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Longer reads on how clubs actually use the power play. Every number in them is re-measured on each build, so an article written in November still tells you the truth in March.

Power-play time is a ticket, not a prize

3 September 2026 · Rich Jasinski

Two minutes of power play a night and the top 50 is closed to you; three minutes and it is still a coin flip. What actually separates the finishers, measured.

Ten seasons of power-play goals: what a career list hides

28 August 2026 · Rich Jasinski

Hold every skater to the same ten seasons and the power-play goal leaderboard reorders — with the cost of each goal beside it.

What a power play actually looks like: three assumptions, measured

28 August 2026 · Rich Jasinski

No club runs two defencemen on its top unit, the first unit takes three quarters of the ice time, and PP1 is a role rather than five players.

New hands on the NHL power play, 2026-27: the measured record

24 August 2026 · Rich Jasinski

Every 2026-27 coaching change on the power play, with each operator's measured record.

New faces on every power play: the 2026-27 roster diff, measured

24 August 2026 · Rich Jasinski

Every club's roster arrivals and departures, with each mover's measured PP record.

The anatomy of a power-play riser, measured over four seasons

24 August 2026 · Rich Jasinski

What the official record shows around every measured PP scoring jump: the pattern that repeats, and the folklore that does not.

The NHL power play, measured: 2025-26 in review

16 June 2026 · Rich Jasinski

All 32 first units, ranked and decomposed.

Ranking questions