The Florida Panthers’ last season came to a premature end largely because of the abysmal play of their power play.
Five months later, not much has changed. The Panthers entered Tuesday with the fourth worst power-play percentage in the league and it got even worse in a 4-2 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Florida got 8:25 of power-play time — including 1:35 of 5-on-3 action — in a 10-minute stretch in the second period and the Blackhawks killed it all off and then, with a chance to complete a three-goal comeback in the third period, Florida failed another in the final seven minutes to stall its comeback bid in Chicago.
