Avs_19
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A few tidbits on Bennett.
He was with the Blues for EJ's entire tenure. At some point he took over the PP duties, though by his own admission he came in as a video coach.
Coincidentally or not, EJ's two best seasons on the power play were in St Louis his first two years. Both in goals and points.
If you accumulate the PP% for teams from 2007-08 to 2016-17, where Bennett was the assistant coach, and presumably ran the PP most years except early on, and probably 2010-11 when he moved upstairs under Mellanby, their power play ranks 9th in the league over that time with 18.8%.
Over the course of the last three seasons, they're 2nd in the league on the PP with 21.7%.
They've been in the top 10 on the PP each year of the last four seasons.
http://www.nhl.com/stats/team?aggre...20162017&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=ppPctg
I don't know how much credit we can give Bennett for their PP without knowing what he actually did. Muller was in charge of the PP both years he was with the Blues and I believe it was either Wilson or Thomas last year. Has Bennett even been behind the bench since the year he moved upstairs?