Which NHL clubs draw the most power plays?
2026-27 · measured from NHL shift charts and play-by-play
Tampa Bay draws the most power plays, 7.00 a game; Calgary draws the fewest, 1.00. Everything downstream on this site — unit minutes, shares, first-unit goals — happens inside the power plays counted here.
Opportunity is the one term of first-unit value a coach does not control from the bench: it is earned on the ice, a drawn penalty at a time.
How this is measured
Power plays drawn per game is the league's official count of opportunities, divided by games played. The player column is the club's leader in penalties drawn, from the league's official penalty data — the skaters who create the power plays the units then spend.
This table covers the 2026-27 regular season · updated nightly.
| club | PP opps/gm | club PP min/gm | most power plays drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBL Tampa Bay | 7.00 | 12:54 | Ilya Mikheyev · 2 |
| CAR Carolina | 6.00 | 8:38 | Shayne Gostisbehere · 2 |
| FLA Florida | 6.00 | 11:10 | Lars Eller · 2 |
| BUF Buffalo | 5.00 | 6:35 | Jack Quinn · 2 |
| COL Colorado | 5.00 | 6:35 | Nathan MacKinnon · 2 |
| SEA Seattle | 5.00 | 8:06 | Jordan Eberle · 1 |
| EDM Edmonton | 4.50 | 6:52 | Mattias Ekholm · 2 |
| LAK Los Angeles | 4.00 | 8:00 | Brandt Clarke · 3 |
| MIN Minnesota | 4.00 | 7:01 | Kirill Kaprizov · 1 |
| NJD New Jersey | 4.00 | 8:00 | Brenden Dillon · 1 |
| NSH Nashville | 4.00 | 8:00 | Alexander Kerfoot · 1 |
| NYI New York | 4.00 | 8:00 | Casey Cizikas · 1 |
| PIT Pittsburgh | 4.00 | 6:50 | Rickard Rakell · 1 |
| SJS San Jose | 4.00 | 5:48 | Collin Graf · 2 |
| TOR Toronto | 3.50 | 6:57 | Nicholas Paul · 2 |
| CBJ Columbus | 3.00 | 3:28 | Erik Gudbranson · 1 |
| UTA Utah | 3.00 | 2:54 | MacKenzie Weegar · 1 |
| VGK Vegas | 3.00 | 5:01 | Parker Wotherspoon · 1 |
| CHI Chicago | 2.50 | 4:46 | Ian Cole · 1 |
| VAN Vancouver | 2.50 | 3:35 | Jamieson Oleksiak · 1 |
| MTL Montreal | 2.00 | 4:00 | Jake Evans · 1 |
| PHI Philadelphia | 2.00 | 4:00 | Simon Benoit · 2 |
| NYR New York | 1.50 | 2:16 | Alexis Lafrenière · 2 |
| BOS Boston | 1.00 | 2:00 | Hampus Lindholm · 1 |
| CGY Calgary | 1.00 | 2:00 | Kevin Bahl · 1 |
Frequently asked
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