regulation tie/overtime win over Carolina this past Saturday. That gives him a hand in two of Boston’s last four power-play profits and three of the last six since his third and most recent extra-man goal.
On the other hand, those six strikes have come over a lengthy span of 12 games, 24 days and 27 opportunities.
Boston has sprinkled its last four conversions over a full two weeks, eight games and 16 chances.
That lack of consistency serves to cloud the fact that two of the last three goals finally came from a forward (Patrice Bergeron Nov. 9 and Reilly Smith Nov. 18). So, too, does the fact that those connections bookended a three-game team-wide cold spell (although it did not help that the B's only garnered a single man advantage Nov. 11, 14 and 15).
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Are the Boston Bruins Too Reliant on Defensemen for Power-Play Production?
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