With John Klingberg added to Guy Boucher\u0027s new power play and Auston Matthews on penalty kill, special teams could be lethal for Leafs.
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On Saturday, the defenceman had his first chance at the controls, with Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares and William Nylander bobbing and weaving beneath him.“We’d talked about my role, where I’d fit in right away,” Klingberg said after the No. 1 unit’s first dedicated special teams’ practice of training camp at the Ford Centre. “The chance to play with world-class players is a huge thing, very exciting.
Since signing Tavares in 2018 to load up a power play that already featured three first round draft pick forwards, Toronto has been consistently potent, leading the NHL at 27.3% two years ago, and 26.0% in 2022-23, second to the Connor McDavid-Leon Draisaitl strike force in Edmonton .THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLYUnlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account.
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