Ray Bennett was fired by the Avalanche last season after the power play he ran went an abysmal 3-for-22 in a seven-game first-round loss to the Stars, following a regular season in which it converted at 24.79 percent.
That regular-season number is ho-hum for Colorado, which was last below 24 percent during the shortened 2020-21 season, so it didn’t add much to Bennett’s case that his unit had simply done what it always does through 82 games. The Islanders, for whom Bennett is now coaching the power play after being hired as an assistant on Patrick Roy’s bench, would jump for joy at far less than that.
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