A baseball team that has a 0.037 batting average isn’t going to win any games. A football team that converts touchdowns only 3.7 percent of the time in the red zone, or a basketball team that misses 26 of its 27 shots likely won’t win either.
The Bruins are have scored just once in their last 27 power-play opportunities over the last 11 games, also losing five of their last six games.
On Saturday, the Bruins will be squaring off against the Maple Leafs in Toronto, and likely needing to end the power-play drought to get the win. For them to do so, Tomas Kaberle, who returns to Toronto for the first time since the trade, and his teammates will need to step up and utilize their one man advantages.
The Bruins acquired the 33-year-old to improve the team’s dreadful power-play, which ranks 10th in power-play percentage and 13th for power-play goals in the Eastern Conference, but Kaberle has made little impact in such situations since his arrival. He has just three assists in 12 games with the Bruins, who are 2-for-32 on the power play since the trade.
Kaberle has certainly made the power play look better, with improved puck movement and possession time in the offensive zone, but ultimately the team is not scoring goals, struggling with its finishing touches around the net.
On a brighter note, Toronto ranks second-to-last in the conference with a 77.6 percent penalty-killing percentage, a statistic the Bruins need to take advantage of on Saturday night.
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