Which PP1 players get almost no power play time?
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2026-27 · measured from NHL shift charts and play-by-play
15 skaters were measured on their club's first power-play unit in at least 40% of their games with a power play and still took less power-play time than four fifths of the other first-unit skaters in the league — under 2:57 a night. The least of them is Emmitt Finnie of Detroit, at 2:07.
A first-unit tag describes which five a skater shares ice with, not how much ice his club gives that five. These are the skaters where the label and the clock come apart.
Philip Broberg of St. Louis is the sharpest case: 2:12 of power-play time a night against 2:41 on the penalty kill.
How this is measured
A skater counts as a first-unit player here if he was credited to the first unit in at least 40% of his games with a power play, over at least 20 such games. Credit requires that he took most of his power-play ice with that unit and cleared the published floor. 77 skaters qualify on that definition; the ones listed are the bottom fifth of them by power-play time per game, which this season means under 2:57 a night.
This table covers the 2026-27 regular season · updated nightly.
| player | club | PP1 share | PP min/gm | PK time/gm | games |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emmitt Finnie | DET | 40% | 2:07 | 1:19 | 20 |
| Philip Broberg | STL | 55% | 2:12 | 2:41 | 20 |
| Gavin McKenna | TOR | 45% | 2:16 | 0:00 | 20 |
| Dylan Holloway | STL | 45% | 2:17 | 0:09 | 20 |
| Jake Neighbours | STL | 65% | 2:27 | 0:16 | 20 |
| Dmitry Orlov | SJS | 41% | 2:31 | 0:15 | 22 |
| Porter Martone | PHI | 73% | 2:35 | 0:00 | 22 |
| Mason McTavish | STL | 65% | 2:38 | 0:03 | 20 |
| Stephen Halliday | OTT | 52% | 2:46 | 0:00 | 21 |
| Pavel Dorofeyev | NYR | 85% | 2:46 | 0:00 | 20 |
| J.T. Miller | NYR | 75% | 2:49 | 1:10 | 20 |
| Jimmy Snuggerud | STL | 75% | 2:53 | 0:00 | 20 |
| Robert Thomas | STL | 75% | 2:56 | 1:29 | 20 |
| Neal Pionk | WPG | 67% | 2:56 | 2:02 | 21 |
| Jonathan Lekkerimaki | VAN | 67% | 2:57 | 0:00 | 21 |
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Measured from the NHL's own shift charts: 325 games in 2026-27.
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